PRECIOUS METAL Friday Porn 9-3
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1/4 oz $10 AGE for my newp
Avid collector of GSA's.
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<< <i>1/4 oz $10 AGE for my newp
Now you have a nice background! Though, I miss the old green towel!
edited to add: Nice pickup Mesquite! I like the RCM wolves! I was planning to buy a few to match the 1/2oz from 2006...but Amex shipping charges are too high for my small orders.
I have $65 extra in my pocket this week, so I am headed to the B&M this afternoon to buy some silver.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Saturday it was this Mexican 20 peso. Nearly a half ounce of gold, 90 years old, slabbed, stickered, and only $25 over melt!
Also Saturday I got these two old pour engelhards. The top one is the most crude I've ever seen. Check out that reverse!
Tuesday I picked up my first and only "loaf" engelhard. Had my choice of 4 or 5, this one was significantly overweight. Also an RNB 10 oz in original plastic, made by JM. And $8 face older washies and a 1/4 eagle:
And then yesterday I picked up this gorgeous original roll of '23 peace dollars. $375 for the roll.
--Severian the Lame
Wings sticker? New one on me?
I appreciate the brushed finish on these transitional Eng bars, but the ones I've seen (this one included) seem to be filed down on the back towards the bottom, presumably to achieve the weight they want. That kind of leaves them open to clipping or shaving by anyone else. So to me at least they seem somewhat suspect. My dealer whipped out his scale and told me to go to town, which is how I knew this one was a few grams overweight. For what it's worth I've found nearly all of the older horizontal category of Eng bars are overweight by a gram or two minimum.
I'd never seen the Wings sticker either and I asked about it on the US coin forum. Apparently a dealer out of Florida, with a pretty good rep, offered this as an addition to CAC which only stickers US coins. World International Numismatic Grading or something to that effect.
Wings thread on the US coin forum
--Severian the Lame
<< <i>,,,,,,but the ones I've seen (this one included) seem to be filed down on the back towards the bottom, presumably to achieve the weight they want. That kind of leaves them open to clipping or shaving by anyone else. >>
I doubt anyone would bother. Too easy to weigh these bars so why risk ruining a bar for a few cents worth of silver filings?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
--Severian the Lame
I didn't make any PM purchases this week, as I invested in noble gas instead.
Custom made for my studio. A little over 3'x2'.
I purchased the whole set as 90% silver when it was $18.50 ish...
A lot of the early 30's quarters are strong VF's. Many more in the 40's & 50's are nice XF & AU original.
Edited to add: I put the 32-D in there myself after I got home.
There are 14.8295 troy ounces of silver in 82 silver Washington quarters.
Click on this link to see my ebay listings.
I had 3 nice half oz JM bars...that's what I bought after I sold them (and some change in my pocket).
How did I do?
<< <i>Ciccio, 11.6 oz for 1.5 oz
I was just lucky to find 2 "very interested" bidders.
Next week I will show what I bought with the others I sold!
--Severian the Lame
I got 3 Big E one ounce bars for $61. Not bad!!
Keep on Stacking!
Bstat