Help with old poured silver bars? Thunderbird? Jiles?
jonathanb
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Does anyone know about silver bars? I bought these as part of a larger group because I wanted some of the other things in the group. I'd hate to melt something that was rare, simply because I didn't recognize it.
The top bar has a mark that looks like an eagle on an arrow. The eagle (and I suppose the arrow also) has the feel of something out of the American Southwest. It weighs 4.92 troy ounces. If the price on the back is related to the silver value, it must have been written during the 1980 silver boom.
The middle bar is stamped with some that looks like "Jiles" in script. A google search didn't turn up anything useful. It weighs 3.8 troy ounces.
The bottom bar doesn't seem to have any specific markings at all.
Help?
Thanks!
Does anyone know about silver bars? I bought these as part of a larger group because I wanted some of the other things in the group. I'd hate to melt something that was rare, simply because I didn't recognize it.
The top bar has a mark that looks like an eagle on an arrow. The eagle (and I suppose the arrow also) has the feel of something out of the American Southwest. It weighs 4.92 troy ounces. If the price on the back is related to the silver value, it must have been written during the 1980 silver boom.
The middle bar is stamped with some that looks like "Jiles" in script. A google search didn't turn up anything useful. It weighs 3.8 troy ounces.
The bottom bar doesn't seem to have any specific markings at all.
Help?
Thanks!
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can you do a specific gravity test?
<< <i>The last one looks funny for silver (or is it just toned?) >>
Oddly, from my experience with coins (but not with bars), I though the last one looked the most natural and that the other two looked funny. Shows what I know. The yellowish-pinkish-bluish colors of the three bars in the picture are pretty accurate.
<< <i>can you do a specific gravity test? >>
Unfortunately not. That comes up often enough that I'm thinking that maybe I should get set up to do that, but right now not.
jonathan