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I can't find these anywhere on the Internet but here are some pics. Apparently they made 400 bronze bars & 400 silver bars with this design. I'm really just trying to figure out what they are worth (if anything).  |
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That's a new one on me! Please try to show your pics right-side up - you'll get a better response.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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It is a novelty medallion made by a third party.
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Bedrock of the Community
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From the image, they don't even look like the real deal from what I can see. Oh, just read, they are not real. It is an ingot. Not coins.
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@nc808, it appears as though these things are somewhat collectible. Here is an excerpt from a completed ebay auction listing: Quote:
Don had a large following, buyers bought from him by subscription.
Now retired, Don Adams was a commercial roller with a large client base. He was one of the early members of TEC and I believe he is a charter member. Mr. Adams designed and rolled a plethora of elongates. He destroyed most of his dies after he was finished satisfying his subscribers, thus assuring a limited number of pieces. . He covered many different subjects, stamps, coins, the US Bi-centennial are but a few. Some of his Type Coin issues are quite scarce, especially the ones depicting US silver type coins. I have found several different issues depicting stamps, coins and Bicentennial coins in my hoard. I'll list them as I can find them and take pictures. I'm going to recommend to the mods that this thread be moved over to the tokens and exonumia section of CCF. Perhaps @circus can provide additional detail. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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The silver bars are one ounce and are worth spot plus maybe a dollar or two, when any of the silver art bars or rounds come up for sale it is hard to get anything above spot price the certificates aren't worth anything. Just another way of hooking people like all the stuff that they sell in the magazines and newspapers. The bronze one might bring a couple of bucks, the ebay blurb is just more hype like any of the Franklin mint bars. My father bought a 5 pound coin repro because he liked the design, he bought it from the British mint located in Denver Colo. The LCS offers all sorts of art bars on lots of subjects, he gets them from the bulk bullion dealers, people that have them minted and when sales drop off the sell the silver back to the bullion dealers. I have a number or interesting art bars and rounds in my stack of silver for the grand kids.   Both of the above are worth spot plus $1.50 what the LCS is currently charging for bars and rounds assorted subjects. the older or more current subjects are $20.00 Edited by Circus
07/13/2019 6:50 pm
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Thanks for the info @circus!
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Posted 07/13/2019 12:19 pm
