Friday Metal Porn 7/07/17

GRANDAM

Added a couple PG & G Bars to my stack,,,,,,, here they are together in one photo,,,,,

Sango

Beautiful set!!!!!!

She's yet to arrive, but en route. Silver touching the 15's even if only briefly, has relit the silverbug fire in me

For the past year or so, I'd felt 'satisfied' with my silver holdings. Not anymore.

PerryHall

Great PP&G set. I didn't realize that they now make 20 oz and 25 oz bars. I've seen the 1 oz through 10 oz sets for sale on APMEX and on eBay but the don't include the special 8.88 oz bar which is made for the Asian market since they traditionally consider the number 8 to be good luck.

PerryHall

I like the design on the RMC silver bar and I have several of their bars. The ones I have came in their own cardboard box to protect them from scuffing.

Downtown1974

Nice bars guys!
I really like the RMC kilos. Like PH said, they come in nice boxes to protect them and it allows for nice stacking when storing them.

NVU

Got this set put together awhile back and still looking for other sizes (if any) add to the set.

ricko

Those one kilo bars are interesting... STOP!!... No, I will not get the bar bug..... Cheers, RickO

Sango

Wakes up, price dropped, goes back in

1630Boston

Very nice collection and I did not know that fact about the 8.88 bar, thanks

asheland

@Sango said:
Wakes up, price dropped, goes back in

That's a particularly nice looking example!

cmanbb

Added these to the stack this week.

3 sequential W series bars. With "copy" of original invoice and shipping box 1981

Another 10oz Engelhard

And a 20oz

asheland

@cmanbb Very cool!

bigzestee

@cmanbb said:
Added these to the stack this week.

3 sequential W series bars. With "copy" of original invoice and shipping box 1981

Those are really nice and extremely rare to find with all the paperwork.Great find.

NVU

Based on the invoice, $10.56/oz in Oct/81 ? Am I reading it right ?

Weiss

Those sequential bars with paperwork are absolutely hardcore, @cmanbb .

I'm still in a funk, with nobody selling anything interesting at these low prices. The hunt for the unusual and interesting becomes much more difficult. Conversely, if you're looking to add and you don't mind common/modern, now is definitely the time.

Here are a few older images since I have nothing new to add

bigzestee

@Weiss The safety award gold is interesting never seen one of those before.

cmanbb

@NVU said:
Based on the invoice, $10.56/oz in Oct/81 ? Am I reading it right ?

Yes you are. I tried to find what spot price was back in Oct. 1981, but could not find it. So my question, what premium was paid if any for this lot of 10 engelhard bars?

bigzestee

@cmanbb said:

Yes you are. I tried to find what spot price was back in Oct. 1981, but could not find it. So my question, what premium was paid if any for this lot of 10 engelhard bars?

Probably no premium silver was right under $11 in 1981 and in 1982 it fell to under $5.

NVU

@cmanbb said:

@NVU said:
Based on the invoice, $10.56/oz in Oct/81 ? Am I reading it right ?

Yes you are. I tried to find what spot price was back in Oct. 1981, but could not find it. So my question, what premium was paid if any for this lot of 10 engelhard bars?

About 13% over, don't we all wish to go back in time and load up on these cheapie
http://www.usagold.com/reference/silverprices/1981.html

BruceS

Here is the breakdown by year. looks like 81 had a high of $16 and a low of $7, avg. $10.5

Comex Spot Price

Historical Silver Prices From 1975 to 2010
Comex Spot Settlement

(US dollars per ounce)

Year High Low Average
2010 30.60 14.82 20.18
2009 19.30 10.42 14.68
2008 20.69 8.79 14.97
2007 15.50 11.47 13.38
2006 14.85 8.82 11.62
2005 9.00 6.43 7.32
2004 8.21 5.51 6.67
2003 5.98 4.35 4.89
2002 5.11 4.22 4.60
2001 4.81 4.03 4.36
2000 5.55 4.56 4.97
1999 5.76 4.87 5.22
1998 7.26 4.61 5.53
1997 6.3070 4.1550 4.8716
1996 5.8190 4.6760 5.1783
1995 6.1020 4.3750 5.1850
1994 5.7810 4.5730 5.2808
1993 5.4430 3.5230 4.3026
1992 4.3180 3.6400 3.9334
1991 4.5450 3.5080 4.0355
1990 5.3320 3.9370 4.8174
1989 6.1940 5.0300 5.4931
1988 7.8270 5.9980 6.5335
1987 9.6600 5.3790 7.0198
1986 6.2850 4.8540 5.4653
1985 6.8350 5.5250 6.1459
1984 10.0640 6.2950 8.1585
1983 14.7150 8.4000 11.4340
1982 11.2100 4.9800 7.9311
1981 16.2900 7.9850 10.5014
1980 48.7000 10.8000 20.6568
1979 34.4500 5.9230 11.1135
1978 6.3170 4.8110 5.4068
1977 4.9760 4.2850 4.6235
1976 5.1370 3.8340 4.3506
1975 5.2500 3.9200 4.4193

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silversiren

Several more bars on the way, but these will do for now.

cmanbb

Forgot about these 2 bars. I get so wrapped up in Engelhard bars, I forget about the minors I pickup

hchcoin

Cool stuff in this thread

ricko

Really nice silver bars.... trying so hard to not buy some.... Cheers, RickO

JJM

Only one for the pile this week