Eastern Precious Metals

EPM was a mystery to me for quite some time, but as the hobby has grown, more and more collectors have done due diligence in finding provenance on these bars. I formerly referred to EPM bars as Empire Precious Metals, which is inaccurate. Thanks to silveringotinfo.com, this mystery has been cleared up. They posted an old advertisement confirming this is in fact Eastern Precious Metals and it was started in 1980 out of Lancaster, PA. It was affiliated with a business called Steinmetz Coins and Currency. I have a type 1 and type 2 example. There as an extruded type 3 ten oz bar that I sold a few years back.

I really like the poured example below, which I believe predates the top bar and will refer to this one as type 1 and the top example as type 2.
Interesting to see some similarities on the reverse when the obverse could’t be more different. The type two appears to be machine finished versus the classic pour and bread loaf style of the type 1.

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