10 Oz RCM Bar

There is one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAP...043183.m1253

Doesn't appear to be hand poured. But you can tell they do command a nice premium. :)

The RCM never made hand pours in the 10oz size that I know of....The have the stamped bars in which case buy one for you and 1 for me. I've been wanting to get one. Send me a PM.

The link that Amaths posted is an isolated case. I have talked to that seller about buying his bar. I'm surprised it sold for what it did. Must have been bought by a hard core collector. During our conversation he said that the highest he was offered after many months up, and 33 offers later was 525. So you can bank that at today's prices you can sell for 500 each. Great deal if your seller has this same kinda of bar and again, Get one for me! PM ME!

Interesting. With the "ping" test their are a lot of variables to consider. Just holding the screwdriver different or position on the table. Would like to see what others think.
Thanks for sharing.

I would like to see this bar for sure. I'm a bit worried because I have never heard of a 10 oz RCM pour. But then again, if it wasn't for the fact that I own some RCM 1oz bars, I wouldn't know they exist either....no info on the Internet at all that I can find and I've spend hours looking for it. You may have found something even more special.

I'm curious if poboxw or swbxxx might have an answer for us.

i agree with swrbxxx. I've seen, bought, and handled multiple 10oz RCM silver bars. I don't know if they were poured or not because the majority are fairly regular in shape, but the ones I have handled do have rounded corners, stamped lettering, and are more of a square loaf shape then a rectangular bar shape. They are early 80s products and are 999 pure as oppose to 9999. There are collectors of these RCM bars and then tend to sell for a pretty penny above spot. +$2/oz is a very good price IMO.

On second thought, even the most recent of the RCM 100oz bars are technically poured and not pressed I believe. The process is refined but it's still a pouring process as oppose to the process that produces the newer square Engelhard 100oz-ers.

Also, the ping test is really unreliable. Held the right way, I can make a lump of silver sound like lead or a silver clad lead bar ring like solid silver.

The sound test is also used for fine crystal (sp) glass. I believe.

As requested

What exactly are you basing that on? Although there are of course more accurate ways to test silver that are well known and should be employed if the suspected bar doesn't 'ping', the ping test is a quick/easy no-brainer for starters. I know in some cases real silver doesn't ping easily, but if struck under the right conditions (suspended or otherwise unobstructed) it should, and I've never known a fake silver bar to have the high tone long resonance ping like solid silver in my 30 plus years of handing A LOT of silver bullion including more than a few fakes. I should probably note that my senses are unusually acute...