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Need help identifying silver bar

piecesofmepiecesofme Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭
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Doing some quick googling and can't find anything other than a website that wants me to pay tp join to find out how much "rare & vintage" bars auctioned for...no thanks.
Is it a Foster bar? It kind of looks like the same Eagle design I've seen on some of their non-Walla Walla bars. Any help would be appreciated.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,140 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Never seen that one before.image

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  • MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 8,792 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've got one exactly like it, but until I saw yours, I've never seen another one.

    I couldn't find them on ebay either.

    Click on this link to see my ebay listings.

  • mrpaseomrpaseo Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭
    Here you go.



    << <i>The contract is traded on the CME futures market .

    Summary Contract Specifications

    Underlying value : Silver
    Contract Size : 5.000 troy ounces
    value of the contract : silver price x 5.000 ounces
    Minimum fluctuation : 0,005 points (= $ 25 per contract)
    Settlement type : physical
    Periodicity : 2-monthly
    Delivery Period : the third last business day of the delivery month. >>



    Wait.... that says CMX... not CME... the search continues.
  • piecesofmepiecesofme Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭
    So it's a bar produced by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange? That would seem kind of odd being that they are all about paper silver, not physical.
    To forgive is to free a prisoner, and to discover that prisoner was you.
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,121 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Comex Metals Exchange ?
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • FullCameoFullCameo Posts: 492


    << <i>So it's a bar produced by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange? That would seem kind of odd being that they are all about paper silver, not physical. >>



    Perhaps it's made of paper.

    j/k image
  • mrpaseomrpaseo Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭


    << <i>So it's a bar produced by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange? That would seem kind of odd being that they are all about paper silver, not physical. >>



    I'm really trying to find another photo to confirm but everything I find still points me here.

    This page also says that they deliver physical silver...

    I can not find a photo anywhere but a lot of sites refer to Heraeus bars.

    Sorry.
  • rawteam1rawteam1 Posts: 2,472 ✭✭✭
    they deliver 1000 oz bars, recognized refiners only...
    keceph `anah
  • chumleychumley Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭
    Heraeus are a Swiss bar
  • MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 8,792 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I thought I had a stand alone shot of my bar, but I guess not.
    My bar does not have CMX stamped in it.

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    Click on this link to see my ebay listings.

  • piecesofmepiecesofme Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭
    Very interesting Meltdown, same design but has CMX on it. So that tells me yours must be the "basic" or standard design and then things can be added to the standard design...but by who? lol

    Thanks for the help so far folks... I can't find anything else about it. That website I mentioned seems to know something about it, but they want to paid for any additional information.
    Is anyone a member of this site and could help me out please?

    Where's 1970 SilverArt, I wonder if he'd know anything about it. You out there 1970SA?
    To forgive is to free a prisoner, and to discover that prisoner was you.
  • 1970SilverArt1970SilverArt Posts: 482 ✭


    << <i>Very interesting Meltdown, same design but has CMX on it. So that tells me yours must be the "basic" or standard design and then things can be added to the standard design...but by who? lol

    Thanks for the help so far folks... I can't find anything else about it. That website I mentioned seems to know something about it, but they want to paid for any additional information.
    Is anyone a member of this site and could help me out please?

    Where's 1970 SilverArt, I wonder if he'd know anything about it. You out there 1970SA? >>



    I initially thought when I first looked at it that it was a Foster Company silver bar but I did not see it listed in the 5th edition Archie Kidd book and I did not see it listed in the 6th edition Archie Kidd book. Since I did not see it listed under Foster Company, my second thought that it was a commercial silver bar but I looked in the "Commercial and Miscellaneous" sections of the 5th and 6th edition Archie Kidd books but I did not see it listed there. I also do not know what "CMX" stands for and that could possibly be a clue to who minted that bar. I honestly do not know anything about this bar and I was not able to find any information in the guidebooks or online.

    DISCLAIMER: I am NOT a '70's silver art bar expert but I try my best to play one on the Internet.
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,121 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The only thing I keep coming up with in my searches is: CMX means that is it COMEX approved and that means it can be held in any Gov sponsored account such as a Roth, IRA, and the like. Nothing for any manufacturer with the CMX name.
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • piecesofmepiecesofme Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭
    1970 SA is STUMPED? image LOL...i'm just kidding bud. My inital thought was Foster too.
    Yes OPA I think we're all coming up with the same thing unfortuantely. Also odd that Meltdown and I have the same designed bar for the most part.

    Anyway, thanks to everyone for their help, I greatly appreicate it. I think we may be at a roadblock but if anyone has anything else to add i'm all ears.
    To forgive is to free a prisoner, and to discover that prisoner was you.
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