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Message:: [QUOTE="1970 Silver Art, post: 1394905, member: 18828"]I am going to make a wild guess by saying that, based on your description in that post, then it is probably a Greathouse Hamilton Mint bar that was minted in 1977.  The mintage number for this particular bar is 180 according to the 4th edition silver art bar price guide. The initials that you are probably seeing are really  "H M 77 P" in which "H M" stands for Hamilton Mint and "77" in the mint year of 1977 and "P" stands for proof.  If all of that is correct, then it is listed as a GreatHouse silver art bar in the 4th edition silver art bar guidebook and the reverse should be blank.   On the bottom of the front of the bar, it should have initials of "NJG" on the lower left hand side of the front of the bar and on the lower right hand side on the front of the bar, it should have the initials of "TRG".   Generally speaking, In my past experience, Greathouse silver art bars are very hard to find at coin shows and at LCS because of the low mintage numbers.  Based on what you described in your post, then I suspect that this bar is a Greathouse Hamilton Mint "Pledge of Allegiance" bar and if that is the case, then that is an excellent find IMO.[/QUOTE]