1 oz Marquee Peacock Silver Bar

The 1 oz Marquee Peacock Silver Bar

The Marquee Peacock is a decorative 1 oz minted bar from Scottsdale Mint, the Arizona private mint founded in 2008 and best known for its Stacker bar series. It is part of the mint's Marquee line of premium bars, named for the eye-catching, theatre-marquee style display of the design, and it pairs an ornate peacock on the reverse with Scottsdale's crowned lion logo on the obverse.

The purity is the quiet differentiator. At .9999 fine silver, the Peacock is a four-nines bar in a market where most American private mints, including SilverTowne, Golden State Mint, and Sunshine, strike silver at .999. The extra nine adds marginal cost but signals the bar's premium positioning, and it matches the purity standard of the PAMP Fortuna. It also matters for tax in jurisdictions with fineness thresholds, comfortably clearing every one of them.

Each bar ships in a capsule mounted on Scottsdale-branded chipboard, presentation-grade packaging that dealer reviews note makes it a natural gift purchase. Production is open with no mintage cap, which keeps premiums moderate: above generic 1 oz silver bars but below limited-edition collectible pieces. An identical design exists as a .9999 gold bar, one of the few bullion products issued in matching silver and gold versions, which lets buyers pair the metals.

Marquee Peacock Silver Bar Specifications

Weight, purity, and metal content ("1 TROY OUNCE 9999 FINE SILVER") are engraved on the bar alongside the lion hallmark. There is no serialisation, assay card, or advanced anti-counterfeiting feature on the standard bullion version; authentication rests on the engraved specifications, the branding, and the sealed capsule. The matching 1 oz Marquee Peacock gold bar carries the identical design but is physically smaller (40.4 x 23.2 x 1.75 mm), since one ounce of gold occupies far less volume than one ounce of silver.

Marquee Peacock Tax Treatment by Country

As a private-mint bar with no legal tender status, the Peacock follows standard silver bullion rules, with its .9999 fineness clearing every purity threshold.

• USA: The primary market. No federal sales tax; most states exempt bullion, though several only above purchase thresholds a single 1 oz silver bar will not meet. Long-term gains are taxed at the collectibles rate of up to 28%. Unlike most .999+ silver, this bar is generally not IRA-eligible: US IRA rules require bars from a sovereign mint or an approved refiner/assayer, and Scottsdale Mint bars typically do not qualify.
• UK: 20% VAT on purchase and no CGT exemption, the standard double disadvantage for silver bars in the UK.
• Canada: GST/HST exempt; the .9999 purity qualifies under the federal exemption for silver refined to 99.9% or higher. Capital gains taxed at the 50% inclusion rate.
• Australia: GST-free as investment-grade silver, since the .9999 purity exceeds the 99.9% silver threshold. CGT applies with a 50% discount after a 12-month hold.
• New Zealand: GST-exempt above the 99.9% silver threshold; no formal capital gains tax.
• EU: Full local VAT on new silver bars, 17% to 27% by member state.
• Singapore and Hong Kong: No GST on qualifying investment silver in Singapore, no sales tax in Hong Kong, no capital gains tax in either.

Marquee Peacock vs PAMP, Sunshine, and Generic 1 oz Bars

The Peacock's most direct rival is the PAMP Suisse Fortuna, the original art bar. Both are .9999 fine minted bars with strong designs, but the PAMP adds assay card authentication and LBMA-accredited provenance, which translates into stronger resale recognition globally. The Peacock counters on presentation (capsule and chipboard display) and typically on price, since open production keeps its premium moderate.

Against Sunshine Minting bars, the trade is purity and aesthetics versus security: Sunshine strikes at .999 but embeds its MintMark SI decoder-verified anti-counterfeiting mark, while the Peacock offers four-nines purity and a more decorative design with no security technology. Generic 1 oz bars undercut all of these on price but recover no brand premium at resale.

The honest structural comparison is against weight, not brand. One-ounce bars are the most expensive way to buy silver bar weight; premiums drop sharply at the 10 oz size and keep falling through kilo bars. A buyer optimising purely for ounces per dollar should buy bigger bars. The Marquee Peacock instead competes where 1 oz bars actually win: gifting, small incremental purchases, fine-grained divisibility at resale, and design appeal. Within that niche, its combination of four-nines purity, matching gold companion bar, and presentation packaging is a distinctive package that the plainer bars at this weight do not offer.