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Posted 7 months ago
jimborasco
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Given to me at Christmas time by a friend. I was production manager at a newspaper near us. He was the recycle man who I sold our recycle material, such as aluminum printing plates, used film negatives, and recovered silver. He had these made out of the recovered silver and the silver rendered from the film negatives. He gave these to me every year until they became too expensive to have made. He told me once, 2009, i believe, it cost 27$ apiece to have made. I can understand why he couldn't give out any more.
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jimborasco - these are mass produced Christmas Rounds made by many different Silver Companies such as American Mint, Englehard, Nevada Metallurgical, Sunshine Mining, Burton Mint, Columbia Mint, etc. - It looks like most of those shown (al least the four along the bottom for sure) were produced by a company called Silver Towne Mint. They look like they are all marked with the .999 pure silver 1 troy ounce. Most of mine were bought during the 80's and 90's when silver prices were very low.
mustangtony, yep, all are .999 and a troy oz.
The bottom four are confirmed to be Silver Towne issues. I believe the blank space on the reverse was in case the purchaser wanted to have a personalized engraving applied when presenting it as a gift. Currently the silver spot price is just under $32 an ounce. Remember a troy ounce contains more than a regular ounce. One troy ounce = 31.103 grams & one regular ounce = 28.35 grams.
Charming collection, and a delightful account of a good and kind friend!!
Thank you miKKo. Yep, he's a good guy. Now when i see him, we just talk horses. But, not a bad subject. Jimbo
Thanks for the love BELLIN and mustang
your very welcome Jim:)