Collecting should be fun, enjoyable, and informational. Through our journey in collecting we found it difficult to locate a lot of information and it was always a constant struggle to put pieces together to better understand the landscape surrounding rare ingots, primarily from the 19th century.
This site is dedicated to helping the casual collector and the seasoned Americana metals mavin in having a handy resource when it comes to older bars.
Although we may feature the occasional 20th century ingots, that is not our main focus. Certainly there are many ingots from the 1900’s that deserve honorable mention, particularly those made by various Assay offices of the US such as Denver, San Francisco, New York, and others. Furthermore, just as history didn’t cease at the turn of the century, so too many ingots were still being formed. However, we largely aim to focus our attention on the best of the best – the bars that are truly several notches above the rest and are extremely rare, thus highly desirable.
We are not a modern vintage repository – for that, there are other online resources that may be better suited to the task. We classify most of modern vintage from 1960’s to 1980’s.