silver rounds
Hyperion
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so who produces all these annonymous silver rounds floating around in the 'bay (ebay).
the mercury dime heads, crazy art rounds, rounds with 1/2 naked ladies on them, rounds that have inclusive designs,etc..
Where do they all come from !
Are the trustworthy ? or are they all silver plated junk from China ?!? (like those plated pandas?!?)
Inquiring minds want to know !
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The following is an alphabetical listing of private mints in the United States that are known to Coin World, but is by no means a complete list of each and every production facility in business
THE ALASKA MINTproduces a number of custom medals, including these two silver medals highlighted in gold.
Alaska Mint: 429 W. Fourth Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501, (907) 278-8414, (800) 770-6468, info@alaskamint.com, www.alaskamint.com/. The Alaska Mint is the starting point for Anchorage events such as the Iditarod Sled Dog Race and the Fur Rendezvous winter festival. The firm produces custom medals for any purpose and is responsible for the production of the annual official Alaska state medallion.
BEX Engraving Co. Inc.: 1101 E. Ash Ave., Ste. C, Fullerton, CA 92831, (714) 879-6593, (800) 330-0003, fax (714) 879-6596, info@bexengraving.com, www.bexengraving.com/. Since 1973, specialists in custom minting, custom dies and custom engraving. Producer of custom medals for police or fire departments, government, military and municipal entities, as well as commemorative medals for a person or special event.
The Collectors Mint (a division of the Money Company): 5959 Tampa Ave., Tarzana, CA 91356, (818) 609-7666, moneyco@earthlink.net. Can do custom work. Has artists and engravers to design and hand-engrave steel dies. Contracts with two other private mints for striking. Works with platinum, gold, gold-filled materials, silver, bronze and copper-nickel in a variety of sizes (depending on the metal, from 1 gram to 5 pounds).
Continental Coin & Jewelry Corp.: 5627 Sepulveda Blvd., Van Nuys, CA 91411, (818) 781-4232, fax (818) 782-6779. Company produces monetized coins, tokens, medals, art bars, casino tokens, premium incentives, quarter-ounce to 1-pound silver pieces. Services offered include planchets, business strikes or Proof strikes, complete packaging services, encapsulation and fulfillment and an in-house design staff. Metals include copper, nickel, bronze, brass, silver, gold and platinum, and bimetallic pieces. Refining facilities are on premises. Serving customers since 1964.
Evergreen Mint Inc.: 3406 Arctic Blvd., Anchorage, AK 99503, (907) 561-0900, fax 907-563-8547, www.evergreen mint.com/. Since 1994, the private mint has been producing custom minted medals for all occasions, in base and precious metals, including its American Medallion Series, memorial medallions and medallion jewelry.
THE GALLERY MINT is noted for its reproductions of early U.S. coins, including this 1792 Birch cent.
Gallery Mint: Box 706, Eureka Springs, AR 72632, (479) 253-5055, fax (479) 253-5056, gmm@arkansas.net, www.gallery mint.com. Chief Engraver Ron Landis, after more than a decade of demonstrating early coin making techniques at art shows and renaissance festivals, teamed up with machinist Joe Rust in 1992 to found the private mint, whose mission is to build a permanent museum showing the evolution of coin-making technology from ancient Greece through the Industrial Revolution. Produces reproductions of early United States coins using hand-engraved dies and 200-year-old coin production techniques used to produce the original coins in the original coin metals. Among copies produced are 1786 New Jersey and 1787 New Jersey coppers; 1793 Liberty Cap half cent; 1793 Flowing Hair, Chain cent; 1793 Flowing Hair, Wreath cent; 1793 Liberty Cap cent; and 1795 Capped Bust gold $5 half eagle. Also produced were the 1993 GMM medal, 1994 GMM medal, 1995 Concept dollar, Statue of Liberty and Lady Liberty dollar pattern concept pieces, and a Rho Delta medal.
Golden State Mint Inc.: P.O. Box 10038, San Bernardino, CA 92423, (909) 792-2324, fax (909) 792-2815, info@goldenstate-mint.com, www.goldenstate-mint.com/. Mints pieces for special occasions, business anniversaries, club awards, commemorative medals for corporate, governmental, military and private entities using silver, gold, copper, bronze, pewter and nickel-silver in a variety of sizes and shapes. Can also perform gold plating, select gold plating and enameling.
Highland Mint: 4100 N. Riverside Drive, Melbourne, FL 32937, (800) 544-6135, www.highlandmint.com/. The company produces commemorative medals, tokens, business logos and award medals, bullion products in various sizes and weights and metal key chains. Products are produced in gold, silver, bronze, brass and aluminum. The company can assist customers in designing products. The art department is headed by Caesar Rufo, a medallic sculptor with works on permanent display in major cities in the United States including the Metropolitan Opera House, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington Cathedral in the District of Columbia, La Scala Opera House in Milan, Italy, as well as at more than 500 universities and colleges around the country.
