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Does toning affect the value or desirability of silver bars?

PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,342 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I'm thinking of older poured bars that may have some collector value.

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  • tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
    I would say yes but in a negative way. 10oz JM bars seem frequently turn nearly black and to me lose their premium. On vintage art bars people like them white and scratch free.
  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,417 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd pay absolutely 0, or negative, premium for a toned bar.....any oz.
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    I don't know what other people would pay, but I think attractive toning is cool, and have before, and might in the future pay a premium for it.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,342 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When I asked this question, I was thinking of light to medium toning that would probably dip off rather than black toning.

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  • RobbRobb Posts: 2,034 ✭
    Silver bars are way too easy to AT for me to care about a premium for colors and too easy to dip for me to care about blast white. It's just silver to me.
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,333 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like toning, but do not consider it important either way.
    TD
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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't think I'd pay a premium for it. But I'd probably pick an attractively toned bar over a non toned bar (or an ugly toned bar), all else being equal.
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  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,116 ✭✭✭✭✭
    doesn't bother me unless there's enough of it to throw the weight off.

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  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,126 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like mine white and proof like with a mirror surface and would never pay a premium for toned bars. Most tarnished bars that I've run across are not attractive, especially the ones still in their original sealed 25+ year old cellophane or plastic wrappers. ( I suppose some people like deep purple almost black toned bars)
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  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • keepdachangekeepdachange Posts: 1,374
    Apparently this seller thinks toning demands a premium on this bar
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  • gecko109gecko109 Posts: 8,231 ✭
    I always smile whenever Jester posts that pic of the 5 kilo.
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,126 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Jester...great looking wildlife bars, but I'd have preferred a silver instead of bluish grass and in time, deep dark purple grass.
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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I always smile whenever Jester posts that pic of the 5 kilo. >>



    Agreed. Those are very cool.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,342 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Apparently this seller thinks toning demands a premium on this bar >>



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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would pay a very small premium on an attractively toned bar. MJ
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  • greatnortherncoingreatnortherncoin Posts: 412
    i would buy a toned one before the others
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