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It's Finally Friday!!! What'd you get this week?

MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 8,792 ✭✭✭✭✭

I'm pretty excited about this 10oz bar!
It's a scarce one with wonderful patina.


I also picked up these hexagon ingots just for fun.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I did get this one from a forum member.... AH Kennedy.... Cheers, RickO

  • USMC_6115USMC_6115 Posts: 3,005 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just some Silver Proof Sets:



  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,189 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,660 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 22, 2020 2:19PM


    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,558 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Some Dutch silver for melt at my LCS.

    They are 95% silver, dated 1866.

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  • SimpleCollectorSimpleCollector Posts: 536 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’m going shopping tomorrow...you will have to wait and see!

  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nothing for me this week. Just having fun playing with other people's toys. Melted 32 lots of gold for dealers and processed a great diamond lot.


  • MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 8,792 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What an interesting Job Jinx! Do you ever cry just a little when you see cool stuff getting smelted? Do you ever get the option to buy it before scrapping?

  • RonBRonB Posts: 636 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1732 8 Reales Mexico Silver Cob
    -Just a dollar back then..
    Pocket change?


    Collector of Classic US Coins
  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Meltdown said:
    What an interesting Job Jinx! Do you ever cry just a little when you see cool stuff getting smelted? Do you ever get the option to buy it before scrapping?

    Every now and then there are neat items, rarely anything worth buying, but it does happen.
    One of my favorites was a reliquary containing a bone shard of Saint John Neumann. So knowing coins, jewelry, flatware and antiques has come in handy, bringing in quite a bit of extra money by picking gems out of junk.

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like Melty's thread better :)

    Bits and pieces this week: One nicely chopmarked 1784 8 reale, two later First Mexican Republic 8 reales, and a very cool, somewhat scarce 5 mark piece from Salzburg (Germany) dated 1876. Also a few whimsical sterling silver corn on the cob holders by Webster, pre-1950:

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,523 ✭✭✭✭✭

    At the LCS got a 10 oz silver bar, common, and a 1 oz silver John Pershing bar and a 1oz silver assay office round all for melt. Bought Wednesday and already the price is up. The only gold he had was krands so I just got a little silver.

  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,558 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 22, 2020 6:17PM

    Got this spoon today in a melt bin for melt. A Tiffany & Co. sterling silver tea spoon Circa 1910. It’s pretty banged up which is probably why it was melt. Can’t complain it’s my first piece of Tiffany flatware/hollowware.

    Any suggestions on making it look better?


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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,077 ✭✭✭✭✭

    making it look better is an impossible job on that

    Current maintainer of Stone's Master List of Favorite Websites // My BST transactions
  • LukeMarshallLukeMarshall Posts: 1,982 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MsMorrisine said:
    making it look better is an impossible job on that

    Tap it on a steel table and use a ball peen hammer on the inside, you may end up with a cool hammered look

    It's all about what the people want...

  • MilesWaitsMilesWaits Posts: 5,356 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Now riding the swell in PM's and surf.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,133 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Kliao---That spoon looks like it was caught in a garbage disposal. It's beyond repair.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,558 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:
    Kliao---That spoon looks like it was caught in a garbage disposal. It's beyond repair.

    Could have been. I’m happy to get Tiffany for melt anyway.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,133 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Kliao said:

    @PerryHall said:
    Kliao---That spoon looks like it was caught in a garbage disposal. It's beyond repair.

    Could have been. I’m happy to get Tiffany for melt anyway.

    Agree. It's hard to go wrong buying any PM's at melt.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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