Collectible Silver Bullion

Meltdown

Not sure if this is off topic or not, but I need to find some information about rare and collectible silver bullion.
I have a few pieces that are rare and would like to know more about them. I know there is a book published, but is there a website
I can get the information also?

Thanks in advance.

Animalkeeper

First, I suggest you tell us what the pieces you have are.

However, "collectible silver bullion" means, to me at last, American Silver Eagles. To you it means?

ricko

Pictures would help a lot as well... Cheers, RickO

Meltdown

Mostly ingot and round bullion.
I have some antique plain jane looking Aurora stamped silver ingots, Also some greyhound association rounds, some first edition Watergate ingots... etc.

Meltdown

Here's a few hasty pics...

Animalkeeper

Wow!! Those are not at all what I collect, so I can't be of much help here. However, I am always interested in books for my library so I await what others might offer. Cool coin/ingots.

edix2001

Good ol' Bozo!

Bossman88

If my memory is correct I believe the Bozo the Clown ingot was given to the Grand Prize Winners on the local Chicago daytime TV program? They picked children from the crowd and to toss ping pong balls into six buckets and each bucket had a prize with the 6th bucket holding lots of prizes and the ingot.

cladking

There's a collectors organization which probably still exists. Maybe the name will come
to me later but I believe "national" and "art bar" were in the title.

The demand has dropped so sharply for these that only the scarcest pieces still bring
much premium. I saw a 1972 Xmas bar in the melt bin yesterday. This was all the rage
thirty years ago.

Meltdown

<< <i>If my memory is correct I believe the Bozo the Clown ingot was given to the Grand Prize Winners on the local Chicago daytime TV program? They picked children from the crowd and to toss ping pong balls into six buckets and each bucket had a prize with the 6th bucket holding lots of prizes and the ingot. >>



Really? That is interesting, thanks. I wonder how many were minted?

nutz4coinz

Animalkeeper, gotta go one step further....OP wants info on RARE and collectible silver bullion. OP HAS rare collectible bullion. Rare bullion to me is that 100000000000 kilo manhole cover the RCM made. Unless he is referring to, like, MS70 anything...I am stumped, to be honest. I didnt know bullion could be RARE and collectible unless it was platinum

cladking

<< <i>Animalkeeper, gotta go one step further....OP wants info on RARE and collectible silver bullion. OP HAS rare collectible bullion. Rare bullion to me is that 100000000000 kilo manhole cover the RCM made. Unless he is referring to, like, MS70 anything...I am stumped, to be honest. I didnt know bullion could be RARE and collectible unless it was platinum >>




They've been making silver bars since before the pyramids were built.

These have an extraordinarily high attrition but there are many that are rare and collectible.

Have you priced a 1995-W silver eagle recently?

nutz4coinz

Ok, I stand corrected. THAT kinda stuff IS rare AND collectible. I apologize if the OP took offense, none was intended. But I GOTTA say, that BOZO piece is VERY cool!!!

As an aside, being a BIG fan of Nixon, his 'reign' (why not use that word, he DID want to be king of the world!), and his fall from grace, to being a respected statesman prior to his death, I would LOVE to find one of those Watergate pieces!!!

Meltdown

There are a few Watergate pieces. Some of them depict everyone involved in jail stripes with ball and chains, another has the hear no evil, speak no evil monkeys. They are pretty neat.

BECOKA

These are very cool. Not at all what I expected when I opened the thread.

Sorry no clue on where to find additional info.

cladking

<< <i>...I would LOVE to find one of those Watergate pieces!!! >>




I have one struck in copper from cancelled dies. It's a different version though. I have a collection of things marked as 999 silver but aren't.

Meltdown

ttt , still hoping for some info.

thanks.

cladking

Try google.

Old Coin World Article

mrearlygold

I've liked art bars from the first time I started buying them which was a long time ago ( 1978 ). There's quite a large collector base for these and now with the new books launched by Archie Kidd, it's growing quite a bit as more and more information becomes available.

Whitby

2 of the Water Gate gang bars are on e bay now......

mrearlygold

<< <i>2 of the Water Gate gang bars are on e bay now...... >>




These are the companion bars struck in bronze:

OneFineCoin

Bossman wrote

<< <i>If my memory is correct I believe the Bozo the Clown ingot was given to the Grand Prize Winners on the local Chicago daytime TV program? They picked children from the crowd and to toss ping pong balls into six buckets and each bucket had a prize with the 6th bucket holding lots of prizes and the ingot. >>



re: bozo ingot
Im sure they were minted under license, so, I believe Channel 9 WGN in Chicago would have some archive info on it. No other mintage mark?
At the minimun they would authenticate if they were the source.. I've used their interns for other searches and they usually are quite the info source.

Bullion(Art?) bars were pushed hard in the 70's because of a massive profit motive.. that is until we found out they were just spot price items.

StampAlarm

I have a Watergate and CIA Snooper 1 oz bars. Just got them from Apmex as generic .999 1 OZ special sale category.

In other words the cheaper stuff. I don't know if I lucked out. My Watergate bar is different design.

direwolf1972

The Watergate bar is neat. I really like the Bozo bar though. I remember watching the show in the 70's when I was a kid. I cant remember the specific prizes for bucket 6.

mojoman

Nice bullion coins



<< <i>If my memory is correct I believe the Bozo the Clown ingot was given to the Grand Prize Winners on the local Chicago daytime TV program >>



OK,I cant belive I am telling anyone this........ when I was younger, in the cubscouts we went to the Bozo show in Windsor,Ont and guess who got picked to be Butchie boy??????yeap it was me. But all I got was a trunk full of toys , I was just getting into coins then, But the toys was neat I have a photo somewhere at my parents house in one of the stacks and stacks of photo albums