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Is this a PAMP knock off?

keepdachangekeepdachange Posts: 1,374
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looks like it says "RAMI" instead of "PAMP", anyone ever see one of these?

here
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,709 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You may be right.
    Chinese fake maybe????
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • CiccioCiccio Posts: 1,405 ✭
    It should be original.
    SilverBaron owns one RAMI.

    edited to add: at a closer look, it may be fake.
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,141 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've seen several of these lately, but they did have either the PAMP logo or RAMI logo. ( Identical designs) Don't know which is the counterfeit or knockoff. Definitely not PAMP Suisse

    The one below appears to be an altered RAMI bar.

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    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • SilverBaronSilverBaron Posts: 767 ✭
    I am convinced that the RAMI bars are NOT counterfiet in sense that they are not .999 fine silver.

    I have run across a few more of these, various sizes, and after carefull weighing, measuring and examination.....

    I have come to the conclusion that they are .999 silver and were .... ( in order )

    1 .... Made by PAMP using the RAMI name ...... for what reason, I do not know. I speculate it was for Mid-East export.

    2 .... Licensed by PAMP to ?? ( Mid-East refiner ) ........ again ..... no real information .... just a hunch.

    3 .... They really are a knock off by ??? trying to boost sales by looking like a PAMP.

    4 .... They really are not .999 fine and I got clipped on a 1/2 oz ( $10 ) bar. ( It does beg the question ..... counterfiet 1/2 oz silver?!? )


    Just a few thoughts.


    Keep on Stack'n!!

    SB

    Silver Baron
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    Silver is the mortar that binds the bricks of loyalty.
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,141 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I am convinced that the RAMI bars are NOT counterfiet in sense that they are not .999 fine silver. >>





    << <i>I have come to the conclusion that they are .999 silver >>



    Now I'm confused. Which is it? ... I've yet to find out any reference anywhere to a RAMI producer
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • SilverBaronSilverBaron Posts: 767 ✭
    I believe that these bars are .999 Fine.
    Silver Baron
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    Silver is the mortar that binds the bricks of loyalty.
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