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Question about silver bars.

PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,140 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Do any of you pay a premium for attractive colorful toning when buying a collectable silver bar? I'm not talking about regular tarnish here. Does colorful attractive rainbow toning bring any premium on eBay compared to a similar bar that's all white?

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  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,121 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Unlike coins, I do not pay a premium for toned bars. It all depends on ones taste.
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,140 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Unlike coins, I do not pay a premium for toned bars. It all depends on ones taste. >>



    Most coin collectors don't pay a premium for fancy colorful toning on coins but enough do to affect the market for these coins. I guess when the silver bar doctors start ATing silver bars we'll know that silver bars have become a mainstream collectable.imageimage

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  • chumleychumley Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭
    most of my silver is just that silver.......but there are a few pieces with toning and I did pay a bit extra for them
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,140 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't usually pay extra for toning. If a bar has ugly toning I may dip it but if the toning is attractive, I would certainly leave it alone. I can see a time where vintage bars are being counterfeited and original toned surfaces have a premium since they help authenticate a bar as being an original.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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