Imagine you’re living in a country suffering from long-term average inflation of 25% per year – and, for the last two years, inflation has tripled to 75%. What would you do with your rapidly-depreciating paper money? 

Well, the nation of Turkey is in exactly this situation. Citizens are desperate to swap their lira for intrinsically-valuable, inflation-resistant hard goods. Istanbul Gold Refinery (IGR) has been meeting this customer demand by producing bullion, even fractional silver bars for those who want to buy silver bullion in small quantities. Unlike most world mints, IGR takes the time and expense to assay and certify even their 5 gram silver bullion bars. Why? Well, assay packaging serves as a certificate of authenticity for the enclosed silver bullion. Assay packaging builds trust between buyer and seller, and makes the silver more likely to be accepted on the secondary market. 

We’ve managed to secure a small supply of IGR 5 gram silver bullion bars. You won’t find too many of these in the U.S. (they mostly sell out to IGR’s domestic market). If you want to diversify your silver stack with some small change in factional weights, you simply can’t do better than IGR’s assay-packaged silver bullion bars. 

Istanbul Gold Refinery (IGR) 5 gram silver bullion bar in assay highlights:

• At 5 grams (0.16 troy oz) of 0.999 pure silver, just about the lightest-weight and most affordable silver bullion you’ll find
• Hard to find! Incredibly popular as a hedge against inflation in IGR’s home country of Turkey
• Tamper-resistant assay packaging attests to authenticity and purity
• IGR has been a London Bullion Market Association Good Delivery-certified refiner for over a decade