GoldenDuck

Just got these 2 shiney things through my letter box. Thank you to all those who make it happen.

Just got these 2 shiney things through my letter box. Thank you to all those who make it happen.

Just got these 2 shiney things through my letter box. Thank you to all those who make it happen.

Just a wee delivery from Edinburgh!

Here is some interesting facts about these bars, by the numbers....
The Silver Forum Bars in numbers
Initial mintage: 171
Estimated mintage: 200 (or 250 depending on demand)
Project duration: 2 weeks planning, 7 weeks production
Weight: 1 ozt (min)
Purity: 99.9% Fine Silver
Average weight: 32.5 grams
Lightest bar: 31.12 grams
Heaviest bar: 34.5 grams
x220 bars poured
x5 graphite melting crucibles totalling 85 grams of burnt off graphite
x40 rejected (because of weight or quality)
x180 bars sent for hallmarking
x1 undergone destructive testing
x8 “mint error” bars (miss stamped by me) – bound for the melting pot!
15 individual stamps per bar
Total individual stamps: 2,565
Number of people purchased bars: 76 (so far!)
x7 Gold Premium Members
x40 Premium Members
x29 Standard Members
x7 Countries over 3 continents!
x5 US States & x30 UK Counties
~60,000 cm square of brown wrapping paper
~40 meters of Brown Packaging tape
60,000 cm Square of Bubble wrap
Average distance each bar has travelled by post (including hallmarking): 750 miles
Longest distance to be travelled by any bar: 10,000 miles (to Australia!)

OK!!!
It has been a pretty epic couple of days and I would just like to acknowledge "Mrs Backyard Bullion" without who you all would have to wait another week for your bars to be ready!
They are all hallmarked with an initial mintage of "171" 
This is my "hallmark" the BYB in the pill shape is unique to me at the Edinburgh assay office. No-one can ever register the same mark. The 999 is the purity of the silver, the castle is the Edinburgh assay office mark and the "S" is the 2017 year mark!

They are also all serialised, polished and ready to go!

They are also all packed up and ready to be put in the post on Monday morning so you should all have your bars by the middle of next week!
Please put them on the "Today I received" thread!!!

Big update video to follow on Sunday @12pm (GMT) so make sure to go over and subscribe to my YouTube channel and hit the "alarm bell" and you will get a notification when it goes live!
https://www.youtube.com/backyardbullion

171 bars came back all OK!
Actually they only drill tested one of them, the other 8 are all "Mint Error" bars as I messed up the stamping!
So 171 bars...6 stamps per bar...1080 stamps done today...
Fingers are sore but my back is the killer, hunched over the stamping block for 4 hours ain't good for the spine...
In fact, just going to go unzip my spine and have a well earned beer! 

So just to update everyone on the estimated delivery date:-
I am currently stamping all the bars with their serial numbers, they then all need to be cleaned up and packed up.
I hope you can all appreciate that these two things are quite a time consuming process!
Therefore rather than scramble to make the post tomorrow to ensure you all get it at the same time I am going to get all the bars ready and packed to go in the post on Monday 19th June. Hopefully that means delivery to you all by middle of the week (except for international people!)

This is what your bars looked like before I got my hands on them...
 

Thanks my friend - will put you down for those numbers!

Hi there, def interested. A nice looking bar. Would like to reserve 9 and 26 please.

Today i got from my family for my birthday later in the month.
1 x Maple.
1 x Philly.
2 x Spiders.
This brought my average way down. To £18.76p per oz.and a total of 100 oz.
 
I have finally made it after all these years of scrimping and saving,selling stuff,collecting scrap metals for money,then using the money for silver,birthday and Christmas gifts, and just buying an ounce here and there too, as cheap as i could find it with the odd exception. I have done every trick in my book to stack this one hundred ounces of silver and i am very proud of myself for sticking with it.