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10 2016 kooks, love this coin, not just the kook and the barb wire but also the depth of the horizon, great piece of art, I'll be getting every weight I think.
10 Perth mint monkeys, a Somalian elephant and a kangaroo, all really nice.
The royal mint monkey's poor, plenty of dings and a couple of milk spots, one by the Chinese symbol and the other on the heads side.
On the Sovereign front, the Isle of man Sov which was overweight turned out to be real, picked up a nice 1872 Sovereign while I was there.
 

10 2016 kooks, love this coin, not just the kook and the barb wire but also the depth of the horizon, great piece of art, I'll be getting every weight I think.
10 Perth mint monkeys, a Somalian elephant and a kangaroo, all really nice.
The royal mint monkey's poor, plenty of dings and a couple of milk spots, one by the Chinese symbol and the other on the heads side.
On the Sovereign front, the Isle of man Sov which was overweight turned out to be real, picked up a nice 1872 Sovereign while I was there.
 

Finally managed to get chance to open today's package which really should have been delivered yesterday.  Conned my dad into waiting in at mine for the delivery rather than missing it and having to wait until Monday to get it.  Officially broke now.

10 2016 kooks, love this coin, not just the kook and the barb wire but also the depth of the horizon, great piece of art, I'll be getting every weight I think.
10 Perth mint monkeys, a Somalian elephant and a kangaroo, all really nice.
The royal mint monkey's poor, plenty of dings and a couple of milk spots, one by the Chinese symbol and the other on the heads side.
On the Sovereign front, the Isle of man Sov which was overweight turned out to be real, picked up a nice 1872 Sovereign while I was there.
 

Early xmas pressy from the missis
2016 Kookaburra
2016 Somali elephant
 
 

Today i received not a coin but the royal mint publication on the gold sovereign history for £25, its about 11.5" x 9" 112 pages and is a very good quality hardback book, i've not read it cover to cover yet, but it details history of gold coinage leading up to the coin we know.
Has some great photos of earlier coins.

2 Sovereigns, 1891 and 1893 - the 1891 is from Sydney
1875 5 venezolanos from Venezuela - 0.23oz/90%, mintage 35000/69000 depending on the source
2010 Mexican silver and gold set (200 years of independence) with two 2oz silver coins and 1/4 oz gold proof libertad. This set is the same as in the link below, but instead of having the large gold coin, it has the 1/4 oz libertad. I really don´t know if this set I got was originally released this way. At least I´m unable to find any information about it. The case is pretty cool. It has no paperwork with it, and it says 500 sets produced.
http://www.apmex.com/product/65464/2010-mexico-3-coin-prestige-proof-set-1-2057-oz-agw-4-oz-asw

Didn't expect this to be sealed.  Packaging in a bit of a state but I'll break it open and put in a capsule.  My OCD tells me that everything must be uniform.

Waited a while to get this. They had to order the kooks.
2014 year of the horse 5 oz
2x 2016 kookaburra
 

 



 

Finally got my first 4 Ducat. Quite pleased.

10 2016 kooks, love this coin, not just the kook and the barb wire but also the depth of the horizon, great piece of art, I'll be getting every weight I think.
10 Perth mint monkeys, a Somalian elephant and a kangaroo, all really nice.
The royal mint monkey's poor, plenty of dings and a couple of milk spots, one by the Chinese symbol and the other on the heads side.
On the Sovereign front, the Isle of man Sov which was overweight turned out to be real, picked up a nice 1872 Sovereign while I was there.
 

Now he mentions about an opinion on gold falling further if rates do indeed rise, however the whole reason it has fallen back from $1190 only a month ago is because they expect a rate rise in December, so if the rates actually do rise i'd expect gold to also rise "sell on the rumor and buy on the fact" or stabilize  if rates do not rise then it would probably rally back towards $1190.
 
Rates rising isn't going to boost the economy, rate rises are meant for when an economy is booming and to control inflation, well everything is tanking look at Rolls Royce today it nearly tanked 25% at one point and ended the day down 20%, this is a big name industrial blue chip heavyweight on its 4th consecutive profit warning.
Mining companies like glencore only came back from lows on the back of copper moving back up and sentiment presuming no rate rises , that will go south fast if metal prices continue to fall and rate rises happen given their debt pile.
Companies like Lonmin who are basically already broke will be sure to go into administration, that's the state of the economy its so bad that big blue chip companies will be destroyed by a 0.25% rise.
You would normally cut rates in this environment. 

I bought a half sov from hgm a while back and when it came through it was a isle of man half sov and that was over 4 grams

A 2014 1/4 oz gold Britannia from BBP and a 22.2 gram silver proof French lunar monkey from France.
The Britannia was from the best value section where you could either get a 22ct or 24ct. Took a gamble and got my 24ct. This saved over £20 compared to requesting a 2014 coin, result.

Should be exactly the same as a British sovereign. Do you have a proof sovereign to compare it with?
That 1900 one is in pretty good nick and should weigh in at a tad less than 7.98
I've never seen one above 8g that has been weighed on accurate scales.

1oz S2 proof rabbit, all up to date with these now.

1/20 1992 Mint Sealed Gold Libertad because it has a different design to current years.
1/10 1988 Gold Nugget for the date run.  Just missing the 1989 now.
Somaliland Year of the Sheep.

This is the second Sydney mint Aussie type sovereign I have, so I guess I'm collecting them now!
This one is quite nice except for the rather ugly scratch on Vickies cheek, shame but the price was right.
 

Little gold for myself and some silver as gifts for the kids. Ordered from Gold Silber Munzen Shop. Have dealt with them few times and it has been smooth.
I really like the condition of the 2.5 dollar gold coin. If it is cleaned or not, can´t really tell.

Another 3 carded Roos
 

20% off EBay purchase:

S1  10z Dog & Pig.
 
 
 


 

Finally managed to get the latest 2 Star Trek coins.  I didn't want the captains so had to wait until there were enough items to order to reduce the postage rate/item since the places with cheap postage only wanted to sell them as a pair.  Picked up the 2016 1/10 Roo, 1/10 Monkey and Silver Roo to go with them as well as some spare genuine Perth Mint capsules.

Picked up a 2015 5oz Libertad yesterday. Was also after the 2oz but had already gone.