No doubt about it. Osmium is a rising star in the bullion world. Already a star among element collectors, this bluish precious metal is poised to become much more familiar in the years to come. Why, what’s so special about it? For one, it’s far rarer than gold or platinum. It, in fact, is a candidate for the rarest of all non-radioactive elements in the earth’s crust at a distribution of just one part per billion. Although a precious metal, it is not normally found where one digs up silver or gold. It is instead recovered from platinum ores as minute traces. Being so rare might explain why it has been ignored by industrial engineers but should have fueled the jewelry and bullion counterparts. And yet it didn’t because when turned into a powder - its default as refined - it is vulnerable to quite poisonous oxides. So just melt it into a lump and turn it into rings and pendants! Not so fast. Osmium is nearly unmeltable, requiring special lab furnaces that can do the job only on a small scale. As a final nail in the coffin, these solid pieces of osmium absolutely refuse to budge under a hammer or any other machining process shattering instead like a cheap piece of glass.

With those headwinds it’s hardly surprising that practically no one has heard of osmium despite its tremendous potential. Over the years Luciteria’s team has been making steady progress in cracking osmium’s secrets and is now offering on a limited basis these long awaited Troy ounce bars using advanced powder metallurgy methods. Each bar is serialized and comes encapsulated in a heat sealed blister card. Fewer than 100lbs of this metal is estimated to come to market every year. Ownership of a single ounce bar therefore is a remarkable share of this extremely limited resource!

Comes standard sealed in a blister card with a mirror finish and unique serial number on the reverse.