Samurai

Afternoon everyone....

It’s a miserable day here in the Northeast. It’s raining and it’s gonna continue all day into tomorrow morning.

I was suppose to pick up supplies for my next job today. But...... the hell with that in this weather.

So instead 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....