does anyone know about these ? It says Miners bank 1849 weights about 2 oz pewter ?

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• DNADave Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 5, 2017 4:57PM Answer ✓

  Some bar collectors in the precious metals forum may be of help.

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• Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 5, 2017 5:09PM Answer ✓

  Miners Bank, San Francisco was a legit California territorial gold manufacturer. See PCGS coin facts for examples:
  http://www.pcgscoinfacts.com/Coin/Detail/10236

  My gut tells me that piece is of recent manufacture. At best a fantasy piece, at worst made to deceive.

  My gut has been known to be wrong, though.

  We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
  --Severian the Lame
  

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 5, 2017 5:32PM Answer ✓

  These where sold in a souvenir shop.

  To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  

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• coinpro76 Posts: 366 ✭✭✭

  January 5, 2017 5:33PM Answer ✓

  Maybe a miners bank apothecary type weight for purchasing precious metals etc. ?

  all around collector of many fine things

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• AUandAG Posts: 25,026 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 5, 2017 6:26PM Answer ✓

  I'd worry about the pewter content.

  bob

  Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  

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• dcarr Posts: 10,027 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 5, 2017 7:49PM Answer ✓

  The Eagle side looks like something that was processed to make it look old, but isn't really.

  That design would make for a neat little silver bar, though.

  Moonlight Mint

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 6, 2017 5:22AM Answer ✓

  @diswin.... Welcome aboard.... Have not seen that piece before, however, looks like a modern commercial piece. Cheers, RickO

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• diswin Posts: 4 ✭

  January 6, 2017 8:48AM Answer ✓

  thanks for all your answers

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,720 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 6, 2017 10:29AM Answer ✓

  These were written up in Coin World's Collector's Clearinghouse and/or in The Numismatist's Featuring Fakes column in the early to mid 1970's, part of a series of fake western ingots typically sold at gun shows and flea markets.

  Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.

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