Dan12345

Late Victorian Silver collection 1887-1901, with good toning on the 1900 Florin and 1897 Half Crown.
 

Just starting out

Only been stacking a few months so not got much of a stack yet. Gonna stack gold now and have a sovereign coming in the post. 

Got this lovely lot through the door today thank you so much to @DuncanWylieWilson for allowing me to gather such a wonderful collection I'm delighted and some stunning coins also my world gold stack is growing too! Thanks again I really appreciate all your hard work you rock 🤘😜🤘

This one's not to pretty

Some amazing additions to my world gold collection arrived today, thanks to @DuncanWylieWilson the 8 Escudos and 16 Pesos are huge !!

Today I received a number of fantastic world gold pieces from @Leonmarsh
It would be hard to pick a favorite out of this batch but I'm going to do it anyways and give a special shout out to the Tunisian 100 Franc, for more reasons than one. Not only is it a beautiful design and in flawless condition, but its face value and metal content can't help but get you thinking.
Unlike a true LMU 100F minted in the decades previous (even into the late 20's in Italy), which were 35mm and contained nearly a full ounce of gold (0.9335ozt), this 100F measures 21mm, weighs 6.55g, and contains 0.1895 ozt of gold. Of course, fellow LMU nerds will immediately recognize this as essentially a 20F, though its not dead on.

So when is 100F not 100F? You might say its when it goes from nearly an ounce of gold to a fifth of an ounce. In Europe, it happened during and after the first world war. Ironically, because countries tried hard to maintain a fixed point of reference using gold, and the gold (or silver) was literally in the coin, you can see very clearly the points along the way where these devaluations/debasements happened. Moving into the post WWII era, Bretton Woods, and into modern times, those points become difficult to see clearly, with little or no fixed points of reference.
Its interesting to think about today in terms of the inflation we see all around us, the $1M price tags on houses, people feeling priced
out of absolutely everything. Is it even really possible to know when $100 is not $100 anymore? Or £ or €? At least in France (or Tunisia, lol) in 1935, if you held a 100F coin in your hand that used to mean an ounce but now meant a fifth-ounce, you knew exactly where you stood in the world, economically. You probably didn't like it, but you knew!
Sorry for the rant folks. Not only did I receive these beautiful coins this week, but I also filled some diesel trucks at work with fuel at historically high prices. Puts me in a philosophical frame of mind and reminds me why I like precious metals! 

Picked this one up from the royal mint recently. Decimal day silver proof piedfort 

Nice coin, royal mint historics are normally well over priced 

First sovereign to the collection. Not bad for an Atkinson's mix date sov 
 

Just a mixed bag of sovereigns....
  

All my overseas minted Sovereigns - nothing from the RM!!
Sydney = 6,  Melbourne = 5, Perth = 2, Canada = 2, South Africa = 2, India (Bombay) = 1, India (New Delhi) = 2 and finally,  Isle of Man (Pobjoy) -Yes, its in the Irish Sea!
 
 
 

Worth it for the back...

A nice assortment today.

So knock knock...postie here...delivery from UK for you....
5 lovely Gillick head sovs (58,63,65,66 &68) in great condition arrived today from the UK courtesy of @tallthinkev. Thanks to Kev for being open to the international sale and helping me do my first deal on TSF.

 

I had a pocket piece an 1888 Morgan was in decent condition as well. Liked the fill of it in hand. One day had it in my hand and I really don't know how it happened but it flew out of my hand and went straight down a drain 🙄 didn't bounce just straight down. Gone forever 😰😰😓😖

Only been stacking a few months so not got much of a stack yet. Gonna stack gold now and have a sovereign coming in the post. 

Wow that's were I want to be at. Were do you buy those tubes from ?

Only been stacking a few months so not got much of a stack yet. Gonna stack gold now and have a sovereign coming in the post. 

How much they selling these for In Costco?

Nice luster on these, love my 1968 sov

How much they selling these for In Costco?

3oz platinum proof.
Limited edition to 52 coins. 
 

How much they selling these for In Costco?

How much they selling these for In Costco?