Dating bars

[MadJackMcMad]

Hi all, bit of a long shot but does anyone know of a utility to be able to date a silver Metalor bar from the serial number? I have a 1 Kilo bar that looks a bit beaten up and was wondering when it was first cast. TIA

[SILVERFINGER]

I would love to date a bar, I wouldn't mind if she was a big 5kg bird either.

I guess you don't have the COA with it as I would of thought that would of had the date on it, one thing you could do is ask any friendly members on here who have the same weight bar and the cert with date on it,  if they would mind sharing the first couple of numbers from their bar eg  567,987, they show 567,###  and the date that bar was made, it might help you narrow down when it was made to before or after certain dates.

[MadJackMcMad]

The serial number of my bar begins with the letter 'K' . This is probably the batch marker which may give a rough date.

Good idea 👍

[SILVERFINGER]

3 minutes ago, MadJackMcMad said:

The serial number of my bar begins with the letter 'K' . This is probably the batch marker which may give a rough date.

Good idea 👍

I own a lot of antique guns and some you had to date from the serial numbers and letter prefix's and thats one way we do it sometimes if we have a dead cert when one persons gun was made we can all add our serials to a database and include and slight manufacturing differences, thats something that might help you also, style of the font, if that changed on the bars, where information is located on the bars, as sometimes this changed around over time.

[MadJackMcMad]

Maybe an image will help.

[SILVERFINGER]

Yeah that should help anyone on here who owns one, give them time to see this and reply its a huge forum with lots of posts to get through lol.

[MadJackMcMad]

Thanks for your input 👍

[kimchi]

The only successful dates I've had were from bars and clubs...I guess movies, zoos, aquariums and the like were just not my style

Anyway, seeing as I found this thread by accident (🤣) you may be in luck (to an extent, depending on how many they cast for each letter, as the number of digits allows for a combination up to one off a million) I have some identical bars to hand that are nicely toned, the serial numbers start at K009 and the COAs give a date of 01 October 2007.

Be interested to hear if that helps, cheers!

[MadJackMcMad]

K308, so probably a bit later, thanks.

[Darr3nG]

Maybe a silly question, but why keep the serial # secret?

Would contacting [http://www.metalor.com/en/node_59/Kontakt] help?

[SILVERFINGER]

1 minute ago, Darr3nG said:

Maybe a silly question, but why keep the serial # secret?

Would contacting [http://www.metalor.com/en/node_59/Kontakt] help?

Might aid any scammers selling a none existent one possibly, it wouldn't bother me, but some stackers it might as someone out there might recognise it as a bar they once owned then see someone on here with an enormous stack, and then realise they have their address too, maybe just me being a little paranoid/ over cautious.