Definizione

• Gold Bar.  Gold fashioned into a form for transportation and storage; depending upon size, they are called fillets, wafer, ingot, bar or brick. Usually gold bars are marked with
  weight and fineness, sometimes with identity and location of refiner. The purpose of such markings are to preclude the gold from being assayed each time the gold is transferred.
  Some historical gold bars are archived, even collected by numismatists when they come on the market.

  excerpted with permission from

  An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

  For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

  COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

  Roger W. Burdette, Editor

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