KevinG

By far one of my best delivery days to date. Massive thanks to @richatthecroft for my mexican gold and silver @kiskelo for the korean beauty's and the koala and a special thanks to @vicamy for offering me his buggs bunny 1/4oz with a really low mintage 👍
 

Thank you @InvestInCoins888 for this wonderful Isle of Man Proof Sovereign set and also, for helping me out by not only the offer of a lower price, but also holding it until I got funds together to pay for it. 
The little free gift sent with the set was a nice surprise 😄
Also, thanks to the Forum members who bought and are currently looking after the items I sacrificed from my collection to secure the set.  Hope you all enjoy your purchases, for now, I’ll be pestering you all in due course, for them back 😉
I very much appreciated the advice taken from a Forum member I have much respect of prior to making the purchase: ‘Rich,  the Reverse is a little bit Marmite’. But who could deny that the Machin Obverse is an enduring classic.
What I like about this particular set is its completeness- Sovereigns untouched and sealed in the presentation case, COA, original invoice for £388.50! and even the little waxed envelope the Jeweler supplied it in!
Anyway, enough waffle, here’s the lovely 46 year old set.











 

I got these 3 coins today. It took almost two weeks to get here from France.
 
 

I got these 3 coins today. It took almost two weeks to get here from France.
 
 

I got these 3 coins today. It took almost two weeks to get here from France.
 
 

I got these 3 coins today. It took almost two weeks to get here from France.
 
 

I got these 3 coins today. It took almost two weeks to get here from France.
 
 

I got these 3 coins today. It took almost two weeks to get here from France.
 
 

I got these 3 coins today. It took almost two weeks to get here from France.
 
 

I got these 3 coins today. It took almost two weeks to get here from France.
 
 

I got these 3 coins today. It took almost two weeks to get here from France.
 
 

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As always a great purchase from Martin at Silvertrader 3 x 2020 1/2oz 1oz 2oz Luna 3 mice and my P20 Kooks from @Tozer Well packaged and stunning coins at a great price. Big thanks 

I bought lot of silver recently both here on the forum and at another place.
5 1961 500 Lire 20 Swiss 5 francs 1 Yugoslavia 1938 50 Dinari 1 Belgium 1850 5 Francs 1 Brittish 1918 half crown
4 Washington quarters just book fillers 1944 D 1936 S 1939 D 1946 D
1 1943 dutch 2 1/2 Gulden and a PCGS  MS62Liechtenstein 2 Krone

I bought lot of silver recently both here on the forum and at another place.
5 1961 500 Lire 20 Swiss 5 francs 1 Yugoslavia 1938 50 Dinari 1 Belgium 1850 5 Francs 1 Brittish 1918 half crown
4 Washington quarters just book fillers 1944 D 1936 S 1939 D 1946 D
1 1943 dutch 2 1/2 Gulden and a PCGS  MS62Liechtenstein 2 Krone

Where were you when we needed you?
Back in 2008/9, we collected 3.2 tonnes of Perth Mint Australian silver coins from the airport.
We hired a 7.5 tonne GVW lorry, which I was covered to drive on my licence. We were borderline legally loaded, 7 pallets evenly spaced.
Unloading it at our old place on Lytham Road was interesting. It was evening when we arrived with it. Duncan slashed the plastic shrinkwrap of the bundles, handed them down to me, I trucked them across the pavement to our front door, Jane stood in our airlock, opening and closing it for me, moving it through the inner door when we could. It worked well.
There is a pub opposite, many locals were outside drinking, and we heard some shouts like "Eh up, lads, t'gold bars have arrived". We had no security issues, but then Duncan is about 6'4'', well built, and looked quite daunting standing on the back of a wagon wielding a Stanley knife.

A few bars:
 

Love the matt on shiney!

I bought lot of silver recently both here on the forum and at another place.
5 1961 500 Lire 20 Swiss 5 francs 1 Yugoslavia 1938 50 Dinari 1 Belgium 1850 5 Francs 1 Brittish 1918 half crown
4 Washington quarters just book fillers 1944 D 1936 S 1939 D 1946 D
1 1943 dutch 2 1/2 Gulden and a PCGS  MS62Liechtenstein 2 Krone

I bought lot of silver recently both here on the forum and at another place.
5 1961 500 Lire 20 Swiss 5 francs 1 Yugoslavia 1938 50 Dinari 1 Belgium 1850 5 Francs 1 Brittish 1918 half crown
4 Washington quarters just book fillers 1944 D 1936 S 1939 D 1946 D
1 1943 dutch 2 1/2 Gulden and a PCGS  MS62Liechtenstein 2 Krone

Bought a few things from the LCS today.  Starting with a Spanish 1813 Fernando VII 8 Reales minted in Lima, a French 1827 Charles X 5 Franc, and a GB 1696 William III Crown.


A little bit of hammered.  A Felipe IV 1 Tari from the Kingdon of Naples, and a GB Edward IV Light Groat


And a bit of gold.  A 1920 Mexican 2 Peso, and a 1952, 1956, and 1959 Iranian gold Pahlavi's which are the same size and weight as a sovereign.

Some good news for me, postie finally delivered some items I had been waiting for (still got a lot to come yet), got some capsules for my Malaya silver 5 Cents, got the next size up so that they will also fit the silver 3 pence I want to get eventually, 
Also got this really nice .640 silver Curacao/Netherlands 1/4 Gulden these coins were minted at the Denver mint in the USA (no wonder they look so nice) , they were only minted in 1944 and 1947  with 1.5 million being made in 1944, a shout out to @dicker  , thanks for helping me on this one.
 



 

Together with a 'catch-up consignment' of 1/4oz Gold Queen’s Beasts … Dragon, Unicorn, Bull, Falcon, Yale, and White Lion …




NeutronJack
 
 
 

A pair of 1oz gold coins acquired during the mid-March drop in spot price ...



NeutronJack
 

Back from NGC with a new holder. The old one was scratched.      
@Gildeon you were right, they only will do specialty holders on newer coins 1950 ~ and up. Even though my dealer called customer service ahead of time and they said they would.