I have never handled any of the alleged CSA silver ingots, but based solely upon the pictures shown, my gut instinct is that they are modern fantasies

I personally do not " like" the CSA ingots and discount the excavation story. But I'm going strictly on gut instinct, appearance and experience. There is little reason to believe that these bars are “real”. They possess almost no attributes that would have been present from the period.

This subject is very fascinating, and now goes back a few years, coincidently to the time when I was researching the Dahlonega Mint closure while working there for a client. A few months after my digging into archives that hadn’t been seen in decades or more, I received a call from a dealer in Minnesota that had just been offered the earlier CSA ingots. I saw the photos, and immediately had an “opinion” (not positive). The seller, though, was very good at marketing, and soon (a week or 2 later) I got a call from History Channel on them.

I tried to enlist them for a story, because there is a good one here. But ultimately, they weren’t interested in doing a story on fake stuff (my guess). Yes, there was bullion missing from Dahlonega (not little five oz bars), and it never showed up in Milledgeville where it was supposed to go, nor did the people who had it in a wagon.

Highway robbery? Doubtful. Theft by the wagon team? Likely. They disappeared from view……..