That’s right. When the communists attack, and you don’t have any tradin’ silver to give me to let you into my fallout shelter, you’ll think back and rue this decision.
Check the market price in the stock market section of any newspaper in a sizable town. Know what its worth on the open market.
Realize that you are selling and will get less than market. OTOH if you are buying you may have to pay more. (Profits, handling, etc.)Deal only with coin/precious metal dealers of repute.
Yes, thank you! The bars were 10 troy ounces. Not 100. That was just the quickest pic I could find. 
I love how exact everyone on the SDMB is
Yeah, I always try to get within one order of magnitude when giving my answers.
BTW, in that recipe I gave for chocolate chip cookies a while ago, it should have read 1/2 a teaspoon of salt, not 5 teaspoons! Sorry about that.
At what weight does silver/gold cease to be an ingot and become a bar?
The weight doesn’t matter. An ingot is a mass that has been melted and cast into a shape, such as a bar or block. So a bar is an ingot.
So a man walks into an ingot with a duck on his head…
My grandfather was a magician, he used to turn into an ingot every day around three.