1945 Saudi Arabian 4 Pound Gold Disk on eBay

commoncents05

Just sold on eBay for $2900 These were made by the US Mint, and have been discussed here before.

-paul

joebb21

is that good? bad? ok?

coinkid855

I looked at it at first and was like....That thing doesn't look like it weighs 4 pounds!!




-Paul

Broadstruck

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Crazy... Major stupid money

robkool

A little high tho...
Krause listed this piece as being less than an ounce of gold. 0.9420 AGW. With about 91K originally minted by the Philadelphia Mint. These were struck for payment to the Saudi government for oil. Most were eventually melted into bullion, making these more scarce. The off- metal struck pattern pieces are exceedingly rare.

coindeuce

I purchased a fascinating gold object yesterday, on a parallel level of interest. A "smuggler's" ingot of .999 fine. This 3.20 ozt (100g) ingot has carefully rounded, polished edges, supposedly for making insertion into a body cavity very painless. The face marked "Valcambi Suisse" in conjunction with the fineness designation, and 3 Tolas. The seller is employed in a field which has involved extensive travel to the Persian Gulf. Sorry, no pics.

MsMorrisine

<< <i>I purchased a fascinating gold object yesterday, on a parallel level of interest. A "smuggler's" ingot of .999 fine. This 3.75 ozt ingot has carefully rounded, polished edges, supposedly for making insertion into a body cavity very painless. The face marked "Valcambi Suisse" in conjunction with the fineness designation. The seller is employed in a field which has involved extensive travel to the Persian Gulf. Sorry, no pics. >>



This one requires cleaning!!! Please!

coindeuce

I was less apprehensive about handling this, than I have been to handle dental gold that has been presented for scrap sale. I've literally had persons come directly from the dentist's chair, in which case I have politely requested that they separate the enamel and disinfect their caps/crowns and then return.

bidask

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Crazy... Major stupid money >>

I would not call it crazy major stupid money ....it is gold after all.

CaptHenway

<< <i>I purchased a fascinating gold object yesterday, on a parallel level of interest. A "smuggler's" ingot of .999 fine. This 3.20 ozt (100g) ingot has carefully rounded, polished edges, supposedly for making insertion into a body cavity very painless. The face marked "Valcambi Suisse" in conjunction with the fineness designation, and 3 Tolas. The seller is employed in a field which has involved extensive travel to the Persian Gulf. Sorry, no pics. >>




"Parallel level of interest"?????
I don't think so, Tim.
Did it at least come with Tola Paper?????

GrumpyEd

<< <i><< I purchased a fascinating gold object yesterday, on a parallel level of interest. A "smuggler's" ingot of .999 fine. This 3.20 ozt (100g) ingot has carefully rounded, polished edges, supposedly for making insertion into a body cavity very painless. The face marked "Valcambi Suisse" in conjunction with the fineness designation, and 3 Tolas. The seller is employed in a field which has involved extensive travel to the Persian Gulf. Sorry, no pics. >> >>



Hope it was uncirculated

RWB

The Saudi gold disk sold for about 800 more than current value. It appears two bidders wanted the same item.

The total mintage of four-sovereign pieces was 91,272.

fiveNdime

<< <i>That thing doesn't look like it weighs 4 pounds!! >>


phew, i thought it was just me...

RWB

The real find would be one of the 5oz gold bars made for Saudi Arabia prior to the discs.

nesvt

<< <i>I purchased a fascinating gold object yesterday, on a parallel level of interest. A "smuggler's" ingot of .999 fine. This 3.20 ozt (100g) ingot has carefully rounded, polished edges, supposedly for making insertion into a body cavity very painless. The face marked "Valcambi Suisse" in conjunction with the fineness designation, and 3 Tolas. The seller is employed in a field which has involved extensive travel to the Persian Gulf. Sorry, no pics. >>



Awesome. Can I have a slice... um... a clean slice?

WoodenJefferson

FINENESS 916 2/3

In layman's terms, what does this equate to?

PerryHall

<< <i>FINENESS 916 2/3

In layman's terms, what does this equate to? >>



22 Karat

Batman23

<< <i>FINENESS 916 2/3

In layman's terms, what does this equate to? >>




91.6666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666667% pure gold

493.1 Gross weight * 91 2/3% = 452.008333 grains pure gold.

coinsarefun

I love the look of this gold!

TopographicOceans

It's 1.127086 oz. of gold.

Pretty expensive. APMEX sells them

halfhunter

29.2896794944 grams of pure gold . . . So almost 2g shy of a troy ounce.

HH