1oz SilverTowne Happy Halloween Headless Horseman Silver Bar (New) New

1oz SilverTowne Happy Halloween Headless Horseman Silver Bar (New)

1oz SilverTowne Headless Horseman Silver Bars are available to you for purchase online from GP Bullion. The Headless Horseman is one of the oldest characters in human folklore associated with Halloween. However, the association of the Headless Horseman with modern celebrations of Halloween is much more modern than its traditional root tales in folklore. In fact, it was American author Washington Irving who is responsible for connecting the Headless Horseman to the Halloween season with hits 1820 short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”

Bar Highlights:

• Bar arrives in a protective plastic sleeve, a sheet of 20 bars, or a box of 500 bars!
• Captures the lighter side of the tale of the Headless Horseman!
• Special Halloween-themed release!
• Contains 1 Troy oz of .999 pure silver.
• The obverse depicts the Headless Horseman with a seasonal greeting.
• On the reverse is a blank field with a decorative border.

Tales of the Headless Horseman are said to date back to the Middles Ages in various cultures around the world, but the most prominent versions of the story in Western society come from England, Ireland, Scotland, and the United States. The oldest written tales of the Headless Horseman date to the 14^th century in England when a poem written about Gawain and the Green Knight features a headless figure on horseback, a Green Knight who was beheaded by Gawain.