Moffat & CO Bars (Fake)

Thanks for the input. The ebay listing I referenced in my original post indicated that these might be Fantasy Bars struck in the late 50's / early 60's. The timing is right given the other items I found the bars with. Just trying to track down who made them (maybe the why) and what they are made of.

Whenever you see something like this, puporting to be historic 19th C. bullion, it helps to compare to authentic bullion.
An important detail that's often forgotten, even by these bar forgers, is that modern style letter and date punches simply did not exist in the 19th Century. Genuine historic bullion has punches that reflect the styles of the era. Obviously, old punches are very hard to locate today, so fake bullion is usually easy to spot.

Here's a good example...a gold bar that went down with the SS Central America in 1857.

Lead or pewter would be a darker grey patina in coloring if they were from the 50's.
Look more like silver from the pic's
This is a silver bar from the exchange silver cert's in the 70's:



Just to give you an idea of the coloring of silver over time, This piece is in a unsealed curio cabinet. For most of that time.
Get a metals testing kit, with the needles, acid and stone most any jewelry supply sells them. will take all guess work out of them.

My kit came with out the fancy wood box and glass bottles but works just as well. or take one into the local silver buying shop and see what they will offer after they test it!