Nevada
               The Silver State


In realty should have been named the Gold State as everthing thing that goes up must come down Issac Newton theory, so as it goes Gold was discovered in Calfornia and started the gold rush of 1848 with the snow melting and the rivers flowing gold was discovered came from Nevada, as now the 3 largest places gold is  Australia, Africa, and Nevada in the United States, at Winnemucca, and Elko and surrounding areas in northern Nevada.
As all the miners were looking for gold they overlooked the silver. The Comstock mine was found and a claim was made after the black substance was assayed was found to be silver, 
 Discovered by Mr Hearst (newspaper man later)  later started newspaper in San Francisco,.


On with the silver in the 1870's  with silver been discovered what to do with it.
Senators from Nevada went to federal goverment to  use this for coins ,silver dollars  and other coins ie Carson City dollars ,  which are the most sought after Morgan dollars.
Carson City Mint is now a museum and a wonderful place to visit I personally have been there many times.
Carson City was named after Kit Carson, Frontiersman, Indian Scout,.
U.S. silver dollars  Morgan, Peace are 90% silver or .900 fine silver.
U.S American Eagles are .999 pure silver  1 oz so depending on the grade and year how much more value. over bullion price.
U.S. American Eagles Proof this is not a grade this is the way they are made;
We will explain further on page.
.999 silver Bullion made in all shapes and sizes most are ingot(bars) or rounds (medallions) from same sizes of 1/10 ounce to 1000  ounce bricks.
Spot price: is a 1000 oz brick at New York price  NOT DELIVERED  this is how silver price is spot to get silver from ground to smelters to have a product that can be sold.
Investment silver; Large mints buy these 1000 oz bricks including the federal Goverment at spot price, 
Private mints Englehard, J/M, Refco/Simmons, Rarity Mint...
 we didn't name them all.
Strike or mint their bars or rounds so if you take a 1000 oz brick and make 10 100 oz bars the mint has a smaller cost in this bar.
if you take the 1000 and make 10oz bars they will have 100 to sell and price a little higher.
The smaller the size the more money same time involved .
Art Bars came out in 1969 some little before that , but more demand around 1972 and they sold for $3.50 to $4.00 each and you could have just about anything on those little bars, Trains(General) came in 2 version as 1 was an error.
They made albums for your art bars and those cute little bars  looked so nice in those pages.



1979-1980   over $50 a ounce(I  was there in that run) Silver was climbing as it is today back then the names the had the silver market was Horence and Bunker Hunt otherwise know  as the Hunt Bros , oilmen from Texas
The price steadily climbed  as the price went up , more sold those cute little art  bars, coins, silverware, Forks, Spoons , Knives had weight , but were paid less because was knife and had to be separated from silver part.
A lot of those art bars were melted down so mintages that are listed in the silver  art bars guide book  by Archie Kidd 1-5 Editions  are not real accurate now as so many were melted.
Crown Beauties 5,000 were made  hard set to find
Holiday Beauties  they made an album that had all 24 in 1 set real rare.
Most of the art bars are  1 oz , look close some say 15 or 20 grams as a ounce is 31.1 grams.
Some art Bars or Rounds they made only a few ie 
The Lone Ranger only 20 made.
as there is plenty of money that goes into making those art bars engravers, mold, dies, and supplies, dealers .
Kirk Silver .925 Sterling rare set 12 piece 2 .3 ounce for each piece   .925 is 92.5% pure silver.
1964 and Before US  silver coinage was 90% silver.
1965-1969 Kennedy Halves 40% silver the only Kennedy half that was .90%  for circulation was the 1964.
There is 720 ounces of silver in a $1000.00 bag high grade
There is 710-720 for circulated silver why the difference wear, so uncirculated common coins  have a higher price (illegal to melt US coins) 
Silver dollars have more of a premium in bags, the more you have the more dealers pay, as you want to turn in $1000.00 bags to smelter as they pay more time is money.





Clad coinage has been around since 1965 also called sandwich coins when you look at edge you can see the copper, as is cheaper for the mint to make clad coinage and still looks same with silver coating.

Silver-clad 100 mils.( if silver was $10 a ounce we would not have silver clad) the higher silver goes the more clad we sell, and looking at them side by side hard to tell silver - clad does say 100 mils pure silver We will  have images  on this page to show differences.
Art bars, Medallions, Rounds.
This is how these are made  base metal ie copper, nickel with 100 mils applied  over base metal  then art bar, ingot or round is struck. these look real nice  , they are pure .999 silver over a base metal , bottom line these are nice to look at, but you will not be able to melt these down for silver, 100 mils is a lot nicer than silver-plate as silver-plate has only 3 -6 mils applies after item is finished and that silver can peel

Silver /plate this is were you have a item ie a 8 piece serving set and is silver -plated this is made... then silver -plate applied after plate , coin, medallion , ingot is made. as earier silver was .925 or 700 fine  this was the cheapest way to make this set. still looked nice , but you could not melt down for silver.




 Silver can be used for a lot of different applications 
Photographic Industry
 Wiring
 Healing
Precious metal
Coins, Bullion, Art Bars



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