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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;1jester, post: 812408, member: 62&quot;]Welcome, Axxa!&nbsp; It&#039;s nice to see you and Orpheus over here.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been trying for months to sign up on GoldIsMoney but they simply won&#039;t let me sign up.&nbsp; Anyway, I was doing a google search for some bars and this site came up and then I realized I&#039;ve been a member here for almost a decade!&nbsp; So it&#039;s great to see you guys (and others) over here discussing silver art bars, since I can&#039;t seem to do it on GIM.</p><p><br /></p><p>Victor, as a precautionary measure, I always liberate all my silver from whatever original packaging they&#039;re in because in many cases, the foil/packaging contains PVC, which is a big no-no.&nbsp; Then I give each bar a good rinse in acetone to remove any contaminants, especially poisonous PVC residue, then put the art bars that fit (standard sizes) into Airtites. The ones that don&#039;t fit I put into Saflips (made of harmless Mylar).&nbsp; For bigger bars, I put them into food-quality Zip-Loc bags.&nbsp; I hate the scourge of PVC, which has ruined many of my valuable coins, and many, many holders in use over the past 30 years contain that disgusting poison.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a question for Orpheus or Axxa or whoever might know.&nbsp; I bought a Hamilton Mint American Wildlife collection, in its original box with original mylar-based holders for each of the 50 bars, and they all have simply gorgeous green/blue/turquoise peripheral toning.&nbsp; On the edge of each is stamped the fineness (.999) and some other symbols, and a serial number (0817 in my case).&nbsp; I think I saw on Axxa&#039;s website that this series had a mintage of 250, which, in light of my serial number of 817, doesn&#039;t make sense.&nbsp; Can anyone clarify the mintage of this series?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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