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Here's a Bar You Don't See Everyday

Postby Morsecode » Sat Nov 23, 2013 12:13 am

Not my cup of tea, but interesting

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Re: Here's a Bar You Don't See Everyday

Postby Rosco » Sat Nov 23, 2013 12:48 am

Free ShippingGosh an only $5,000 8-)
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Re: Here's a Bar You Don't See Everyday

Postby dakota1955 » Sat Nov 23, 2013 7:28 am

If you want the five you can go for the one ounce that listed in the store.
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Re: Here's a Bar You Don't See Everyday

Postby dirty fingers » Sat Nov 23, 2013 10:32 am

I thought rhodium was available as a sponge, not as some perty bar. I would be a little leery of this, ESPECIALLY looking at the word 'SAMPLE' on the packaging. Who knows, possibly there is some process to press into bars now, but there was not before. Would suck to spend 6500 on some chinese made rhodium plated nickle bar, but I guess you 'would' save with that free shipping!
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Re: Here's a Bar You Don't See Everyday

Postby rsk1963 » Sat Nov 23, 2013 11:13 am

it's traditionally a sponge because it's a pain in the butt to make into a bar (it is too brittle) baird is one of the few companies that actually produce such bars.
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Re: Here's a Bar You Don't See Everyday

Postby SteelCityCopper » Sat Nov 23, 2013 6:06 pm

rsk1963 wrote:it's traditionally a sponge because it's a pain in the butt to make into a bar (it is too brittle) baird is one of the few companies that actually produce such bars.


I think I also remember seeing rounds from Monarch Precious Metals and Sunshine Minting but that was years ago.
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Re: Here's a Bar You Don't See Everyday

Postby chris6084 » Sat Nov 23, 2013 9:39 pm

A quick search finds websites selling it for almost $1000 less
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Re: Here's a Bar You Don't See Everyday

Postby slickeast » Sun Nov 24, 2013 7:10 am

I saw several 1oz bars at the F.U.N. show and at the Baltimore show.
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Re: Here's a Bar You Don't See Everyday

Postby carssman » Fri May 09, 2014 11:23 am

I purchased one of those 5oz Baird Rhodium bars.. I was able to use a member over at BS to send it to from Prov and have him ship to me with other items I won in the BS KSA..

Worked out well as you cannot get these 5 oz sizes in Canada and RH is taxed up here. I was able to save approx. 750 bucks between shipping and GST (tax)

Its sweet, its rather hefty in size and is a good addition to my RH stack, up to 11 oz of RH now :D
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Re: Here's a Bar You Don't See Everyday

Postby agnaustic » Thu May 29, 2014 9:21 am

My LCS has two or three of these. I think the price he wanted for one was a few hundred over spot value. It's an interesting bar, nonetheless! If I had the money to throw around, I'd buy it.
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Re: Here's a Bar You Don't See Everyday

Postby Cu Penny Hoarder » Thu May 29, 2014 10:47 am

Is there a way to prove it's not counterfeit ?
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Re: Here's a Bar You Don't See Everyday

Postby agnaustic » Thu May 29, 2014 12:01 pm

I'm not sure. It's still in its assay container.
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Re: Here's a Bar You Don't See Everyday

Postby flynavy812 » Fri May 30, 2014 2:10 pm

At least the shipping is free :)
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