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    My favorite 1970's silver art bar "finds"

    Dick, I speak both dutch and french :-) You can email my through my site if you want to contact me. Geert.
    Post by: orpheus72, Jun 27, 2011 in forum: Coin Chat
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    My favorite 1970's silver art bar "finds"

    Dirk, Finding these bars in Belgium/Netherlands is not that obvious. I obtain my bars through friends/collectors in the USA, and sometimes you...
    Post by: orpheus72, Jun 27, 2011 in forum: Coin Chat
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    My favorite 1970's silver art bar "finds"

    Heddenlaw, For me, the 'indexed guide book of silver art bars' is the 'the bible' for collecting silver art bars. The Fifth edition is the...
    Post by: orpheus72, Jun 10, 2011 in forum: Coin Chat
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    My favorite 1970's silver art bar "finds"

    Hi Heddenlaw, I've attached the page from Archie Kidd's 'An indexed guidebook of Silver Art Bars Vol V' concerning the Bleugrass Mint. This...
    Post by: orpheus72, Jun 10, 2011 in forum: Coin Chat
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    My favorite 1970's silver art bar "finds"

    This is a 'SilverTowne Mint' bar for sure. With this type of reverse side (type 15), it is known as ST-24V3 , minted in 1989 with an unknown mintage.
    Post by: orpheus72, Oct 5, 2010 in forum: Coin Chat
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    My favorite 1970's silver art bar "finds"

    It's most likely a 'SilverTowne Mint' bar ST-24 , minted in 1983 (but i can't tell for sure w/o seeing the reverse side of the bar)
    Post by: orpheus72, Oct 5, 2010 in forum: Coin Chat
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    My favorite 1970's silver art bar "finds"

    Hang on to that bar 1970SilverArt as it is a fairly rare one. It was minted in less than 1500 pieces in 1980 by a not yet determined mint (most...
    Post by: orpheus72, Oct 2, 2010 in forum: Coin Chat
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    My favorite 1970's silver art bar "finds"

    You're going to have a hard time finding the 'Greathouse' and 'The Mint' bars at your local dealer imo. A Cancelled die bar is even harder to find...
    Post by: orpheus72, Apr 7, 2010 in forum: Coin Chat
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    My favorite 1970's silver art bar "finds"

    1970 Silver Art, I've done the same thing a couple of months ago, and only kept the ones i really loved. I'm going to keep my collction within 5...
    Post by: orpheus72, Apr 7, 2010 in forum: Coin Chat
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    Ebay purchase of a Hamilton Mint silver art bar

    You are right 1970 Silver Art, it is from the 'America the Beautiful' series. It's HAM-492 'American Eagle' minted in 1974 with a mintage of...
    Post by: orpheus72, Feb 14, 2010 in forum: Coin Chat
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    My favorite 1970's silver art bar "finds"

    No problem, JFK, i'm happy to help a fellow art bar collector. According the mintage numbers, there should be 10.000 sets of silver bars and...
    Post by: orpheus72, Dec 12, 2009 in forum: Coin Chat
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    My favorite 1970's silver art bar "finds"

    'The Columbia Mint' has just done one series of bars, the 'Greatest events of the american revolution'. All the bars are struck by World Wide...
    Post by: orpheus72, Dec 12, 2009 in forum: Coin Chat
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    Last silver coin

    The Austrian Mint still issues Silver coins for circulation (mintage of approx. 200.000 pc). They issue 2 different 5 Euro coins each year (all...
    Post by: orpheus72, Jul 31, 2009 in forum: Coin Chat
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    My favorite 1970's silver art bar "finds"

    Yesterday my latest addition to my MLM-bars has arrived. It is a Mother Lode Mint's 'Coin Press' (MLM-24) that had a mintage of 2500 pieces. The...
    Post by: orpheus72, Jul 23, 2009 in forum: Coin Chat
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    My favorite 1970's silver art bar "finds"

    Yes cloudsweeper, there is a book that we consider as our 'bible', and it's called "An Indexed Guide Book of Silver Art Bars" that was issued by...
    Post by: orpheus72, Jul 20, 2009 in forum: Coin Chat