THE NATION'S 42nd president is depicted on this official inaugural medal produced by Hoffman & Hoffman, now known as the Hoffman Mint.
Hoffman Mint (formerly Hoffman & Hoffman): P.O. Box 896, Carmel, CA 93921, (800) 227-5813, (831) 625-5333, fax (831) 649-3318, sales@hoffman mint.com, www.hoffmanmint.com. Founded in 1980. Hoffman Mint is the largest private mint on the West Coast, and produces millions of tokens, coins, medals, medallions, key tags, name plates and ID plates each month for both national and international clients, according to firm. Also makes tokens for arcades, car washes, batting cages, transit tokens, sports coins and advertising specialties. Produced official 1993 Clinton inaugural medal, Bush Library series, dinosaur issues and calendar medal series. Metals include brass and bronze alloys, gold, and silver.
Honolulu Mint: 99-1376 Koaha Place, Aiea, HI 96701-3200, (808) 486-6468, (800) 580-6468, fax (808) 487-3159, hcordiano@stevenlee.net, www.honolulu-mint.com. Steven Lee founded the Honolulu Mint in 1985. Produced 1989 medal celebrating bicentennial of the Chinese arrival to the Hawaiian Islands, and has produced medallic Proof commemoratives for the Arizona Memorial Museum Association in Pearl Harbor, the battleship USS Missouri, the Bishop Museum, Iolani Palace, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library and various state of Hawaii departments such as the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Millennium Commission.
Masterpiece Medallions: 697 Scripps Drive, Claremont, CA 91711, gleemedals@aol.com, (909) 626-3393. Lee and Joyce Kuntz, owners. Have produced a number of medallions for Early American Coppers Inc. depicting rare varieties of early U.S. copper coinage
MEDALCRAFT MINT struck the official presidential inaugural medal in 2001 (shown) and 2005.
The Medalcraft Mint Inc.: 2660 W. Mason St., Green Bay, WI 54303, (920) 499-4249, info@medalcraft.com, www.medalcraft.com. Known for its designing, engraving and striking of high-relief, die-struck products. Has staff of engravers and sculptors who can produce plaster models for reduction in cutting dies into steel, or directly hand-cut a design into the steel in the negative. Has press room, plating and polishing operations, and an enamel department. Complete computer graphics department that can turn ideas into producible designs. Works in brass, nickel-silver and copper, plus any precious metal, including .999 fine silver ingots and rounds. Will provide quotes on any size piece, in any metal, that can be produced by striking with a steel die. Can strike from quarter-inch diameter to 6-inch diameter die-struck pieces. Produced the official presidential inaugural medals in 2001 and 2005 for George W. Bush.
Medallic Art Co. Ltd.: 80 Airpark Vista Blvd., Dayton, NV 89403, (800) 843-9854, (775) 246-6000, fax (775) 246-6006, minted@medallic.com, www.medallic.com.
KNOWN FOR striking some of the best-known medals worldwide, Medallic Art Company struck the official presidential inaugural medal in 1989.
Mints some of the best-known medals in the world, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Peabody Awards, the Medal of Honor, and portrait and presidential inaugural medals. French sculptor Henry Weil founded Medallic Art Co. in 1903. Produces commemorative pieces for major corporations, foundations and associations. The company has reproduced bas-relief work of famous 20th century American sculptors, including Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French, Herbert Adams and Gutzon Borglum.
Medallic Art grew in New York before moving to Danbury, Conn., in 1972, and continued in Connecticut until 1991 when it was acquired by Tri-State Mint, Sioux Falls, S.D. Initially, Tri-State Mint operated Medallic Art as a division of its precious metals minting company, but eventually Tri-State Mint changed its name. Today all operations exist under Medallic Art Co. Ltd.
In 1997, Medallic Art Co. relocated to its present 115,000 square foot facilities in Dayton, Nev., just minutes from the Comstock Lode silver mines and Nevada gold fields of the 1850s. The company has a design department and die engravers to assist customers from design concept through finished product. Products can be produced in gold, silver, pewter, nickel-silver, copper, brass, aluminum, and a variety of specialty alloys.
and they are all reputable. While the vast majority of rounds and bars on the market are legitimate
and good silver there are a few pitfalls. There are hand punches with which anyone can mark something
999 or sterling. There are a few plated rounds like some of the presidential series. There are also alterred
bars like 100 Oz's that have been drilled out and most of the silver replaced. These can all be pretty decep-
tive but usually can be gaurded against.