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

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• DNADave Posts: 7,303 ✭✭✭✭✭

  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: 24,930 ✭✭✭✭✭

  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: 9,092 ✭✭✭✭✭

  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: 32,720 ✭✭✭✭✭

  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. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.

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