gold bar?

idk if this is the right forum but if i posted pictures of this bar a found metal detecting today can someone tell if its gold or not?

 

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I don't know if there's any guarantee but regardless you will need to post an image to get started with any assistance by the metallurgically inclined, curious and metal detectors on CT!

I for one want to see this... post away!

 

here are some pictures

 

Have you weighed it and/or tested with magnet? Any more markings on the other side(s). Pretty bizarre hunk/loaf of metal you got there...

 

nothin on the other side except that it looks like it ot poured into a mould, it weighs around 6.5 troy oz and a magnet didnt stick to it

 

I'd suggest you get hold of a precious metals testing kit to help figure out what you have.

 

iwas going to go to coin/jwelery store toorrow to see what they say, and where could i get one of those?

 

some coin or jewelry shops sell the testing kits, but the seller at that link I posted sells the kits on eBay, just check their items for sale if you are interested.

 

The bar says 200 grams from what I can see, and my math says it should weigh 6.43014932 ounces, so that's pretty close to the 6.5 you said. Lets hope its real!

 

would be cool for a detector find and you should definitely go back and scour the area for more if you can

 

That's an amazing metal detector find.... I would of loved to see your face pulling it out. BTW what metal detector are you using ?

I have a ace 250 from garett , never found much with it though , let alone a 6.5 oz gold bar.

 

i mostly use my bounty hunter tracker IV

 

Fantastic find! It could be a fairly old Gold Bar, so you might want to do some research on it. Even, if it is a rough bar from an early stage in the refining process like Doug said, it could still fetch a really high price on eBay. It's not every day that someone looses a 200 gram Gold Bar, so it must have been put there intentionally! I know that I would be back at the location looking for it's brothers and sisters as well as it's mom and pop!


Frank

 

This looks like brass or bronze
have it tested

 

i like the swiss credit gold bar. specially the 20 gram.

 

elaine: What does this have to do with the OP?

 

thats what my dad said so im probably going to go and get it tested today, but y would somone make a brass bar?

 

from brass scrap recycling perhaps

 

would they still stamp it?