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Today is a happy day for me.  Managed to source these gold ornamental items.  Now have to patiently wait for them to get to me.
 

1 Escudos cob just arrived from France.
Gold 1 Escudos cob type (hammered coin)
King Phillip II.
Dated 1556 to 1598
Weight:  3.37 g
diameter:  18 mm
Now have the full set (1 Escudo, doubloon & Double Doubloon), just need to get another stand and dome for it.

1 Escudos cob just arrived from France.
Gold 1 Escudos cob type (hammered coin)
King Phillip II.
Dated 1556 to 1598
Weight:  3.37 g
diameter:  18 mm
Now have the full set (1 Escudo, doubloon & Double Doubloon), just need to get another stand and dome for it.

1 Escudos cob just arrived from France.
Gold 1 Escudos cob type (hammered coin)
King Phillip II.
Dated 1556 to 1598
Weight:  3.37 g
diameter:  18 mm
Now have the full set (1 Escudo, doubloon & Double Doubloon), just need to get another stand and dome for it.

1 Escudos cob just arrived from France.
Gold 1 Escudos cob type (hammered coin)
King Phillip II.
Dated 1556 to 1598
Weight:  3.37 g
diameter:  18 mm
Now have the full set (1 Escudo, doubloon & Double Doubloon), just need to get another stand and dome for it.

1 Escudos cob just arrived from France.
Gold 1 Escudos cob type (hammered coin)
King Phillip II.
Dated 1556 to 1598
Weight:  3.37 g
diameter:  18 mm
Now have the full set (1 Escudo, doubloon & Double Doubloon), just need to get another stand and dome for it.

1 Escudos cob just arrived from France.
Gold 1 Escudos cob type (hammered coin)
King Phillip II.
Dated 1556 to 1598
Weight:  3.37 g
diameter:  18 mm
Now have the full set (1 Escudo, doubloon & Double Doubloon), just need to get another stand and dome for it.

1 Escudos cob just arrived from France.
Gold 1 Escudos cob type (hammered coin)
King Phillip II.
Dated 1556 to 1598
Weight:  3.37 g
diameter:  18 mm
Now have the full set (1 Escudo, doubloon & Double Doubloon), just need to get another stand and dome for it.

1 Escudos cob just arrived from France.
Gold 1 Escudos cob type (hammered coin)
King Phillip II.
Dated 1556 to 1598
Weight:  3.37 g
diameter:  18 mm
Now have the full set (1 Escudo, doubloon & Double Doubloon), just need to get another stand and dome for it.

1 Escudos cob just arrived from France.
Gold 1 Escudos cob type (hammered coin)
King Phillip II.
Dated 1556 to 1598
Weight:  3.37 g
diameter:  18 mm
Now have the full set (1 Escudo, doubloon & Double Doubloon), just need to get another stand and dome for it.

1 Escudos cob just arrived from France.
Gold 1 Escudos cob type (hammered coin)
King Phillip II.
Dated 1556 to 1598
Weight:  3.37 g
diameter:  18 mm
Now have the full set (1 Escudo, doubloon & Double Doubloon), just need to get another stand and dome for it.

1 Escudos cob just arrived from France.
Gold 1 Escudos cob type (hammered coin)
King Phillip II.
Dated 1556 to 1598
Weight:  3.37 g
diameter:  18 mm
Now have the full set (1 Escudo, doubloon & Double Doubloon), just need to get another stand and dome for it.

1 Escudos cob just arrived from France.
Gold 1 Escudos cob type (hammered coin)
King Phillip II.
Dated 1556 to 1598
Weight:  3.37 g
diameter:  18 mm
Now have the full set (1 Escudo, doubloon & Double Doubloon), just need to get another stand and dome for it.

1 Escudos cob just arrived from France.
Gold 1 Escudos cob type (hammered coin)
King Phillip II.
Dated 1556 to 1598
Weight:  3.37 g
diameter:  18 mm
Now have the full set (1 Escudo, doubloon & Double Doubloon), just need to get another stand and dome for it.

1 Escudos cob just arrived from France.
Gold 1 Escudos cob type (hammered coin)
King Phillip II.
Dated 1556 to 1598
Weight:  3.37 g
diameter:  18 mm
Now have the full set (1 Escudo, doubloon & Double Doubloon), just need to get another stand and dome for it.

1 Escudos cob just arrived from France.
Gold 1 Escudos cob type (hammered coin)
King Phillip II.
Dated 1556 to 1598
Weight:  3.37 g
diameter:  18 mm
Now have the full set (1 Escudo, doubloon & Double Doubloon), just need to get another stand and dome for it.

An absolutely lovely delivery from @BackyardBullion - one of the first issue of the 250g forum bars
A stunning piece. It has a glorious heft to it and is just so tactile. The ripples on it are amazing and really I'm amazed that he has managed this pouring by eye. Alas I don't have the video/photo kit needed to do this justice in the way light plays on (and off) this in the most glorious way, so I'll have to use the 'official' photo, but you really have to see this beautiful piece in hand to properly appreciate it. It has such a lovely 'well' of ripples at the top that make holding and playing with it, with a perfect groove for your thumb, as good as any stress reliever - it is just such a pleasure to hold (and behold).
Top work BYB, and thank you!

 

EBay pickups in the last several days.  A Silver and two Bronze Victoria Diamond Jubilee Medals.  The Silver Medal is very impressive in hand, 85.7 gram .925 Silver, 55.7mm Diameter.  Pity the proud former owner apparently couldn't resist regularly polishing it instead of leaving it to tone similarly to its Bronze counterparts.  There's a Gold version of this medal.....

@JunkBond@Silvergun
That 1989 sov in cambridgeshire coins looks like it has a scratch on it
 

This 1825 George 1V Gold Sovereign arrived today. Really nice coin.

Thanks for these @arshimo2012, what's not to like about poured Silver.

Way too much - can’t even bring myself to open the rest. Talk about blowing the budget. 

@JunkBond@Silvergun
That 1989 sov in cambridgeshire coins looks like it has a scratch on it
 

2 X glass domes arrived to display my doubloons.
Really happy with them and a nice way to display some coins.

Here circled