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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;1970 Silver Art, post: 1214674, member: 18828&quot;]There was a coin show that I went to today and I found and bought this silver art bar for only $25.00...............................</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/xx54/COScollect/CHATT1Front.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/xx54/COScollect/CHATT1Back.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is a Centennial Chattanooga Choo-Choo art bar (CHAT-1). It was minted in 1980 by Freedom Mint. Serial # A1013. All of you reading this post might find this hard to believe but I paid only $25.00 for it but I did. Here is my story:</p><p><br /></p><p>When I went inside the coin show I saw it in one of the glass cases. There were also two 1970&#039;s Franklin Mint sterling silver bars inside the glass case along with the Choo-Choo silver art bar. I asked him about those bars and the dealer said that those 3 bars were all sterling silver bars. He was wrong on the Choo-Choo art bar because I knew that this bar was NOT sterling silver and it was a 1 oz .999 pure silver bar. So I asked him if that the Choo-Choo bar was really a sterling silver bar. After I asked the coin show dealer that, the dealer picked it up and took out his magnifier to examine the front of the bar. When he saw the &quot;.999 silver One Ounce&quot; stamped on the front, then he mentioned that this was a .999 silver bar. I was familar with this art bar because I bought another Centienial Choo-Choo silver art bar last year but I wanted to buy another one to add to my art bar collection if it was at a decent premium over spot silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>I asked the dealer how much he wanted for the Choo-Choo bar. What he did next was to weigh the bar on his digital scale. It took him a while to weight it. I guess he was double checking the weight of the bar. After what appeared to be a long while, he took the bar off the scale and gave me a price of $25.00. I said to myself........&quot;WHAT??????&quot; Spot silver finished yesterday at $33.85/oz according to Kitco.com and he was selling it to me at $8.85 UNDER SPOT SILVER PRICE. At that point, I was deciding if I wanted to get it. It seemed too good to be true when I first heard that price so I asked that coin show dealer if that bar weighed 1-troy oz. He said that it did not weigh 1 troy oz. He said something about it weighing only &quot;2/3 of an oz&quot;. I thought to myself &quot;HUH?&quot;. So what I did next was to take a chance and buy that Choo-Choo bar for $25.00.</p><p><br /></p><p>After I left the show, I decided to go to one of the coin shops in that area to get them to weigh this bar for me. I did not want to believe that this bar weighed well under 1 troy oz. The coin shop employee weighed the silver bar and it weighed 1 troy oz and I saw the reading for myself. Clearly this was an error on the coin show dealer&#039;s part but I suspect that he was using sterling silver conversions to figure out how much .999 pure silver was contained in this bar but I do not understand that because he clearly saw that it was .999 pure silver stamped on the bar and it weighed 1 troy oz when I took it to a coin dealer that was far away from the coin show. I suspect that he was trying to weigh this like a sterling silver bar and priced it like a sterling silver art bar despite the fact that the weight and purity was cleary stamped on the bar. I am just guessing on my part for why the dealer was asking for only $25 for a 1 troy oz .999 silver art bar when spot silver finished yesterday at $33.85/oz (Kitco quote). </p><p><br /></p><p>I thought to myself.........I ended up getting this 1-oz silver art bar $25 which was well under spot because this dealer somehow kept thinking that this was sterling silver. I am not complaining because that was the price he gave me and I agreed to it. This ended up being one of my best finds of this year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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