^Lot 59 Lot of five gold bits, from 0.03 to 0.20 gram each (total 0.36 gram), 16K to 18K fine, ex-"Dry Tortu

Lot of five gold bits, from 0.03 to 0.20 gram each (total 0.36 gram), 16K to 18K fine, ex-"Dry Tortugas Wreck" (ca. 1622), Oceans Odyssey Plate. Each no more than 1/8". These little bits are not natural nuggets but rather leftover fragments that resulted when large ingots were cut into coin-like pieces (like the previous lot), certainly too valuable to be discarded in their time but also not worth re-melting and re-assaying, instead left as "small change" for little transactions. Each comes with its own original certificate, and two of the larger bits are featured in the same photo as the previous lot in the original publication on the finds from what was eventually identified as the Buen Jesús y Nuestra Señora del Rosario of the 1622 Fleet. Despite the challenge of testing such diminutive pieces, we were able to get XRF readings of about 16K to 18K. Small cut-marks are visible on one. From the "Dry Tortugas Wreck" (ca. 1622), with original Seahawk certificates 90-1A-474.0002, -628.0000, -2538.0008, -3437.0213, and -3437.0214, two of which are plated on page 73 of Oceans Odyssey 3 (2013), ed. by Greg Stemm and Sean Kingsley.