Silver Art Bar splurge!
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I hit a shop earlier this morning up in North Portland. They have a large selection (probably 100) different art bar ingots.
I've feel like I have pretty much picked over most of the rare or interesting (to me) items.
But I hadn't been there for about 6 months and I thought I'd go see what else I could find.
Here's what i came home with... none of them are particularly rare but they are fairly scarce.
These 4 phase ingots are made by Liberty Mint.
New Orleans -Mother Lode Mint
Las Vegas - Golden Nugget made by US Silver Corp (I think)
"The Party's Over" - USSC
This one is cool from Monex.
It says it's a "$10 Trade Eagle" "Monex guarantees to repurchase this ingot for no less than $10 US dollars until Jan. 1988"
I've only seen a couple of these in the round style. - USVI Argent Ingot Co.
I've feel like I have pretty much picked over most of the rare or interesting (to me) items.
But I hadn't been there for about 6 months and I thought I'd go see what else I could find.
Here's what i came home with... none of them are particularly rare but they are fairly scarce.
These 4 phase ingots are made by Liberty Mint.
New Orleans -Mother Lode Mint
Las Vegas - Golden Nugget made by US Silver Corp (I think)
"The Party's Over" - USSC
This one is cool from Monex.
It says it's a "$10 Trade Eagle" "Monex guarantees to repurchase this ingot for no less than $10 US dollars until Jan. 1988"
I've only seen a couple of these in the round style. - USVI Argent Ingot Co.
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Very Nice !! I grew up in New Orleans, jealous of that bar. Very nice and thanks for sharing.
<< <i>Cool art bars! Like the Vegas and NO the best. Still cant get into the rounds however. >>
Buy a dansco album for them.
Do you still have that Archie Kidd book?
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I still have the books. Need me to look up something?
<< <i>Do you still have that Archie Kidd book? >>
Great looking bars ... BTW what edition of Kidd's book do you have?
You might want to contact Mr. Phil Carlino (Fremont Coin) he made some art bars of his own but I can't remember seeing that one... I bet he'd know... I just checked his web address... seems like its down. I hope everything is ok with him...
He had 10 oz Nevada running horses bars that I still wished I picked one up from him -- premium was like $1.00+ above J&M's -- I digress.
Actually the Phase #1, Phase #2, Phase # 3, and Phase # 4 silver art bars were minted by the Justice Mint in 1973 according to the 4th edition of the Archie Kidd price guide called "An Indexed Guide Book of Silver Art bars.
Most of the Mother-Lode minted '70's silver art bars appear to have fairly large mintages since I tend to see a lot of them on ebay and locally as well.