Watch List notes:

Cut gold bar endpiece, 129 grams, marked with fineness XIX-dot (19-1/4K), ex-"Golden Fleece Wreck" (ca. 1550). About 2" x 1" x 3/8". A neat little "thumb" of gold with bright and lustrous surfaces, the cut end with clean chisel and break, the rounded (uncut) end with bold full fineness in bordered boxes (one with XIX and the other with a dot) at the very tip, small enough to be used as a form of coinage in its time (since no gold coins were being produced in the colonies) but big enough to still have the flavor of a "finger bar" ingot. From the "Golden Fleece Wreck" (ca. 1550), with certificate.


Estimate: 10000 - 15000 USD