Gold bars are an ideal and incredibly popular investment choice. Precious metals enthusiasts often turn to gold bars as a store of wealth when stock markets get shaky. Shopping for gold bars online showcases the true diversity of the market as gold bars come in various forms and weights from mints around the world. Provident Metals now offers 1/2 oz Gold Bars from Argor-Heraeus for you to purchase online.

Highlights:

• Arrives with a protective blister pack and features an assay card!
• Issued within the Classic series at Argor-Heraeus!
• Contains 1/2 Troy oz of .9999 pure gold.
• The obverse features the mint logo and other inscriptions.
• On the reverse is a blank field.
• Individual serial numbers.

When you purchase a 1/2 oz Gold Bar in this product listing, you receive a minted ingot from Argor-Heraeus in the mints signature sealed blister pack. The blister pack offers a protective capsule space for the 1/2 oz gold bar and features a black assay card with important verification information on the bar. On one side of the card, you will find the assayers signature with the weight, purity, and metal content of the bar. The other side of the card features the unique serial number assigned to each individual bar. Whether you buy one or several, each bar is individually packaged in one of these cards.

Obverse

The obverse face of the 1/2 oz Gold Bar includes the only markings you will find on this product from Argor-Heraeus. Each bar has inscriptions arranged vertically down the face of the bar with the mint logo at the top. This logo includes an inner circle with AH initials and a ring around it that reads Argor Heraeus. Below that is the word Switzerland, the home nation of the mint. Other inscriptions on this side include 1/2 ounce, Fine Gold, 999,9. The assayers mark is stamped near the bottom along with an individual serial number.

Reverse

On the reverse of these particular 1/2 oz Gold Bars there are no design elements or inscriptions. This field is left blank on purpose. You will notice that all of the bars available through this listing come with a six-digit serial number and that each bar is packaged with the obverse face of the bar lining up to the obverse side of the assay card so the two separate markings of the serial number are aligned for easy validation.

History

Argor-Heraeus was founded in Chiasso, Switzerland, in 1951 as the Argor SA refinery and mint. As of 1986, it has been known as Argor-Heraeus following a joint venture between then 100% owner UBS and the German Heraeus group.

Ordering

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