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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rte, post: 8459372, member: 78199&quot;]Anyone else have any crazy pictures of altered bars?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1499015[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Years ago I was at my local gold and silver store, in the dollar over box were two chunks of a Johnson Matthey old pour silver bar.</p><p><br /></p><p>Looked like someone cut a 10 ounce bar in half and removed the serial number portion. (Top half and bottom half)</p><p>It just screamed stolen bar...</p><p>I almost bought it just because you could still see the Johnson Matthey stamps and recognize it was a Johnson Matthey old pour bar.</p><p>I passed it over...three weeks later looking through the $1 over spot box I found another chunk of a bar.</p><p>(This chunk was stamped 20 OZ)</p><p>I asked if they still had the other two pieces from weeks ago??</p><p>The owner said yes they put them in back headed for the scrap bucket.</p><p>He dug them out and we put them together...turned out someone cut a 20 ounce Johnson Matthey old pour Silver bar in three pieces.</p><p>It was a low mintage old pour bar without the stamped serial number.</p><p>A premium bar IF complete we&#039;ll worth 2x spot.</p><p>I was now intrigued, why would someone do this?</p><p>I told the owner to weigh it up and I&#039;ll give him a dollar over spot.</p><p>He said NO WAY, not for sale yet it&#039;s going into the case as a conversion piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>I stated that if I didn&#039;t find the missing chunk you were willing to sell it for scrap, but now it&#039;s a hot commodity?</p><p>He said YEP, you should have bought it the first time you saw it...let that be a lesson (we all had a good laugh)</p><p>I saw it in the case for another three weeks</p><p>or so priced at a premium, but I wasn&#039;t that guy...someone paid a premium to have it. as it disappeared.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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