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Large silver bar #197, Class Factor 1.0, approx. 60 lb troy (pieces removed from bottom).

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Coins: Shipwreck Ingots Start Price:15,000.00 USD Estimated At:25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD
Large silver bar #197, Class Factor 1.0, approx. 60 lb troy (pieces removed from bottom).
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Today's melt (April 11, 2011) Value with silver at $41.2 is: $29,500


Large silver bar #197, Class Factor 1.0, approx. 60 lb troy (pieces removed from bottom). Approx. 14" x 5-1/4" x 3". This piece represents a sort of "halfway" between an intact bar and the "slices" created by cutting off all but the marked top and melting the rest down to make "genuine Atocha silver" replica pieces, which is what the owner was doing, just little by little, as the bottom side is crudely chipped away toward one end, which nevertheless revealed an interesting internal bubble hole. The top side is fairly well marked, with manifest number DCCL, fineness IIUCCCLXXX followed by unclear assayer cartouche, owner's "sigla" A with extra horizontal bars (Ucarraga), co-owner's "sigla" diamond-topped T, silvermaster's mark V (de Vreder) and two tax stamps, plus the usual "double scoop" assayer's "bite" in the middle, nicely toned with a minimum of corrosion. From the Atocha (1622), with original Fisher photo-certificate #197.