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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;1970 Silver Art, post: 1046740, member: 18828&quot;]A Dansco album is a good album to put Coca-Cola silver art bars in them.&nbsp; I would recommend the Dansco silver art bar album that will show case the Coca-Cola silver art bars in a vertical fashion (like in your picture).&nbsp; The Dansco album that you should look for is Dansco album # 7086.&nbsp;&nbsp; There is also a red album that is specifically made for holding Coca-Cola silver art bars but they are hard to find on ebay.&nbsp; The Dansco album # 7086 is your best bet IMO to showcase your Coca-Cola bars.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That Orangeburg, S.C. Coca-Cola silver art bar was minted by the World Wide Mint in 1979.&nbsp; There are two types of this particular Orangeburg, S.C silver art bar that was minted in 1979.&nbsp; The first type was a regular 1-oz .999 silver bar.&nbsp; The second type was a &quot;silver-filled&quot; art bar.&nbsp; According to the second edition of Thomas Mock&#039;s book titled &quot;Coca-Cola Bottler&#039;s 75th Anniversary Ingot and Guide Book 1975 to 1988&quot;, the silver filled ingots had a copper middle layer that was covered in silver.&nbsp; Thomas Mock&#039;s Coca-Cola guide book also mentioned that there were a total of 11 different &quot;silver-filled&quot; Coca-Cola bars that The World Wide Mint minted and the reason for the creation of the &quot;silver-filled&quot; bars was to control its costs since the silver price spiked up in 1979-1980. The &quot;silver-filled&quot; ingot is NOT a .999 pure silver art bar.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Besides weighing it, There is a way you can tell if that Orangeburg Coca-Cola bar is either .999 silver or &quot;silver-filled&quot;.&nbsp; The weight and purity of each of the Coca-Cola silver art bars is stamped on the side of the bar.&nbsp; If it is .999 silver, then it will say &quot;One Troy OZ .999 Fine Silver&quot; on the side.&nbsp; If it is a &quot;silver-filled&quot; Coca-Cola bar, then I believe that it will say something like &quot;Sterling&quot; on the side of the bar but I am not 100% sure on that.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Also according to Thomas Mock&#039;s Coca-Cola guidebook, The &quot;silver-filled&quot; version of the Orangeburg Coca-Cola bar has an value of $500 and an unknown mintage and the .999 pure silver version of the Orangeburg Coca-Cola bar has a value of $100 with a mintage of 1,200.&nbsp; With that said, most Coca-Cola silver art bars will not sell for guidebook price on ebay.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;silver-filled&quot; version of the Orangeburg Coca-Cola bar is very hard to find anywhere locally or online.&nbsp; Based on my observations of watching ebay auctions on Coca-Cola bars, I have not seen the &quot;silver-filled&quot; version of the Orangeburg Coca-Cola art bar on ebay.&nbsp; Also, I have never seen the .999 pure silver version of the Orangeburg Coca-Cola bar sell on ebay.&nbsp; I suspect that both the .999 pure silver and the &quot;silver-filled&quot; versions will probably have sell for a lot of money on ebay since apparently it is a hard-to-find Coca-Cola art bar. </p><p><br /></p><p>I also collect Coca-Cola bars and those Coca-Cola bars are one of my favorite types of silver art bars to collect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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