Calling all you Silver Art experts. Do I have anything "rare"? PT II
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Hi everyone. A few weeks ago I posted some 1 oz silver pieces that I had laying around for some time and ALOT of you responded and helped me out to let me know if I had anything maybe not rare, but that may carry some premium with it.
Well, I'd like to ask for your help once again. I found some more buried in another drawer. What I am really trying to do is thin the herd a bit and only keep what are the ones that carry a premium and/or are just flat out cool pieces.
How these pics are arranged are the left half (of a bigger picture that I thought would be too large) showing I guess what you'd call the obverse, then the next pic is of the same ones with some flipped because I thought you may need to see the other side of it.
The next 2 pics are the same thing, but the right half of that larger picture with the last one being of the same ones but with some flipped. Make sense? I hope.
Just some things that I did notice is the top Southeast Refining one in pic 3 doesn't have a serial number, is that of any significance? Those are 1/2 oz eagle rounds in the first pic. The Crown Mint Holiday Beauties one says it is of a 12 bar series with a mintage of 5000. So how 'bout it folks, do I have anything of note this time around? And thank you all so much for helping out last time and this time too.
Well, I'd like to ask for your help once again. I found some more buried in another drawer. What I am really trying to do is thin the herd a bit and only keep what are the ones that carry a premium and/or are just flat out cool pieces.
How these pics are arranged are the left half (of a bigger picture that I thought would be too large) showing I guess what you'd call the obverse, then the next pic is of the same ones with some flipped because I thought you may need to see the other side of it.
The next 2 pics are the same thing, but the right half of that larger picture with the last one being of the same ones but with some flipped. Make sense? I hope.
Just some things that I did notice is the top Southeast Refining one in pic 3 doesn't have a serial number, is that of any significance? Those are 1/2 oz eagle rounds in the first pic. The Crown Mint Holiday Beauties one says it is of a 12 bar series with a mintage of 5000. So how 'bout it folks, do I have anything of note this time around? And thank you all so much for helping out last time and this time too.
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oh, well I've got a few that make that one look like a piece you'd give your nephew for his Baptism LMAO...and no please don't ask me to post them, but if you must see them, you can pm me I imagine.
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<< <i>Hi everyone. A few weeks ago I posted some 1 oz silver pieces that I had laying around for some time and ALOT of you responded and helped me out to let me know if I had anything maybe not rare, but that may carry some premium with it.
Well, I'd like to ask for your help once again. I found some more buried in another drawer. What I am really trying to do is thin the herd a bit and only keep what are the ones that carry a premium and/or are just flat out cool pieces.
How these pics are arranged are the left half (of a bigger picture that I thought would be too large) showing I guess what you'd call the obverse, then the next pic is of the same ones with some flipped because I thought you may need to see the other side of it.
The next 2 pics are the same thing, but the right half of that larger picture with the last one being of the same ones but with some flipped. Make sense? I hope.
Just some things that I did notice is the top Southeast Refining one in pic 3 doesn't have a serial number, is that of any significance? Those are 1/2 oz eagle rounds in the first pic. The Crown Mint Holiday Beauties one says it is of a 12 bar series with a mintage of 5000. So how 'bout it folks, do I have anything of note this time around? And thank you all so much for helping out last time and this time too.
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The Crown Mint Beauty silver art bar will fetch a decent premium on ebay because of the adult-theme. I will agree with OPA on this. Very good find IMO because those are hard to find in my local area and I have not seen that many at the coin shows that I went to this year but it is not a rare art bar because it has a high mintage of 5,000.
The Golden State Mint 5-oz silver art bar and the 1982 Shields Mint silver art bar are common-minted silver art bars and they will not fetch much of a premium on ebay. The Oxford bars are also low rarity bars. The Silver-Bull silver art bar is a Silvertowne art bar and most Silvertowne art bars are low rarity bars.
The "Walking Liberty Eagle Reverse" silver art bar is a Madison Mint bar. Like most Madison Mint silver art bars, this one is also fairly common on ebay.
The "Queen of Watergate" silver art bar was minted in 1973 by the Colonial Mint and that is a common-minted silver art bar.
The USSC "Silent Majority" silver art bar is, like most holiday-themed silver art bars, a common-minted silver art bar.
The "Comet Kohoutek silver art bar was minted by the Mount Everest Mint in 1974 and according to the 4th edition Archie Kidd silver art bar priceguide, the mintage number on this bar is 1,940. I would consider this bar a semi-rare silver art bar. I am not sure what it will fetch on ebay but I will make a conservative guess of between $5 to $10 over spot silver.
I believe that the silver rounds are considered just .999 generic silver with no rarity value.
The "Happy New Year" Crown Mint Beauty is, by far, the best find IMO in this group.
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I am not very familiar with the Deak-Pererra and the SouthEast Refining silver bars but I think that those are regular silver bars with no rarity value attached to these.
The "International Trade Unit" silver art bars are Tentex Mint bars and these are common-minted silver art bars.
The "Eagle Landing on a branch" is a Silvertowne art bar that I believe was minted in the 1980's.
The "JPMI" silver art bar is the first time that I have seen that bar before. I do not know anything about it.
Overall, these are all common-minted silver bars.
I will say that I was surprised at some of the premiums some of these are selling for on eBay. I'm fully aware of the 15% ebay/Paypal now steals from a part time seller on there like me, so I of course would have to factor that in, but this is what I've found on there so far.
For the style Oxford bars I have, which there is only 1 auction for as others are a different style, the seller wants $80.
The 5 oz'er sold recently for $47.40/oz., not bad.
The JPMI bars, a seller wants $61.
The Deak-Perera bars are selling for $55-65!
The G.G. Mining 1/2 oz'ers barely bring Spot surprisingly though.
Overall, The Crown Mint Beauty "New Year's Day" silver art bar is the best find of all of the bars that you posted on this thread. This is not a rare bar because the mintage number for that particular art bar is 5,000. These will sell for decent premium on ebay but like OPA mentioned, any adult-themed silver art bar will sell for a good premium on ebay.
<< <i>Sounds good folks. Now that I have a better idea of what I actually have besides 1 oz silver pieces lol thanks to you all, I'm sorting thru what I'm going to keep.
I will say that I was surprised at some of the premiums some of these are selling for on eBay. I'm fully aware of the 15% ebay/Paypal now steals from a part time seller on there like me, so I of course would have to factor that in, but this is what I've found on there so far.
For the style Oxford bars I have, which there is only 1 auction for as others are a different style, the seller wants $80.
The 5 oz'er sold recently for $47.40/oz., not bad.
The JPMI bars, a seller wants $61.
The Deak-Perera bars are selling for $55-65!
The G.G. Mining 1/2 oz'ers barely bring Spot surprisingly though. >>
Are these BIN's or are some of these auctions that people are bidding on?