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Oh yes I'm def going to try and get one every year 100%

Thanks BYB mine arrived the other day and I made a video on my tiny 5 sub YouTube channel 🙂

199 please. 🤖 (Just posting this side of the update in case last one got lost #donthateme)

199 please. 🤖

Thanks Sovereign Steve, yours and the other comments in this thread really lifted my spirits

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Falling about laughing at this. It's such a shame that proofs are so hard to enjoy. Yeah I used to use dust off to clean my records and you never can be 100% sure that there isn't a wet blast coming. One benefit of my recent disaster is that I got to spend a lot of time with the coin outside of its case. Even now it it beautiful from certain angles, like liquid metal. An experience I wouldn't want to risk again unless I was in a dust free vacuum chamber and possibly wearing a space suit.

Oh wow 🤣 that would have been great. I mean the image arguably makes more sense in colour. Than again how cool would it have been to ressurect an original Alfred coin?

Excellent article! Thanks for sharing. By the way I should add that the Canute proof is a really breathtaking coin. Photos and videos really don't do it justice. Now I've recovered a bit, I reckon I'll probably flog this and splash out for another before long.

Oh yes 100% Good advice.

So I know there are people in the world with real problems right now and nobody died or lost an eye but just wanted to share this story. Hopefuly might give someone a LOL. So I've never been a proof guy... but picked up a silver proof King Canute cus I really liked the design. Anyway that bad boy arrived in the post yesterday. I opened him up and to my shock there was a brown globule of water inside the capsule. I don't know if it was condensation or what. I also know that I should have left well enough alone, contacted the seller and sent it back. But I was a fool... an impatient fool and I couldn't let it lie. I took a clean hankie, opened it up and dabbed the wet globule away. Job done. Perfect. Except... on closer inspection it left two small grease marks on the kings cheek. Tiny marks, not too much larger than the eye of a needle. Only visible at certain angles. Leave it alone I thought. You're playing with fire. Screw up the capsule and forget about it. But no! I was a fool twice. I took the hanky, bunched it up to a fine point and tried to brush the marks away. Big problem. Now the marks have spread all over the king's cheek. Disaster. I rushed to Google. Alcohol? Hand sanitiser? Soapy water? I went for soapy water. Put on gloves and dipped it in water with a spot of fairy. OMEGA LEVEL DISASTER... Now the grease marks have cleared to reveal a horde of micro scratches obviously caused by my wiping. What's more I pad the coin dry and now there are water spots on it and it it's attracting great heaps of dust from the air. Each pad of the towel just makes it worse and worse. The formerly beatiful obverse is now misty and spotted. Fine. I give up. Lesson learned. Don't buy any more proofs... I'm not cut out for the world of proofs. Anyway, at least I have a goofy story.

"These days if you say you're English you get arrested and thrown in jail" 😁

Thor rocked up at my house today...

Don't want to spam this thread with my junk silver but I ordered some more rocking horses during the week and this one just blows my mind. The muscles on the horse, the mottled rubbery skin of the dragon, the beautiful texture in the horse blanket. George has lost a bit of detail around his hairline but this one really showcases his steely Yul Brynner expression haha!😁

Ooh! Waiting list please!📡