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One Gram....One Thousand Grams...

adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
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(and an ASE thrown in too)

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  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    that is so cool in such a tiny way!
  • BlackBeardBlackBeard Posts: 1,064 ✭
    That's a bear of a coin.image
    Witty sig line currently under construction. Thank you for your patience.
  • halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭
    Now that's one big beautiful hunk of silver!

    Regards, John
    Need the following OBW rolls to complete my 46-64 Roosevelt roll set:
    1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
    Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
  • SmittysSmittys Posts: 9,876 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice way to have silver. Got any kilo bars?
    https://www.ebay.com/str/christyscoins
  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    This little one gram fleck of silver is my only 'bar'.

    I think it's really cute. However, it also makes me laugh. It took a while for me to settle down after getting the items out and stop laughing enough to photograph it. It's absurdly small and such a fractional size. It seems a little odd that one gram bars of silver were even made. It seems to be mostly a novelty. I wonder how long it would take to collect 1,000 of these one gram bars.

    Regarding the silver in my collection...For some reason (*), i've gravitated towards silver rounds rather than bars.

    I've got them in 2, 5, 10, 12, 14.6...and now 32.15 ounce sizes. I'm waiting for one or two more to come in, then I should be able to do an interesting photo spread of big honking silver coins.

    Some bars have appealed to me, but not quite enough for me to win an auction yet. Some bars are going at much more of a premium over melt than these rounds!


    (*)

    I think that the reason I gravitate towards large silver coins is based on what happened with Thalers



    << <i>The zenith of Thaler minting occurred in the late 16th and 17th centuries with the so-called "multiple Thalers", often called Lösers in Germany. The first were minted in Brunswick, and indeed the majority were struck there. Some of these coins reached colossal size, as much as sixteen normal thalers. The original reason for minting these colossal coins, some of which exceeded a full pound (over 450g) of silver and being over 12 cm in diameter, is uncertain. The name "löser" most likely was derived from a large gold coin minted in Hamburg called the Portugalöser, worth 10 ducats. Some of the silver löser reached this value, but not all. Eventually the term was applied to numerous similar coins worth more than a single Thaler. These coins are very rare, the larger ones often costing tens of thousands of dollars, and are highly sought after by serious collectors of Thalers. Few circulated in any real sense so they often remain in well-preserved condition. >>



    I'll probably never see or be able to afford a 'Multiple Thaler'. However, these huge contemporary silver chunks can at least give me a tiny fraction of that experience.




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