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I given in to temptation and got another krugerrand  

Just tell her the face value. She's furious that I spent over £200 on those stupid horse coins

Wee brits completed. 1 year pm anniversary today.

Some Memorials courtesy of @TavexBullion and the 2023 1/10 'Roos thanks to @BleyerBullion. I was a tad worried about these as the kangaroos looked overly muscly in all the photos I'd seen but they are fine in hand👍. 

Keeping up with the Jones’s is difficult, or have I been burgled!?….
Just a bit of fun, and no wife to nag me😺

Did anyone else receive their special edition pattern sovereign today?    

Just getting the first results back...........

Look what I got today, my 1st gold sovereign from the forum. Good eh! First but not the last I bet.
Nice capsule too, I used a 1/4 oz silver brit capsule it fitted pretty well.

Emperor Penguin

 
Coat of Arms (Queensland) 2023
 
 

Just got this marketing email form the East India company.....I've just emailed them back to say I will take the one on the left 
 

That's a nice one. Such a pity that no one seems to care. But there are just too many coins that the RM issues. And this at a time when most people have other problems than collecting coins.
But this one looks much better, than the Arthur coin.

Elizabeth II Bullion Sov Date Run
1957 - 2022

Can't wait for this beauty 

Today I received - some distinguished Charles I (1625- 49) coins-  
          - Five Shillings & Sixpence- 
References as per the coin tickets.









And all my Charles I coins together: 

 
 

Totally awesome arrivals today... a coin I have desired to own for a couple of years now. A dream coin in fact. An Athenian owl tetradrachm dating to 440-404BC, over 2400 years old! Absolutely exquisite! Amazing relief. 






 
And for a geometry geek this is unbelievably cool. A first millennium 10 dirhem polyhedral weight, I believe used to check against coins. They come in many shapes... I see a new collection in my future....
 

First silver bar purchase thanks to an unmissable deal from @BullionMan89  
(I give it less than a day before I give up on faffing about with gloves and start to fondle with my bare hands instead...)

Finally got the final pieces to my Black Panther puzzle! As some of you may know I’m a Black Panther fan and I couldn’t decide whether to grade my collection or keep them raw so…I got two of each and did both! The one(s) that evaded me was the 2012 Marvel Civil War coin which is very expensive to obtain in PF70 and very difficult to find raw however my patience paid off and bought them from a guy who wanted to get rid of them as they were a present from his ex 😂😂😂
These will go away and be passed onto my kids and kept in the family.
Always got to give a shoutout to @StBeesSilver for my awesome handmade Black Panther masks. If you want one or anything else like this give him a shout 🫡
 

Managed to nab the full and half in recent separate auctions. Chuffed as there were no 1977’s minted by RM so figured IOM was as close as I’d get for this year 👍🏼

Today i received a superb win from @CoinsOfTheRealmAuctions. A gold 4 coin 1997 Britannia set. Every coin is in tip top, clean condition just as if they came from the mint today. All excellent candidates for grading but that's something I have to think about. Pairs perfectly with my silver set so keeping up my matching gold and silver collecting habit lol. It also breaks me in to my first 1oz gold coin so I'm chuffed it's such a great one. 

Another small addition! Thank you @Mtaybar
 

I needed a hand! cool piece from @LiquidMetalsUK arrived today 🍻

The Completed  5 Coin Trapped Set
The final coin arrived today !!! (Happy days )

Thanks to @BullionMan89 for this nice shiny brick. And thanks to @James32 and @Fenlander1 for the tag. Much love. TSF is awesome