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Had this delivered today as I was inspired by @Goldfever20 post yesterday and to be honest, a little intimidated by Greta Thunberg pointing a pistol at me!! 

Got given this from my youngest daughter today. A mini sterling silver tankard. Great for filling with rum or.... With mini ship gold coins!! 

Today is my silver proof £1 set these have all got black grotty tone around the edge and some are worse than other. I’m doing 12 this afternoon done 6. 
 
This is just 1 coin before and after the results? 

You are too kind with your feedback!
Just shared this with Dad too and he is very humbled by your comments!
Thanks and I look forward to getting the rest of your set made up!

well this is the big one for me, some of you may remember I enquired about a chess set and @BackyardBulliontook care of me, this morning I received my 1st set of pawns and the chess board with storage underneath and I can't tell you how happy I am with the package, you hope it will be great, you see the pictures of previous sets and are excited but just wow!!! 1st thing is the quality of the board and @BackyardBulliondad deserves an incredible amount of praise, its stunning even after I went a wee bit extra and enquired about storage and he nailed it, next the size, its incredible and totally matches the pieces and is really heavy!! the pawns are superb and have felt bottom to save scratching the board which was a nice touch and now I'm sure if anyone has read this far of me waffling the pictures (oh forgot each piece comes in its individual pouch!) and everything was superbly well packed.

As a gay coin collector, I’m more than a little disappointed with the reception this coin has had here. 
Firstly, I'm actually pretty happy with the overall design. I can’t be alone in that I expected a dumpster fire of ideas but it’s come together pretty succinctly. Given the royal mint’s recent offerings, this has fallen in the “oh thank the lord it’s fine” category!!

More importantly though, this is a means of celebrating a deeply important moment in LGBT+ peoples history - a history most of us had to learn for ourselves given it was illegal to be taught we were valid human beings at school (see section 28/2A). 
 
Jokes about “identifying” as this or that may seem flippant to yourselves, but to the people who live those lives it’s anything but. I won’t entertain all comments but I will say I’m not the only LGBT+ coin collector who dreaded opening social media today. And shockingly enough, a fair amount of LGBT+ persons are coin collectors. 
I value this forum as a place of numismatic discussion, not a way of societally punching down. Again - I’m disappointed. 
 
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The comments here are an absolute disgrace.
It’s a new release 50p to represent people who have gone through hell to be who they are. I repeat, people who have gone through hell to be who they are.
Come on guys, you’re better than a comment as a joke for a few ‘likes’ or reactions.
I love this forum until I see these comments.
Imagine not being able to walk down the street holding hands with the person you love.
Imagine not being able to kiss your partner in public through fear of relatiation.
Imagine pretending to be someone you’re not.
Studies have shown: The most homophobic men are themselves bi or gay.
At the end of the day it’s a 50p. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it.
So many comments above could have never been if only the writer thought twice.

Nicest 50p design for a long time and a genuinely important milestone.

where from?

Today I received...
Well, ok, they didn't all show up today, they've been assembled over a six month period. But the last one DID just show up this week, so I'm posting anyways.
Here's a nice mini-collection of Romanian gold pieces in terrific condition. Eastern European gold coinage can be tough to collect, with its unfortunate combination of low mintages and war/revolution/political unrest.
The coins:
1. 1883 20 Lei - LMU standard 0.1867AGW - Minted in Bucharest, 185,290 pieces. King Carol I on the obverse, crowned and draped coat of arms on the reverse. Edge lettering that reads "PATRIA*SI DREPTUL*MEU" (Homeland And My Right).
2. 1890 20 Lei - LMU standard 0.1867AGW - Minted in Bucharest, 196,000 pieces. King Carol I on the obverse, crowned and draped coat of arms on the reverse. Edge lettering that reads "PATRIA*SI DREPTUL*MEU" (Homeland And My Right).
3. 1906 circulating commemorative 20 Lei - LMU standard 0.1867AGW - Minted in Brussels, Belgium, 15,000 pieces. Obverse and reverse both portraits of King Carol I. Milled edge.
4. 1944 Ardealul Nostru medallion, a commemorative issued to mark the liberation of areas of northern Transylvania that were annexed by Hungary in 1940 with the support of Nazi Germany.
Nominally assigned a value of 20 Lei, although not to LMU standards - it mirrors the same size/fineness/weight of the debased 100 Franc - 21mm, 6.55g, 0.1895AGW.
Obverse depicts overlapped busts of Michael the Brave, King Ferdinand, and King Michael. Reverse is a crowned eagle surrounded by the coats of arms of the annexed Transylvanian counties. Edge lettering that reads "NIHIL SINE DEO" (Nothing Without God).
Minted in Vienna, 1,000,000 pieces, though its anyone's guess how many survived the end of WWII and all that came after in this part of the world. Many thanks to @DuncanWylieWilson for this piece that completes my little Romanian mini-collection. Off to deep storage for my ungrateful heirs to one day auction off 😂😂😂

I am hoping Silver is about £15 an ounce by the time I buy your ounce 😀

The Stack is slowly building - I love those old coins - 1884 Sov.

 

Foster88 you inspired me to get one! It's a little bit beaten up but not too bad for something made in 1919. Really happy with it👍

Once you pop you can't stop.

Some more Mexican silver today. 
5 precolombinas which are extremely hard to come by and also a couple of 2oz libs in my quest to complete a 2oz libertad date run