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From the publisher's website: SPANISH TREASURE BARS From New World Shipwrecks (Volume One), by Alan K. Craig and Ernest J. Richards, Jr., combines the many years of numismatic and historic study by these two acknowledged scholars -and their experience in their fields- to bring the reader a detailed -yet understandable- overview of this subject. In 228 8.5" x 11" softbound pages, Craig and Richards ably explain what is known to date regarding treasure ingots, accenting the text with over 300 illustrations plus a 42-page "spread sheet" of data on 963 of the silver bars recovered from Nuestra Señora de Atocha. Charts, maps, photos (18 in color), and drawings depict the bars, people who found them, the New World regions where they were made, and details of their markings.