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OPAOPA Posts: 17,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
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on a bullion art bar.... it's either RJC or RJG. Any idea who may have produced a 1 oz Zeppelin silver bar with those initials on the reverse?
"Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."

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  • StaircoinsStaircoins Posts: 2,566 ✭✭✭

    Possibly Ronald J. Gillio?

    His name is returned in some of the results, associated with art bars, when I google: "RJG mint art bars"

  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Perhaps...but unlikely..I believe he's more into coins & not silver art bars.

    Here are auction pictures of the item in question...not mine...

    unkown producer of the Graf Zeppelin bar
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,111 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Could that be the artist/engraver's initials rather that the manufacturer of the bar similar to VDB initials on the cent for example?

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  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,119 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Could that be the artist/engraver's initials rather that the manufacturer of the bar similar to VDB initials on the cent for example? >>



    It's possible... I have an example of just about every 1 oz silver art bar produced depicting the Zeppelin, but I've never seen this particular one before.
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • StaircoinsStaircoins Posts: 2,566 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Perhaps...but unlikely..I believe he's more into coins & not silver art bars. ... >>

    That was my thinking as well, although he's been in the business a long time. Might be worth an email to him just to rule him out.


  • StaircoinsStaircoins Posts: 2,566 ✭✭✭
    Ken Potter lists this bar here with the code "MLM-14". His listing states that it was made in 1974, with a mintage of 7500, and is an R3 bar. I presume that the "MLM" indicates that the maker is Mother-Lode Mint. Several other bars on his list are shown by the same maker.


    Edit for clarification.
  • StaircoinsStaircoins Posts: 2,566 ✭✭✭

    Mystery solved. The bar is Mother Lode Mint.

    See here, where you have to scroll down to see this bar.

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  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks...I double checked my bars & loh and behold, I've got that one with a cancelled die. Doh ... caution...that what happens when you get old...don't know what you've accumulated over the years.image
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
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