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{{/presale}}Asahi Refining is making a splash in the precious metals industry, but it took time for the mint to get its facilities up and running after its purchase of Johnson Matthey operations. Silver bars are in high demand right now amid low prices and intense strains on the supply chain. Today, the 1 Kilo Asahi Silver Bar from the Salt Lake City facility is available for purchase from JM Bullion.
Bar Highlights:
Asahi Refining has a long history of producing precious metal products, but its brand is not well known outside of Asia. The company was formed in the 1950s in Tokyo, but has not expanded outside of that region. Asahi operations prior to its purchase of Johnson Matthey consisted largely of recycling precious metals and refining those products into new bars.
Each of the Asahi Refining bars available in this product listing from JM Bullion was produced at the Salt Lake City refinery in the United States. Asahi took control of two refining locations, one in Salt Lake and a second in Brampton, Ontario with its purchase of Johnson Matthey.
These bars are part of the first 1,000 bars produced in late 2015 at the Asahi facility in Salt Lake. Asahi struggled to get off the ground with its bar production in 2015 because the demand for silver made it difficult to secure enough of the precious metal to ramp up to full production capacity.
On the obverse side of these bars you’ll find the only engravings used by Asahi. The refinery’s logo is featured at the top of the bar, with markings including the weight, purity, and metal content along the bottom of the design field.
Asahi Refining took control of a total of three facilities from Johnson Matthey, which had been in the precious metals industry since the 1850s. It is now looking to establish itself as one of the major players in the bullion industry.
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See also Section 13 of our Terms and Conditions.
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Depending on your method of payment, it is possible to have your order shipped to an address other than your billing address. If you pay with paper check, bank wire, ACH, Ethereum, Ripple, or bitcoin, you may have your order shipped wherever you please, with two exceptionsUPS locations and mail forwarding locations. If you pay with a credit/debit card, it depends on your order history. For credit cards, put the order through with your billing address as the shipping address, and then call us to see if we can change it to an alternate. If you pay via PayPal, your order must ship to a PayPal Verified address.
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Unfortunately, due to the way insurance is applied to an order, everything must ship at the same time (i.e., in-stock items must await shipment until all presale items have arrived). Your order will ship in its entirety within 24-72 hours of our receiving the presale item. An email notification will be sent when your order ships.
We do not ship to US territories. Due to special requirements set by the postal systems, we are unable to ship outside of U.S. states.
All UPS & FedEx shipments ship with a No Will Call restriction, meaning the package cannot be picked up from a UPS or FedEx location or just left at the delivery address. This is a precaution to prevent orders from being fraudulently intercepted.
UPS or FedEx will make three delivery attempts. If nobody is available at the delivery address to sign and accept delivery, the package will be returned to us.
All orders will ship from our warehouse in Las Vegas, Nevada. We mask our return address on all packages as to not give away the contents of the package.
No, we do not. The costs in shipping to these places is extremely prohibitive, so we utilize USPS on all shipments.
Yes! When products are shipped via the United States Postal Service, we can ship to a P.O. Box. Please note that insurance on shipments to P.O. Boxes ends as soon as the package shows delivered.
We can ship to such stores including UPS Stores, various mail and packing stores, freight forwarders, etc. However, these are private businesses not owned by UPS, USPS, etc. Therefore, our shipping insurance does not cover missing packages or items sent to these locations if the tracking shows delivered.
Orders are shipped in inconspicuous packaging via either USPS, UPS or FedEx.* All shipments are fully insured. Our shipping policy, which is based on order size, can be viewed here.
*UPS 3-Day Air excludes Alaska, Hawaii, PO Boxes, UPS Store, and APO addresses. No Will Call pickups permitted.Saturday service not included.