^Lot 64 Small cut piece of a silver "splash" ingot, 0.93 oz troy (28.93 grams), with partial tax stamp

Small cut piece of a silver "splash" ingot, 0.93 oz troy (28.93 grams), with partial tax stamp, ex-unidentified ca.-1554 wreck off Santo Domingo. Roughly 1" x ½" x 3/8". A thick, interior segment in rectangular shape with all four sides broken rather than chiseled, intentionally cut to include most of a small circular tax stamp (albeit unreadable), used in its time as a "plata corriente" coin (the equivalent of an 8 reales, more or less), but possibly adulterated with lead, as shown by XRF results, which average about 95% fine silver overall, dark gray in color. From an unidentified wreck of the Spanish 1554 Fleet sunk off Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.