H & M old pour bar, anyone know what the H&M represents?
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5 ounce silver bar.
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A quick google search shows Homestake Mining and also Highland Mint
Homestake seems to be the more vintage, although most of those stamps I see are HMC
https://allengelhard.com/homestake-mining-company/
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Highland Mint out of Florida
Homestake seems more refined.
I couldn't find an example that was closer to the HM bar.
The number 5 doesn't lend to a Homestake bar, so I pretty much rulled that out.
Looks to good for someone's hand poured unfinished copy though.
In my opinion
Too vintage for a highland mint.
I did however run across this blog.
https://vintagepouredbar.com
interesting
So many vintage old pours I've never seen.
Not from Homestake. Nothing about it (fonts, bar style) looks like anything they have produced over the years. Check out the Homestake Mining page on the All Engelhard website for examples of what Homestake bars are out there...
https://allengelhard.com/homestake-mining-company/
mbogoman
https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/classic-issues-colonials-through-1964/zambezi-collection-trade-dollars/7345Asesabi Lutho
I did check out the allengelhard site.
Great reference site, hats off to those guys.
Someone put the time in to pour the bar...I dont think the H M is for handmade
Thanks for posting the link to that blog (which I had not seen before).
The blog helped me identify the maker of two bars (the bottom two in this photo):
designscomputed.com/coin_pics/bars_misc.jpg
The top two bars I already identified some time ago.
The middle two remain a mystery ("LSMI" and "M2" in circle).
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