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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;1970 Silver Art, post: 1159841, member: 18828&quot;]Japanese silver art from the 1980&#039;s............................</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/xx54/COScollect/USStampFront.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/xx54/COScollect/USStampBack.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is a 1-oz &quot;U.S. Postage - Five Cents&quot; silver art bar.&nbsp; While this was not on my silver art bar wish list, I bought it because of the interesting shape of this silver art bar.&nbsp; It is shaped like a large postage stamp.&nbsp; I also like the smooth enameled finish that makes it great to look at.&nbsp; I had to use the flash feature of my digital camara to get a decent shot of front side of this bar because the enamel surface area is too dark to take pictures of it in the outside natural light.&nbsp; If I tried to take the picture without the flash, then it would be too dark to see the enameled detail on the front side of this art bar. </p><p><br /></p><p>When I first bought this ar bar, I did not know anything about it except that it was made in Japan.&nbsp; I had to email another silver art bar collector to give me what information he had on this bar.&nbsp; One of my silver art bar price guides also had some limited information on this silver art bar.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 6th edition of the guidebook called &quot;An Indexed Guide Book of Silver Art Bars&quot; mentions that this art bar is part of a 50-bar set.&nbsp; The 6th edition book does not list all of the bars in the set but there are a couple of illustrations of the bars that have the same reverse type as mine.&nbsp; I do not know exacly what year this was minted but I suspect that it was minted in the early 1980&#039;s because the two bars mentioned in the guidebook were minted in 1981 and 1982.&nbsp; The mintage number is unknown since there is no mintage number listed in the art bar guidebook.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I bought this silver art bar at a coin show that I went to in Dalton, Georgia last Friday (April 15) and I paid $50 for it (4-15-2011 spot silver = $43.05/oz). Serial # 33.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A very interesting silver art bar IMO.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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