Usvi Ingot Company, Complete Catalog Of Silver Ingots

I introduced the story of the USVI Ingot Company in the following two posts.

http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/...OPIC_ID=6033

https://goccf.com/t/50086

Since writing those I have acquired photos of several more of our products.
I am putting them here to make a complete (I hope) catalog of all silver bars and rounds made by the
USVI Ingot Co. aka U.S.V.I. Ingot Co.

All the silver processed by the USVI Ingot Co. was originally large ingots (800 oz through 1400 oz)
stamped Johnson Matthey or Engelhard or occasionally another well known refiner such as
Northwest Territorial Mines.
Silver was supplied by Amark, Monex, or Anaheim Metal Co. Two brothers had attempted to monopolize
the silver market and control prices by buying up huge quantities of refined silver.
They were successful enough that prices began to rise, almost to $50 per oz.
Anti-trust courts ordered them to sell off assets, so many large precious metals
firms stepped in to buy all that excess metal and control release onto the market.
Our job was to convert the large silver pieces into smaller units.

The large bars were cut into chunks, melted in a floor furnace, and poured either into silver shot or
molded billets.
Shot was weighed, then kiln melted in small round graphite trays, creating melted planchets.
Billets were extruded in a huge industrial machine to create ribbons of silver in
various thicknesses and widths, then cut to length to make planchets.
Weight was controlled by varying slightly the length of the cut using an electronic scale to
monitor each piece as it was cut.
All planchets were burnished with stainless steel shot in a tumbler.
At this point the planchets were ready for stamping in a punch press or hydraulic press.


There are some paper ephemera items I remember which are not yet photographed, to my knowledge.
It was promotional material several pages long.
It was printed on white textured paper, was embossed with raised areas.
There were silver foil decals (maybe stickers) that looked like our ingots,
as well as several designs that were never stamped in silver metal.
One of the ingots made in foil and featured in the brochure was
the 1 Oz. flat stacking bar which was produced.

SLIDESHOW
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Early rounds, 7 known styles







Quote from an email from Howard Eichen, designer of the early USVI Ingot Co. rounds and company founder:

I'm thrilled that you have kept USVI alive.
I have seven of the original intaglio sculptures that were reduced into coin size steel dies.

1. Roman Head
2. Chariot
3. Sun Symbol
4. Pisces
5. Rams Head
6. Bull
7. Mayan Head

4 reverse dies, early rounds