Silverlocks

The kangas are Perth Mint (P mint mark at 3 o'clock).

Has the reverse of the leftmost 1910 in the middle row been polished?

17 minutes ago, TapiaSTKAu said:

Nice varied collection of 5grams. What is your favourite so far?

Where did you get the sleeves from, I'll like to do the same with my 5grams?

I used these a bit.  You still need to keep them in a box, but they keep dust and scratches off the assay cards.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334401403268

PM'd.

19 minutes ago, HerefordBullyun said:

Well bless my barnacles. What's occurring ere?

What shenanigans have you lot been up to affecting the gold price. 

I think @James32 just got paid.

43 minutes ago, Petra said:

😮🤔mmmmm…. may look on the secondary market later….🤔🤔😁

I think they used to make some other coin with that design as well.  Can't remember what it was called, though. 

5 minutes ago, Petra said:

🤔😮oh no, more silver. Great design, however, prefer this to be on a gold coin🤔😮

Boy have I got great news for you . . .

https://www.royalmint.com/great-engravers/george-and-the-dragon/st-george-and-the-dragon-2024-2oz-gold-proof-coin/

15 minutes ago, Aldebaran said:

I have an iPhone 11 Pro, which doesn’t have a macro facility, that is 13 onwards.

I have looked at macro attachments, are they worthwhile or am I just buying something else that won’t match my expectations?

Also the Pro has three lenses, which one does it fit over?

Thank you people🖖

I can answer this -

Some of my early photos were done with a Samsung Note 10 and a clip-on macro lens.  They're ok as they go but have one major issue in that they can only focus up to a few centimetres from the lens.  This makes it tricky to decently light the coins as the phone gets in the way, and the camera has a very narrow depth of focus (less than 1mm) and the whole assembly is small enough to be prone to diffraction effects.  This makes it tricky to get decent focus on coins.

As the lenses are quite cheap (mine was about £20) it's worth trying.  However, you would get better results with a phone hat has a periscope camera as it will be able to zoom on the coin enough without the macro lens.  Modern iPhones and quite a few modern Android models have these.   @Solachesis took his photos with an android phone that had a periscope camera.

You can see which lens to clip the macro extension over by running the camera app and just looking.  You might also need to take any cases off the phone, as they can get in the way of the lens (in between the lens and the phone's camera) and affect the focus.  You'll probably also need to get a tripod and a clamp for the phone and one of the little bluetooth dohickeys for remotely triggering the shutter.  I also used to use a little spirit level to make sure the phone was pointing straight down.

The last thing is that gold tends to confuse the software that auto-calibrates the colour settings, so you might want to get a grey card (a few quid off Amazon) and figure out how to lock the white balance on your camera app - point the camera at the grey card and lock the white balance once it's adjusted.

1 hour ago, Marko said:

Thanks @Silverlocks there are many bullion versions for sale but I can't find any sellers of the silver proof versions. I used to buy the from @Panda6Pack but for personal reasons he has left the forum, (hopefully all is well for him)

I think he moved back to Italy.

On 02/03/2024 at 16:58, Charliemouse said:

2024 Perth Mint 1oz Silver Kookaburra

Finally added this year's to the collection.  Now complete (until next year).  First of a fresh haul from Silver Trader.

 

Chard's are teasing the 1/10th gold.  I've got the 2021-2023 of these, so I'll probably get the 2024 when it drops.  Maybe I'll have enough left over from the school fees to buy a 2024 dollaridoo this month.

11 hours ago, HonestMoneyGoldSilver said:

Bullion kooks just work

They don't tend to milk or tarnish, they have their own capsules from the mint. I like the overall designs (effigy) and the wildlife

'Kookaburra' is the street name of a Kingfisher that has been incarcerated and forcibly mated with. Upon release they turn into a cross between a Cockerel and a Honey Badger

You wouldn't mess with that, would you? Nah mate, neither would I, and that's why I stack Kooks to scare away the milkmaid monsters

@HonestMoneyGoldSilver - Better change your password.  I think Treetop's gotten into your account.

