Precious metal ingot

A minted bar of a precious metal, said minted bar being formed as a single piece and being partitionable into individual miniature bars by straight grooves extending at least partially across an upper surface of the minted bar, the grooves forming separation lines at which the individual miniature bars can be manually separated from each other, each individual miniature bar comprising information representative of a fine weight, the precious metal and a fineness, wherein at least one of the grooves is formed as a short groove, and terminates at another groove.

Receptacle suitable for planar reception of a minted bar of a precious metal, said minted bar being formed as a single piece and being partitionable into individual miniature bars by straight grooves extending at least partially across an upper surface of the minted bar, the grooves forming separation lines at which the individual miniature bars can be manually separated from each other, each individual miniature bar comprising information representative of a fine weight, the precious metal and a fineness, wherein at least one of the grooves is formed as a short groove, and terminates at another groove, the receptacle comprising trays, wherein one of the trays includes a number of recesses that correspond to a number of the individual miniature bars of the minted bar, wherein the recesses are adapted to a base area of the individual miniature bars and are separated from each other by partition walls, wherein a form and arrangement of the partition walls corresponds to a form and arrangement of the grooves in the minted bar.