Dakaras

2 hours ago, Scaffstacker said:

This past weekends addition 

A lovely rainbow toned Johnson Matthey 100 gram bankers bar in a vintage display box smelling like a museum 🤣 

Mintage of just 500 according to the allengelhard site, 

nice little addition to my jm collection.

with thanks to @BullionBob

Love the cased JM bar. 

Just now, paulmerton said:

My first time there, too. They let us have 3 each!

Only today's ones had the horse reverse, so there will certainly be fewer than 1,400 of these in existence. A few people on my tour didn't even get any, so in all likelihood this presentation is rarer than today's SOTD Sovereign! 🤣 

Brilliant it's on my list in May when we head to west coast

1 minute ago, paulmerton said:

When in Rome...

Worth the trip I would say! 

1 hour ago, LiquidMetalsUK said:

super cool.delivery today. New designs from the mega talented Rios 

Superb who makes these?

1 minute ago, Furnace said:

Really happy with these, all the talk of a pocket piece got me thinking and I settled on the Sugar skull. The Killer Bee was a very welcome surprise. Great stuff @StBeesSilver I'll be back for more!

Quality pieces nice addition to any collection

24 minutes ago, Petra said:

Great Victorian engineering, simple, but effective!

Learn something new everyday, well that's me sorted never seen one before thanks for showing us.

15 minutes ago, Agaumac said:

Was hoping to stay under the radar on this one…. But will probably succumb. Some beautiful pieces shown last couple days

Outted

@Gruff We can suffer together, I've a list that includes @BackyardBullionand @LiquidMetalsUK . Might have to sell some stuff, sure I've a spare child kicking around.

20 hours ago, Midasfrog said:

@dickerI joined a facebook group called English hammered and early milled coin collectors , some stunning pictures of coins on there that are not seen every day 👍

This was posted found by a lucky detectorist today Edward VI boy King and a couple of pictures from some other collectors 

It's the best pre 1820 coin group out there IMHO the knowledge of British hammered coins is outstanding. 

Love the Cobra, can't see to find anywhere in UK selling them, any ideas? 

Here's a spin for you, going through a bag of pre 1920s silver (which I got from @stefffana thank you very happy) I noticed almost without exception the reverse of shillings and sixpences was more worn that the obverse, so weaker strike? Less deeply engraved dies? 

Just occurred to me the pressure of the strike should be same for both sides shouldn't it?

Yes agree, I would be chuffed to find that. 

@sixgun@ady Thank you both for taking the time. I had a moment's day dream it might be silver did think pewter, really useful info I shall pass that on to the owner of the pieces.

@Admin please move to non precious of you think it needs to

Good afternoon all.

I've seen these hallmark's today on a couple of items, I've had a quick Google and frankly going to take a month! So I thought I know a forum where someone will know! 

Are they silver or pewter marks? The item's look silver but honestly not a scooby. 

If pewter and in wrong place apologies to the admin team, please move as you see fit.

To anyone that takes the time to look thank you. Attached picture from the bottom of one small plate. 

Yes out a few times a week with the dog, that's how I got into coins and stacking.

Make sure you permission is best advice I can give and remember you have to walk over it. Attached my best gold find to date

46 minutes ago, Centauri167 said:

Welcome Adam on this great forum, it will be a place were you will learn a lot more about collecting and stacking !

Thank you

40 minutes ago, Griffo said:

Love the piece that Silver Angel Pouring did for me, its chunky but reminds me why we work hard and appreciate the beauty in life. 

Now that's lovely

Found it, tree of life really do like that.

On 15/10/2021 at 21:16, SilverDrum said:

I had a coin arrive from GS.be that was milk spotted beyond belief, so bad that i decided it couldn't get worse. It's actually got better looking with the tones that have come out. It's the only other fondling/desk piece, but it's not often in the pocket.

Shared it the other day, but will share again for the patina appreciation. 

Enjoyed this thread thank you all. @SilverDrumwhat coin is this? I absolutely love it. 

Read this thread with interest, as a new stacker and new (ish) collector the simple reason I'm with silver is cost, much as I would love to be pumping spare money into stacking gold it would be very much a purchase every few months giving me a less versatile stack. By concentrating on silver I get the buying buzz more often, can afford spur of the moment purchase's if a deal presents itself and should I need to cash any out then yes a quick sale will undoubtedly cost me, but with time to sell I don't believe I will be massively out of pocket. 

Gold for now is the future, decent year with the day job that will hopefully change but covid has given my business a fair hit in the balance sheet. 

A

Thanks for the welcome all. Already found new targets via the forum links. Great place

Evening all

New member found forum via youtube had an interest for a few years, looking at stacking as a way to hold funds for the long term as well as expanding the coin collection, plan at the moment for a little as often as I can. Don't have a system sussed as yet I'm just buying a different 1oz bullion coin when I get one of each I like thinking may look at bars who knows. Also try to pick up old crowns etc if i can.

Based South UK Berks / Oxon borders

Thanks to admin for the add

Best Dak aka Adam