Afternoon everyone....
It’s a miserable day, we just found out that my uncle my mom’s brother was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Obviously she’s not taking it well, he is the only one left aside from her in the family. I’m trying to do my best with her and keep her as calm as possible.
While comforting her, I write this post with a beautiful and heavy chunk of silver.
This is a ten ounce bar produced by the Golden State Mint. It is appropriately named the Samurai bar. The detail is fantastic and it’s got a cameo look to it as well.
Here is the description from the Golden State Mint website:
The Samurai is one of the most important symbols not only from Japan, but from universal history. A Samurai represents that a true warrior must defend ideas like loyalty, courage, veracity, compassion, and honor. This is called Bushido, the 8 codes of honor and ideals that a Samurai follows. The meaning of the word Samurai is “ones who serve”. A bar of silver is a respectable canvas to mint the art of a Samurai. At Golden State Mint, we strive to be honorable as well in the quality of our silver bars and all of our products. This bar of silver features a standing Samurai in a defensive position wearing a full armor including the well-known Samurai mask used for protecting the face and to strike terror into enemies. This armor is called Karuta (karuta-gane) from the Portuguese word for “card” because of the rectangle card-shaped pieces of the armor. Samurai for a time used gold and silver bars as currency, a bar of silver was called Shu-Gin.
Take a look for yourself....
