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Ca.1960s U.S. Treasury Souvenir Assay Office Silver Samples. About As Made.

Granules of silver, made by pouring molten silver into cool water, range in size from smaller than the head of a pin to size of a green pea and are from the U.S. Assay Offices at New York and San Francisco. Housed in a small (2 1/8” x 3” x 11/16”) plastic snap-tight box with a divider to keep the respective samples from each Assay Office separate; lid labeled “U.S. TREASURY” along top edge, and “SAN FRANCISCO” and “NEW YORK CITY” along bottom edge. A wonderful souvenir from the era when one could get silver from the U.S. Treasury and the only one we can recall seeing.