Home› Precious Metals

Engelhard bar question - what does MFR signify?

OnlyGoldIsMoneyOnlyGoldIsMoney Posts: 3,542 ✭✭✭✭✭
in Precious Metals
I have wondered what the letters MFR signfiy on older poured Engelhard bars. The letters follow the serial number. Does anyone know their meaning?

image
NO END IN SIGHT LIB $2.50'S CAC ONLY
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/gold/liberty-head-2-1-gold-major-sets/liberty-head-2-1-gold-basic-set-circulation-strikes-1840-1907-cac/alltimeset/268163

March of Time - 27 Centuries in Gold
https://coins.www.collectors-society.com/WCM/CoinCustomSetView.aspx?s=36590

Comments

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,788 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am not familiar with that on an Engelhard bar. One would guess "manufacturer."
    Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I am not familiar with that on an Engelhard bar. One would guess "manufacturer." >>



    Not the first word that came to my mind image
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • chumleychumley Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭
    mother fubars rich referring to the purchaser.....i,m guessin
  • SilverBaronSilverBaron Posts: 767 ✭
    Metals Fabrication & Refining.

    MFR can be found on all sizes of bars ...... including 3s, 4s, and 7s.

    They marked there bars with MFR for around 2 years .... then stopped.
    Silver Baron
    ********************
    Silver is the mortar that binds the bricks of loyalty.
  • bstat1020bstat1020 Posts: 2,157 ✭✭
    You beat me to it SB!!

    Metals Fabrication and Refining is what it stands for. I am curious in what years they used it??

    I have a 3 ozer with MFR and one without.
    image

    image
    Madelyn's Birth Year Registry Set, Sophia's Birth Year Registry Set, My 10 Best Coins
Sign In or Register to comment.