Hi Friends,
So I was out yesterday with a few extra spondulicks in my pocket and thought I’d go past one of my spots, and, Bingo! I asked if they had any old bars or foreign national coins and out came a few normies and one of these:
Woot woot! An old style “big box” JM bar. The guy said they had a few more, so I asked if he had 9 more — And he did!!! So I grabbed 10 of them for $370 Cad and went out to the car. Once in my car I realized that they were all very tight in their serial numbers, and there were even a couple pairs and a triplet. So I did the only rational thing: I went back in and bought the rest of them which numbered 5.
And so all told, I got 15oz of vintage silver. I have a least one run of 5 in a row, and a couple triples, but there are two bars with weird serial stamps and haven’t got the loop on them yet.
But even without the serialization, I was plenty happy to get some more of these. The pics aren’t the greatest (most of them are pretty clean) but I shot them in the evening.
Enjoy this hearty haul — I’d bet whomever had these all together has had them, or received them, from a stack from the way back.
It would’a taken some old Engelhards to make me any giddier. So onward and upward — stack ‘em high!
