I picked this up from the Sydney stacker meet today. Its the new Southern Cross 1 kilo cast bar. Its really nice! Note... swirls! It comes sealed in plastic (still on the bar in the images below.) Its the middle bar below: Time to get rid of that OPM bar if anyone wants some cheap silver.
The OPM bar looks bigger, both in terms of thickness and height. There was the same issue on a video I saw on youtube, with a guy saying that the bar he bought was smaller than his other bars, in spite of being the same weight, and all bars being silver. He said that the silver might have been "pressed harder". But this seems strange to me. So, why some bars are bigger than others??
Interesting observation! Looking at the two bars, that is also my general feeling. Its a bit hard to compare the bars with the plastic still on the Southern Cross bar, but I tried to take a couple of closeup pics. The OPM is tapered which might give the illusion that it is bigger than it is.
Not keen on 'shrink wrapped' bars after both my Geigers got random markings. Still looks good though. What was the premium?
best looking kilo bar Ive ever seen. House, What type of markings did your Geigers get and how old were they ? Mine arent marked yet and still look beaut (around 12 months old)
Got the 10oz when it first came out. Put it in storage for a bout 6m and it looks as if the frosting had dried and there was a long rustic coloured line going across it (as if something had been placed on top). Same for the 5kg bar though thankfully just slightly marked.
Should I take it out of the plastic shrink wrap? Is there a risk the plastic will outgass and do something strange to the silver?
Honestly don't know as those are the only two I have like that. There's a few members on here that are adamant any form of plastic is bad for silver and dispose of it every time. Maybe I just got unlucky?
Are you game to try the bucket of water test to find out? If one is simply poured and the other pressed, I would have expected the poured to have been the bigger from the possibility of being more 'airy'. All things being equal, density is one determinant of species and so there shouldn't be a true volume difference for the same purity metal
