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Treasure Auction 36  7-8 Nov 2024
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Starting price: 40 000 USD
Current bid: 47 500 USD
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Quarter cut of a gold disk ingot, 952 grams, marked with fineness XIIIo (13.25K), ex-1715 Fleet. Roughly 4" x 3" x 1". A hefty chunk of gold broken from a thick disk of somewhat low-karat gold (perhaps from melted-down native artifacts?), typical of similar finds from the Douglass Beach site of the 1715 Fleet, including, notably, this piece's twin showing same fineness marking in the famous "Treasure of the Spanish Main" auction of Real Eight Company holdings by Parke-Bernet of New York in February 1967, namely lot 25, which, according to notes made by another bidder in his catalog at that sale, Dr. John K. Lattimer, was purchased by the Smithsonian Institution. The current ingot shows a curious ¼" chisel mark (very clean) to start the cut, the rest of the separation crudely broken and craggy, with light pinkish coral and sediment now residing in the crevices, also with a spot of white coral in bubble-pit on marked side, very bold fineness marking (and nothing else) in center. In general, gold or even silver ingots from the 1715 Fleet are rare, as most of the cargo was in the form of coins. From the 1715 Fleet, with generic certificate.
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