Looking for info on this silver
EricaRae
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These have no markings at all aside from what appears to be a coins image stamped on them. They are eight ounce bars which apparently is uncommon and have been shaved a bit on the edges to get precise weight.****
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Are you certain that is silver. It sure looks like lead to me.
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Agree. If this was a precious metals bar there would be some indication of weight and fineness. Probably some bare metal bar. It's crude so it was probably made in someone's garage. Can we get better higher resolution pics?
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those pictures are hard to even see any details but it doesn't even look like silver
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check it with a geiger counter
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Where is it at? I don't see any silver...
I agree with all the above... does not look like silver... and without markings, is likely NOT silver. Cheers, RickO
I agree, it doesn't look like silver. The color is off.
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Wild guesses would be that it is either hot type metal, which was of course melted down and recast over and over and was stored in ingot form between uses, or babbitt metal which has various industrial uses.
When I started at Coin World in 1973 they were still using linotype machines to set type. I was occasionally in the typesetting room making late corrections to various things, and they had bins of crude ingots they could throw into the melting pots as needed.
Bad imaging to say the very least.
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Lead poisoning