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EricaRaeEricaRae Posts: 1 ✭
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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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    TomBTomB Posts: 20,737 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Are you certain that is silver. It sure looks like lead to me.

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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 45,443 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TomB said:
    Are you certain that is silver. It sure looks like lead to me.

    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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    mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭

    those pictures are hard to even see any details but it doesn't even look like silver

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    derrybderryb Posts: 36,212 ✭✭✭✭✭

    check it with a geiger counter

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    rawteam1rawteam1 Posts: 2,472 ✭✭✭

    Where is it at? I don't see any silver...

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I agree with all the above... does not look like silver... and without markings, is likely NOT silver. Cheers, RickO

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    ashelandasheland Posts: 22,694 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I agree, it doesn't look like silver. The color is off.

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,564 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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.

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    crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 13,817 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bad imaging to say the very least.

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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 45,443 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What happened to EricaRae? One post and she's gone. I guess she didn't like the responses she was getting. :D

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    FellintoOblivionFellintoOblivion Posts: 280 ✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:
    What happened to EricaRae? One post and she's gone. I guess she didn't like the responses she was getting. :D

    Lead poisoning :'(

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