Perth Mint silver bar styles

20 oz Perth mint Swirly Bar.


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Perth Mint 20oz bar, vintage style. I am surprised to see how thin they are compared to other vintage bar...thinner than all of 10oz perth mint bar.

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Golden ChipMunk said:
Not from the mint.
This one from a private collectors. They know what I want.
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If you want it so much why is it in your signature for sale?

Chip the Flip.
 
Oh. My apologies. It's just if I stayed close to Perth Mint, I would visit every single day to see their buy backs. Definitely bound to find a vintage bar at normal price. :)
 
Pics added, also with these old bars, obviously more sought after because there are not that many of them. Is there a collection of these at the mint? Like a museum?
 
that's a really nice bar Chris, no, i don't think perth mint collect them, i just went there this morning.
 
You would think the mint would keep examples of older bars on display, a lot of history is lost or destroyed, kind of a shame......
 
If I'm not wrong, I read somewhere that they get tax relief for melting down old bars? Not sure if I dreamt of this. Haha!
 
Some Perth Mint 50oz bars:

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Left is 111x54x25mm, right is 112x56x23mm. Definitely different casting moulds and processes - the left has a cooling dimple which the modern production bars don't have.
 
Here is a 1kg bar I got a couple of years ago, it has the current stamp but the finish is rather unique (swirls instead of the flat dull finish). Nothing like any other current 1kg bar I have seen pictures of.

Does anyone have anymore info about them? I have a few like this but this is the pick out of them.


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PM's website says no, do not sell.

However considering it is on the LBMA Good Delivery Lists, I would have thought they would.

Maybe Bron can help ?
 
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