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Valued Member
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local guy is selling these, anyway to tell if the are real?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A good weight scale, magnet, maybe a ping test, a local store that has a XRF analyzer that can go deep. Maybe you could buy them on condition if they test bad you'll get your money back.
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07/11/2023 8:33 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hondo Boguss, that is a cool site about Engelhard bars. I have a 100 oz one from about 1986 my dad gave me.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You're welcome, kennedy. Livingwater, they have a page for 100 oz in case you hadn't found it.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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XRF doesn't go deep, unfortunately.
A well established bullion dealer can X Ray, ultrasound or magnetic resonance test.
A bullion dealer may have a standing contract with a competent materials testing laboratory; as a customer, you may have to wait a few days for the result.
Basic magnet test can sometimes provide cheap but fast supporting test info.
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Thx for helping me learn something today @hondo. I hadn't known about that website before.
"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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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Spence, I didn't know about it myself before kennedy inspired me to look. I figured that if they had serial numbers, there must be a registry. Englehard also has a page about counterfeits, but I did not explore it.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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How much are they asking for each?
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$300 each or trade for a car
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United States
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Sooo compared them to the ones on the englehard page referenced above and figured out the 2 with P ser no are the most common US variety, am wondering about P142159, top two lines are stamped at an angle, the other 3 are the most common Canadian variety
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