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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor, post: 555301, member: 5454&quot;]<b>Silver art bars</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Recently I purchased an estate coin collection from a lady who works at the same place as I do.&nbsp; Mostly I bought it for the complete set of Franklin halfs and quite a few Walking Liberty halfs.&nbsp; But included also were about 20 one ounce silver bars.&nbsp; I started watching some of them on ebay where they are sold as Art bars and touted as very collectible and some are said to be rare.</p><p>I see some of the buy it now prices listed at $35 to $49.00.</p><p>My investment was probably $10 to $12 each.&nbsp; Some of them like the Boston Tea Party, The General steam locomotive, a San Francisco trolley car, a Model T Ford, a Stanley steamer, The Alamo, etc. are listed as rare.&nbsp; And the asking prices are way up there compared to what I used to think a one ounce bar was worth.</p><p>Now mind you I have paid as much as $17 for a name brand one oz. bar like Englehard.</p><p>A dealer told me he used to collect art bars and there &quot;used to be&quot; quite a following for them.&nbsp; I never paid attention to them focusing more on actual US coinage.&nbsp; But now that I have a collection of them I find they are interesting and unique in their own way.&nbsp; Each is an ounce of .999 fine silver.</p><p>So given all of the above does anyone collect these?&nbsp; And does anyone want to comment on this topic as far as a low end investment goes?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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