Damn, I wish I could remember... I was buying a set of large banded yesterday for my trolololol and ended up paying about 105pp for the whole set because I felt bad making the guy run from EC to Neriak to The Feerrott, after I ended up buying the full set off of his back.
But somewhere out there I saw a vendor who had a full set of bronze for sale. It was like 40-60pp per piece, though. It may very well have been the barbarian fishing village in WK, where I was buying sectional molds etc. Someone may have been levelling up blacksmithing and sold tons of bronze to them after the last server reset.
As far as weapon selection, here's
my favorite link on the subject of budget twinking.