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MesquiteMesquite Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭
From a Teletrade e-mail.

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Only $93K. image

"Teletrade Direct is pleased to offer a single Engelhard bar, still wrapped in the original paper with red wax seal. A remarkable piece, it is 49.585 ounces of solid platinum in .999 fineness, and has been X-rayed for authenticity by Teletrade Direct.

In the same family for nearly three decades, it has been well-preserved and still boasts the assay information, contract number and weight inscribed on the outer paper wrapping, which has never been removed since originally wrapped – making it as historic and exclusive as it is valuable.

Platinum bars of this caliber are extremely limited – Teletrade Direct is able to offer one and one only! Don’t miss this opportunity to own your unique piece of priceless platinum history!"
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,128 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'll take two!

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  • gecko109gecko109 Posts: 8,231
    The word "unique" may be one of the top 10 misused words of the entire English language. However, it appears that it has been correctly used here! Hard to imagine another like it exists!
  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's only at a 10% premium over spot. What an amzing item...............MJ
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  • slantycouchslantycouch Posts: 1,704 ✭✭✭
    Wow - very cool item. Neat to see.
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,128 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Do they really expect somebody to buy that pig unpoked???

    TD
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  • MesquiteMesquite Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭
    They say that they did poke it with X-rays.
    There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
    –John Adams, 1826
  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So what's the collector price/premium for the box completely unopened? I can't imagine on that big a hunk that it would matter much opened/unopened if the box stayed with the bar....?
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Do they really expect somebody to buy that pig unpoked???

    TD >>



    Ditto. Gambling all or nothing with $100k for "kind of cool" is too rich for my blood. Did I say rich? I meant stupid.
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  • slantycouchslantycouch Posts: 1,704 ✭✭✭
    The more I think about it... is it really that rare? Seems to me like mail > SDB would be kind of common. If people keep US Mint sets unopened for 50+ years, why not PMs too?
  • If people keep US Mint sets unopened for 50+ years, why not PMs too?

    Just from my experience ........ when someone/company bought an item like this

    it was for a reason .... and was USED for that reason.


    Just a thought.
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  • guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,266 ✭✭✭

    I'd like to see how they "authenticated it" by x-rays. All that would show up on a radiograph would be a white solid rectangle. especially something of this size and density.

    There might be a chunk of lead in there. probably not, but who knows?

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  • slantycouchslantycouch Posts: 1,704 ✭✭✭
    Might be old news, but this is now marked as "sold" on their site.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,122 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I'd like to see how they "authenticated it" by x-rays. All that would show up on a radiograph would be a white solid rectangle. especially something of this size and density.

    There might be a chunk of lead in there. probably not, but who knows? >>



    Good point. They can tell there is something in there but how can they tell what the composition is?

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