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100% pure silver bar?

carscars Posts: 1,904
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Picked this up the other day, It says Plata (silver) 1000. Pure silver? I know Penoles from Mexico is known for having 99.99 pure silver. What do you think?
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  • mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    hmmmm, I thought most of these should say Plata Pura. Weird how that part was left out.
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  • carscars Posts: 1,904
    Maybe its silver plated...
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  • mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    I hope not! But I think you know as well as me that some 100 gram bars you've owned in the past would say plata pura, this one doesn't say the pura part. Might be a Mexican knockoff
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  • carscars Posts: 1,904
    yes most mexican silver says plata pura which means Pure silver but this bar seem legit to me. Maybe someone else will chime in...
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,234 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>hmmmm, I thought most of these should say Plata Pura. Weird how that part was left out. >>



    It says "PLATA" on the bar and since it gives the finess as "1000", having "PURA" on the bar would be redundant. Nice and very interesting bar.image

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  • carscars Posts: 1,904
    I didn't think about that image
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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Does being redundant, mean saying again

    what you said several times before, but felt

    it necessary to repeat by saying it once more

    again?
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  • RedHerringRedHerring Posts: 2,077 ✭
    Like Yoggi Berra said.

    "It's like deja vu all over again!"


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  • cinman14cinman14 Posts: 2,489 ✭
    I thought we already discussed the impossibility of 100% pure silver...image



    << <i>The level of purity varies from issue to issue. 99.9% purity is common. The purest mass-produced bullion coins are in the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf series, which go up to 99.999% purity. Note that a 100% pure bullion is not possible, as absolute purity in extracted and refined metals can only be asymptotically approached. >>



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  • carscars Posts: 1,904
    Wasn't discussing it again, Was asking if this bar was 100% pure. Did you even read the post?image
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,234 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Wasn't discussing it again, Was asking if this bar was 100% pure. Did you even read the post?image >>



    At 999+ they probably thought it was close enough to call it 1000 fine. Sort of like the grading services call a coin MS/PR70 which is a perfect coin if they can see no flaws under 5X magnificayion.

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  • cinman14cinman14 Posts: 2,489 ✭


    << <i>Wasn't discussing it again, Was asking if this bar was 100% pure. Did you even read the post?image >>



    Yes I read the post... I just assumed that from your participation in the previous thread you would have understood
    100% silver was not possible.. I guess it was a misunderstanding on my part...image
  • Coll3ctorColl3ctor Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭


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    << <i>Wasn't discussing it again, Was asking if this bar was 100% pure. Did you even read the post?image >>



    Yes I read the post... I just assumed that from your participation in the previous thread you would have understood
    100% silver was not possible.. I guess it was a misunderstanding on my part...image >>






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  • carscars Posts: 1,904


    Yes I read the post... I just assumed that from your participation in the previous thread you would have understood
    100% silver was not possible.. I guess it was a misunderstanding on my part...image







    That's exactly why I was asking about this bar being marked in such a manner...
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  • cinman14cinman14 Posts: 2,489 ✭


    << <i>That's exactly why I was asking about this bar being marked in such a manner... >>



    Like I said.. It must have been a misunderstanding on my part. I would have thought you knew the bar was
    a fake or mislabeled because 100% could not exist...

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    << <i>Bad cinman14 !!! GO TO YOUR ROOM AND STAY THERE UNTIL I TELL YOU DIFFERENT >>



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