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Complete Colombian gold bar, 1061 grams, with markings of foundry/assayer SARGOSA / PECARTA, Atocha

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Shipwreck Ingots Start Price:80,000.00 USD Estimated At:80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD
Complete Colombian gold bar, 1061 grams, with markings of foundry/assayer SARGOSA / PECARTA, Atocha
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Complete Colombian gold bar, 1061 grams, with markings of foundry/assayer SARGOSA / PECARTA, fineness XXI: (21.5K), and tax stamps, from the Atocha (1622). Approx. 10-3/4" long, 1" wide and 1/2" deep. A very desirable complete bar with bold markings, the fineness (in 5 places) particularly prominent but also with no fewer than 10 partial tax stamps and a very clear cartouche with SARGOSA above PECARTA, in reference to the gold mine at Zaragoza, Colombia, and an assayer (or similar official) whose exact name has not been determined (the letters of which were monogrammed together to make "PECARTA"). Zaragoza, on the shores of the Rio Nechi in the province of Antioquia, was home to one of the most prolific gold mines in the early 1600s, producing some 20 million pesos of gold from 1590 to 1645, and was represented by a caja real (royal treasury office) since 1582. One end of the bar shows both a chiseling and a scooping where the assayer removed pieces for testing. Overall the bar is remarkably straight and even, very attractive and impressive, a real trophy for any collection. From the Atocha (1622), with Fisher photo-certificate #85A-GB045, listed in Fisher online database by its tag # 1567-1.


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