Sold.

Here's a couple of shots of my 2022 Dollaridoo.  These are done with some strips of 1 and 2 stop filter gel to make soft shadows over a diffuser.  The lighting is a panel and a spot, with the two photos showing different relative brightness.

2 hours ago, Dankanugget said:

How much are the Belgium franc coins?

Mine wasn't much more than a rooster; they're not that uncommon.

14 minutes ago, Booky586 said:

Hi Hotdog, apologies for raising an old post so hope it's still relevant. I have an identical 1887S Sovereign which, like yours, has an oversize diameter of 22.43mm (link to photos below). I also have a Sydney half sovereign where the diameter measures at 19.7mm compared to the specification of 19.3mm, 0.4mm oversize.  Reading other comments and posts on Sydney mint sovereigns around this period it seems it's not unusual to find them larger than spec.

I've got some Air-Tites A22 caps that will fit some sovs comfortably, some a bit tight (Gillicks are prone to this), and I've had a few Australian sovs (Eds mainly) that flat out won't fit into them at all.  I think Australian sovs were often a bit wider than spec for some reason.

1 hour ago, Dankanugget said:

Belgium francs look nice 

Yes, the mantle design in the reverse is nice.

38 minutes ago, Dankanugget said:

Many thanks. I had a ten franc Ceres and still have a twenty franc angel.

I've got a few LMU coins - a few Roosters and Vrenellis and a Belgian and Italian coin, plus a few others.  

A little google-fu shows several online vendors that have them, plus a few on Ebay.  None in the UK, though.

1 hour ago, Dankanugget said:

Does anyone know a good LMU coin to buy and keep that's actually a special monarch or year?

The 1815 Maria Luigia di Parma 40 Lire coin.  She was Napoleon's ex after Josephine and the coin is quite spectacular.  Mintage on the 40 franc is much larger than the 20 franc, so paradoxically it tends to be cheaper.  1815 because it was only minted a few times and the 1815 mintage is the first and by far the biggest at about 220,000.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces21515.html

If you don't mind straying off the LMU, a young portrait Wilhelmina 10 Gulden perhaps

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces37612.html

Some of the earlier French 20 franc designs such as the Ceres

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces8003.html

European gold coins are a deep, deep rabbit hole and, unfortunately, they don't seem to be anywhere as well documented as sovereigns, at least not in any media accessible to googlebot.

Here are a couple of books on the subject.  They're pretty broad, with a fairly comprehensive treatment of their subject matter, but they tend to be shallow, with only some basic statistics on mintages and no real history.

Schlumberger, European Gold Coins Guide Book - https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/european-gold-coins-guide-book_hans-schlumberger/1045234/item/44932759/#edition=58389805&idiq=44932759

Friedburg & Friedburg - Gold Coins of the World - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/112977903350

@Charliemouse

1 minute ago, Shadab said:

Thank you but I am very specifically talking about 2024 Great Engravers. It has been 3 weeks now so I thought it would give enough time to sense how it went hence I will get some answers if I can buy now or wait?

It will take longer than that for the secondary market to settle, I think, maybe 6-12 months.

37 minutes ago, Shadab said:

What is the general consensus here on the group for this new GE coins?

Is it okay to buy 5oz/10oz silver proof if I get a chance at reasonable price?

It would be ok at a 'Reasonable' price, but the majority will fall in value from their retail price, so buying at RRP is more likely to lose you money than otherwise.  I suggest keeping an eye open on the secondary market and getting a sense of where they settle out to.  More often than not (quite a lot more often), you'll lose money on high-value proofs if you buy them straight off the RM's web site at retail.

9 minutes ago, Darr3nG said:

Wonder how easy it would be to recreate something like this:

 

Like this?

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