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$660/oz Silver

carscars Posts: 1,904
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I wanted it but couldn't bring myself to pay the price
Its all relative

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Is it because it's rare, or does that low serial number come into play? Or both?
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  • carscars Posts: 1,904
    I think it was a little of both although I doubt if another was listed it would go for that price again. I was willing to pay $40-$50. Its the first I've seen like it, I have a 10g like it and its the only one of those I've seen. Low serials do bring a premium.
    Its all relative
  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like something a rapper would have hanging from his necklace. Fo shizzle ma nizzle.image
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,232 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Maybe someone thought it was 5 ounces.

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  • carscars Posts: 1,904
    The buyer is a collector of fractionals like me and so is one of the underbidders so I don't think that was the case.
    Its all relative
  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    with a D in front of the serial number that is not a low serial number to me.

    now A 00124 would be more interesting but still pretty high. 1 2 or 3
    seems like it should be called a low serial number with A in front of it.
    everything else... nada
  • carscars Posts: 1,904
    I consider it low. Who knows what that d means. Yes it could be part of the numbering system as in axxxx-zxxxx but maybe it is not. Could designate the type of bar it is. I Highly doubt there were 260,000 of these produced.

    Please show me another with any serial number.
    Its all relative
  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    i do not have to prove my case. i was just making common sense comments.

    126 to me is not even close to being low. D in front of a serial number
    often means a series like you mentioned. AXXXXX-DXXXXXX.

    and if you were going to make these and fabricate them as a large
    company you bet i would make thousand and thousands of them.
    anything less is not worth it.
  • mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    if they did make a lot, perhaps a lot were melted down during the whole Hunt brothers silver scheme.
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  • carscars Posts: 1,904


    << <i>i do not have to prove my case. i was just making common sense comments.

    126 to me is not even close to being low. D in front of a serial number
    often means a series like you mentioned. AXXXXX-DXXXXXX.

    and if you were going to make these and fabricate them as a large
    company you bet i would make thousand and thousands of them.
    anything less is not worth it. >>



    I consider it low, That's my Opinion, yours differs. You state it as if it were a fact.
    Its all relative
  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    since we cannot seem to dig up pics online of more examples i can
    show a JM version that seems, by the serial number, to indicate these
    were made in the 100s of thousands. Which leads me to think that all
    the other companies also produced these during the boom in such
    numbers and most were tossed into the melt bucket by dealers as
    they aquired them which i have read here is often the case with odd
    silver items during that time frame.

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    and as an example of engelhard numbering here is two small gold bars
    showing a pattern.

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  • carscars Posts: 1,904
    I do not disagree that many could have been produced but that is not fact, its speculation.
    Its all relative
  • PutTogetherPutTogether Posts: 2,141 ✭✭✭


    << <i>i do not have to prove my case. i was just making common sense comments.

    >>



    Best quote ever. I need to remember to use that one.
  • carew4mecarew4me Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭✭
    There seems to be a discrepency between Eng and JM.
    I have lots of JM fractionals and can add more as needed.
    Engels are a bit harder to find in larger lots.

    I think the low serial# chase is strictly a personal choice and that "rarity" plays a
    a smaller role in pure bullion products.

    I do get a small charge from having a run of serial numbers in series image

    Loves me some shiny!
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