With its elegantly curved spout, detailed engravings, and pine cone-shaped ornamental lid topper, a 250-year-old sterling silver coffeepot sold earlier this year for nearly half a mil at Sotheby's, ...

This ingot might have been cast from melted down booty or lots of little pieces of 'hack silver'. Whatever it was made from it was melted down into an ingot to make it easy to transport.