Consolidated Mines & Metals

Anything made by Consolidated Mines & Metals is ultra high premium. These are pieces sought out by the most astute collectors. They came in 1, 5, 10, 25, Kilo, 50, and 100 oz. The company started in 1975 and was based out of San Francisco. The hallmark is one of the cooler hallmarks you will come across. Incredible detail and craftsmanship in the production of these ingots.

One of my prized pieces on left is a beautiful piece that looks like it was just made. Well preserved and the nicest 5 oz piece I’ve personally come across. Even weight 5 with serial on reverse. The odd weight to the right was a recent acquisition with no serial. The non-serial variety are less common. The 5 oz has estimated mintage of 1,500, but I’d be surprised if even 200 still exist.


Notice the one on left is finely polished during production and one on right has more of a poured look on reverse. Very notable differences.

Another non serial example comes from regular contributor to this blog, Brian R. It was acquired from the same collector as my non serial above, so they share similar history.

Really nice stamp and patina on this piece.
Nice pour character on reverse bottom of the bar.

The 1 oz pressed Consolidated Mines and Metals are very scarce, even with the estimated 1,000 made, there are very few survivors. I’m proud to own a set of 5 sequential plus a 6th piece that’s not part of the set. See pics below. They came with assay paper, which I have for all of them.

These are such cool pieces. I’d like to find more.
Close up of the obverse.
Closeup of the reverse.

Happy to share a few amazing pieces from the collection of fellow collector and regular contributor to this site, Prashant K. Thanks again for the share of these great pieces below. First up is a very nice 10 oz example.

Obverse of the 10 oz class CM&M ingot.
Reverse with serial stamp at bottom of ingot.

Next is another example from Prashant’s collection, a non serial 5 oz class.

5.30 oz odd weight.
Nice clean reverse. Nice pour character at top of ingot.

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3 thoughts on “Consolidated Mines & Metals”

  1. Awesome collection and great info on your site! It’s really cool to have this interesting history out there, I happened to come here after seeing a 1 oz Consolidated silver bar on an eBay auction and wondering what their timeframe was for casting ingots. I’ve been collecting coins, paper, and silver since my childhood – my dad was into it as well as roll hunting and coin hunting with his White and Garrett detectors, great memories there and he had some nice finds in the 70s and 80s since Cincinnati is an old town and big catholic city with lots of church festivals and various grounds with spilt coins. I appreciate the collectors who preserved these relics in the face of temptation from the Hunt brothers’ exploits through the 70s and the last silver run roughly 10 years ago. Thanks for sharing and providing the information and best of luck to you with the next great run which I think is coming very soon!

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      1. I was figuring 70s or 80s by the look of the certificate and the way the serial was typed. I appreciate the response and thanks for that tidbit, take care!

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