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Couple more for the collection. The 1902 is gorgeous uncirculated.

Okay so an extra month to try and save then. 😊

Well on Friday I blew the savings.. Don’t tell the boss 🙈
The Shields are going to grading

Hi all, I've just received an 1872 young head shield sov from the most recent TCC auction. I always have a quick look for detail and errors and happened to find this overstrike on the die number. Is this common? I don't expect it will do anything in respect of the value, but it would be nice to know for sure

Received today, another for the Cabinet, this time an 1845 Victoria Crown.  Quite obviously cleaned at some point but nevertheless, some nice detail can be seen, the Cinquefoil stops and the Wyon inscription 😃 
A couple of gaps made ready in the Cabinet tray for nice examples of an 1821 George IV Secundo and the 1893 Victoria when funds permit.
You can start to see which Rabbit hole I have gone down here 🙄 

Been a long time coming. Purchased last summer, took many months to arrive and several more to grade. Worth the wait. Key date, 250 mintage.

Early this year I found a place that was selling a raw 1798 Guinea for around 1250 CAD (720 GBP) and I bought it due to the amazing luster and strike of the coin. Recently I subbed this coin to PCGS for grading and the grade came back MS63. Needless to say I am very surprised and happy about the result along with my MS61 1817 Sovereign.

Another coin from the set:
1887 Queen Victoria Jubilee Gold Proof Five Pound Quintuple Sovereign:

The colour has changed in the upload, even after deleting it and re-uploading, strange!

Colour has remained OK on the reverse.

1887 Queen Victoria Jubilee Silver Proof Crown
From one of only 797 proof sets issued:

Some slight hairlines, but no milk spots!

Doug said "Gorgeous tones", and I agree!

Posted this in a Britannia thread and thought I’d posted it here also. These are all the special 1 year only designs in 1oz gold bullion I have managed to collect (no bullion gold Britannia’s were minted in 2005 so I got the proof). @Abyss and @Stuntman were the people that inspired me to collect these (thank you). Not sure if I’ll continue however I’m hoping the RM will do a special for the jubilee in platinum. Would be a nice full stop!

Well shes returned from grading
1856 califorina fractional 1/4 dollar gold rush currency
Achieving a ms64 to take its place with 3 other examples in this grade with only 1 finer in the world, came close to finest known example ms65
https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/6031571-004/64/
Photo with a 1p to show how small these are and why they are so rare and difficult to find in this grade 





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Other half of last weeks purchases
mint 1890 half sov shield received from Atkinsona without a mark on it iPhone camera doesn’t do it justice,
 
slightly more orange gold than my other half shields I don’t know if it’s because it’s from a different mint/die etc waiting for my Marsh’s guide through the post to tell me,
and a tube of fractional 1/10 2021 Britannia’s Received from @j90rd, high premium but premium in premium out,
could you imagine if silver went £1000/oz taking the mr’s out for dinner with one of these! Haha 

Here are some other coins which are returning from grading 
 

The 1/2 crown is truly stunning.

 

 

Received these nice little coins the other day. 
5oz 3 graces proof coin AND 1815 A 20 Franc coin.  
 

Some purchases from the last couple of weeks.  Took advantage of the dip to buy some gold, and purchased some coins for my U.S. Type Set.
1834 Classic Head Half Cent, 1851 Braided Hair Large Cent, 1909 VDB Lincoln Cent, 1851 Silver 3 Cent Type 1, 1873 Nickel 3 Cent, 1875-S Seated Liberty Twenty Cent, and an 1855-O Seated Liberty Half Dollar with Arrows.

Arrived today from the last CotR auction.  Building slowly...

My brother collected my post while I was away, and he had this beauty waiting for me today.

Picked up three proofs as a lot. Only interested in sovs, so going to sell the fractional Brit.

The long wait is over. My beautiful ladies arrived today. that was one long pre order 😂

My brother collected my post while I was away, and he had this beauty waiting for me today.

Technically not mine 🤩… but im grading it for them. 10oz…
 

Something a little different from my sovereign collection arrived today.
This 1918 Canadian George V 50 Cent coin, .925 silver with some nice toning for its 103 year age.
Thanks again @DuncanWylieWilson

Picked this up on the forum a while back and had it graded. I know there has been a lot of scepticism about the 323 mintage number that was published in the latest Marsh Gold Sovereign book but whether its 323 or 650 its still one of the lowest sovereign mintages ever. Now managed to collect the most significant SOTD coins (in my humble opinion). Next years one could also be a good one with the special reverse