GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS · MANUFACTURED IN DUBAI

The largest silver bar ever made

In November 2025 the Dubai Precious Metals Conference unveiled a 1,971 kg silver bar built to commemorate the founding of the UAE. Guinness World Records recognised it as the largest silver bar in the world. We made the metal.

The record
Weight1,971 kg
Purity999.9 fine silver
RecognitionGuinness World Records
Commemorates1971, the founding year of the UAE
Manufactured bySAM Refinery, Dubai
UnveiledDubai Precious Metals Conference, November 2025

What the record actually says about the floor

A bar of that size is not a display piece that was made somewhere else and finished in Dubai. Producing 1,971 kg of 999.9 fine silver, and striking it so the mark reads correctly across that surface, is a statement about capacity, melt, assay and casting at a scale most operations never attempt.

The same equipment and the same team that made the record bar make the 1 gram to 1 kilogram range we sell every day. The record is not a separate capability that exists somewhere else on the floor. It is the same floor, asked for more.

A one kilo cast silver bar of 999 fineness produced at the SAM refinery
A 1 kg cast silver bar, 999 fine, from the same floor that produced the record bar. This is a standard production bar, not the record piece.
7 SEPTEMBER 2026

And then it was tokenised

On 7 September 2026 the bar became the first tokenised commodity asset launched under the DMCC-VARA tokenisation framework. Fractional digital interests in it went on sale through a regulated platform, with the physical bar held in institutional custody and its ownership registered on a DMCC register.

We want to be precise about our part in that, because the distinction matters to anyone reading it.

What we did

We manufactured the bar. The metal, the assay, the casting and the mark are ours, made at our refinery in Dubai.

That is the whole of our role in the tokenisation. We supplied the physical asset.

Everything regulated in that structure sat with parties licensed to do it, and it is worth being clear about who did what:

Issuance and trading
A VARA-licensed virtual asset platform
Issued the fractional interests and operates the regulated secondary market. Licensed by the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, permitted to serve retail, qualified and institutional investors.
Custody
A global secure logistics and vaulting provider
Holds the physical bar and provides the custody chain behind the digital interest.
Registration
DMCC Tradeflow
Registers possession and ownership of the commodity, so the metal behind the token sits on a verifiable register rather than a promise.
Framework and regulation
DMCC and VARA
DMCC built the tokenisation framework for commodities. VARA is the regulator. Neither is us, and we do not issue tokens or take custody.

Why we are putting this on our own website

Because a world record held by a bar we manufactured, tokenised under a regulatory framework, custodied by an institution and registered on a trade body register, is not something a buyer should have to take on trust. It is checkable, and we would rather show it than describe our capability in adjectives.

We are a refinery. We do not issue tokens, we do not hold client assets, and we do not offer digital assets for sale. What the record demonstrates is capacity, precision and compliance at scale. If that matters to what you are buying, it is worth an email and a price on your own metal.

1,971 kg
Cast and marked in Dubai
The largest silver bar recognised by Guinness World Records, made from 999.9 fine metal at our own refinery.
999.9
Assay standard
The same assay standard every bar leaves our floor with, at every weight from one gram up.
1 g to 1 kg
The range we sell
Minted and cast bars across the full weight range, serialised, sealed and certificated.

Want the range behind it

Our trade catalogue covers the full minted and cast range with weights, dimensions and finishing. Ask for it and we will send it over, along with today's price on your own weight.

SAM Refinery
SAM Refinery · Dubai, UAE
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SAM Refinery manufactured the physical silver bar described on this page. SAM Refinery does not issue virtual assets, does not provide custody, and does not offer digital assets for sale. Third-party names are the property of their respective owners and are referenced here to identify their roles.
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