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Some amazing additions to my world gold collection arrived today, thanks to @DuncanWylieWilson the 8 Escudos and 16 Pesos are huge !!

Some amazing additions to my world gold collection arrived today, thanks to @DuncanWylieWilson the 8 Escudos and 16 Pesos are huge !!

Some amazing additions to my world gold collection arrived today, thanks to @DuncanWylieWilson the 8 Escudos and 16 Pesos are huge !!

Some amazing additions to my world gold collection arrived today, thanks to @DuncanWylieWilson the 8 Escudos and 16 Pesos are huge !!

Amazing coins! All are gorgeous but that Brazil 6400 Réis 1795-R is the winner in this lot in my eyes. Stunning piece and a most intricate and peculiar bust of Maria I! 😅
Thank you! ⭐️

Some amazing additions to my world gold collection arrived today, thanks to @DuncanWylieWilson the 8 Escudos and 16 Pesos are huge !!

Some amazing additions to my world gold collection arrived today, thanks to @DuncanWylieWilson the 8 Escudos and 16 Pesos are huge !!

Some amazing additions to my world gold collection arrived today, thanks to @DuncanWylieWilson the 8 Escudos and 16 Pesos are huge !!

Today I received a number of fantastic world gold pieces from @Leonmarsh
It would be hard to pick a favorite out of this batch but I'm going to do it anyways and give a special shout out to the Tunisian 100 Franc, for more reasons than one. Not only is it a beautiful design and in flawless condition, but its face value and metal content can't help but get you thinking.
Unlike a true LMU 100F minted in the decades previous (even into the late 20's in Italy), which were 35mm and contained nearly a full ounce of gold (0.9335ozt), this 100F measures 21mm, weighs 6.55g, and contains 0.1895 ozt of gold. Of course, fellow LMU nerds will immediately recognize this as essentially a 20F, though its not dead on.

So when is 100F not 100F? You might say its when it goes from nearly an ounce of gold to a fifth of an ounce. In Europe, it happened during and after the first world war. Ironically, because countries tried hard to maintain a fixed point of reference using gold, and the gold (or silver) was literally in the coin, you can see very clearly the points along the way where these devaluations/debasements happened. Moving into the post WWII era, Bretton Woods, and into modern times, those points become difficult to see clearly, with little or no fixed points of reference.
Its interesting to think about today in terms of the inflation we see all around us, the $1M price tags on houses, people feeling priced
out of absolutely everything. Is it even really possible to know when $100 is not $100 anymore? Or £ or €? At least in France (or Tunisia, lol) in 1935, if you held a 100F coin in your hand that used to mean an ounce but now meant a fifth-ounce, you knew exactly where you stood in the world, economically. You probably didn't like it, but you knew!
Sorry for the rant folks. Not only did I receive these beautiful coins this week, but I also filled some diesel trucks at work with fuel at historically high prices. Puts me in a philosophical frame of mind and reminds me why I like precious metals! 

Received today the Finest graded top pop with both PCGS and NGC
MS64 1803 half guinea simply sublime, 

Just a few more additions to the world gold collection 😍😍

Today I received a few nice pieces of world gold, starting with this fantastic 1916 Peru Una Libra courtesy of @Leonmarsh.
This is the first of a handful of coins on their way across the ocean from Leon. I had to judge from photos to decide on this piece and I must say, his photos dont do this coin justice! In person it looks as if it could've been minted in 2016. Clean luster, only very light marking from being stacked in tubes or in bags over the decades. Wouldnt be surprised if it had spent considerable time sitting in a vault or collection undisturbed. Would easily grade on the MS spectrum, IMHO.
Mintage of approx. 500,000, same dimensions and gold content as a Sovereign.
Second piece is one of my favorite old school bullion coins, the Mexican 50 peso. Im not sure how common or popular these are in the UK or Europe. Even in North America they get almost no love. The modern Mexican Libertads are well known for their low mintages and high premiums, but these older pieces are all but forgotten.
37mm in diameter with a whopping 1.2057 ozt, these coins are absolute bricks! You know you're holding gold when you hold one.
They were minted mostly during the 1920s and early 30s, and then again towards the end of WWII. Afterwards, they minted numerous restrikes using the 1947 date mold.

Stunning Queen vic Sov 
1865 low mintage year London only 
Thanks @AdamDutton little belter 

Beautiful 1801 half guinea ngc ms61
Stunner

Made up for you well done @ArgentSmith only had to wait six weeks nice business model for bleyer sitting on everyone's money for 6 weeks gives them some nice liquidity 

Recieved today 
Stunning lustrous Christian X Danish 10 kroner 

🇬🇧🐐🇿🇼 Rhodesia 10 Shillings 1966 - Elizabeth II
One of the few remaining examples from Robert Mugabe’s melting of them into golden bath fixtures and a most appreciated gift from my dad! 💫

Just a few more additions to the world gold collection 😍😍

Just a few more additions to the world gold collection 😍😍

Just a few more additions to the world gold collection 😍😍

Just a few more additions to the world gold collection 😍😍

Just a few more additions to the world gold collection 😍😍

Just a few more additions to the world gold collection 😍😍

Just a few more additions to the world gold collection 😍😍

Just a few more additions to the world gold collection 😍😍