Is it possible to make silver art bars at home? I have seen people selling 1 gram silver art bars for like $5 and I was thinking it would be a great way to get money out of it. I wanted to buy like war nickels for example (don't kill me here) and melt them down and make art bars and sell them for $5 a gram and then take the money I profited and buy Silver Rounds and high grade coins. So back to the original question, is it possible to make them at home? How would I make the mold etc. PS. Not sure if this is the wrong section, sorry if it is. ALSO: If I'm doing my math correctly, say I buy a 1oz .999 bar for $35, if I sold 1 gram ingots for $5 I would come out with $155/oz so $120 profit per oz? Am I understanding this correctly?
You aren't going to want to melt US coins for this...buy triple-9 bars to melt if you insist on trying this. The sad truth, though, is the equipment you would need to melt the silver would run quite high ($700+) since you have to reach 1000*C...
$700 is you bought everything brand new and top of the line. A set up can be easily had at less than $100.
I just said war nickels because I figured it would **** off the least amount of people on here I would probably use triple 9 bars if I could find them for a relatively decent price.
I never cared about melting silver, but I looked into the equipment to melt my own metal scraps (aluminum, tin, steel, etc) and make bars out of it, rather than giving it to the recyclers. Turned out be too much trouble and expense.
