Bullionbilly

Stephen Hawkings, 2 X piedfort + a gold

959.04g (30.837oz) of silver content for an average of @£10.30 per oz. Phoenix, Rice and 64 Olympics

Today I received:
100g Geiger bar from @RowanRK6
5x Buffalo coins from @SilverStan
I have to say the Geiger bar is my favourite 100g bar I have so far. Much better seeing Geiger bars in the flesh!
The size comparison between the other 100g bars (see last pic) is pretty interesting. Makes me want to get more Geiger bars!

Arrived today- recent eBay pick ups, and coins from @fiveshotdon & @arshimo2012.
The 2012 Half was purchased on behalf of a Forum member who lives outside of the UK but he has kindly agreed to swap it with me for my NGC Graded Half- I now have all this Sovereign year date PCGS graded.
The 2002 Double in time, will be going off for conservation & grading as it has fingerprint marks.  

Lovely coins ! I really like the lines that run at the back of the maple leaf

Week starts well with a bit of vintage Perth Mint silver 😊 🇦🇺 

Spot silver - 13 Australia 1966 50 Cents at £11.45/oz.

My first gold!

and these beauties...
Courtesy of @BackyardBullion
Cheers Mr & Mrs BYB!

When it rains, it pours...or in the case of today, when it snows, it snows.😥. But I digress...this load has arrived over the past couple of days and I have just been too overwhelmed with everything to do an unboxing! So here is a preview of what is to come courtesy of @richatthecroft, @TheCoinConnection, APMEX, The US Mint, and Bullion Exchanges!...
 

My first sovereign.

This time a pre 33 San Francisco Mint $10 Liberty Head with a lovely S Mint Mark 😊 

After waiting two years .....I have eventually managed to buy a 2017 silver Krugerrand for under £30 inc postage...
Slowly catchy monkey 🐒 ..
I can’t remember how much these were at launch, but I do know I considered it way too much...2018 & 2019 to follow on next group order.
 

 

100g Metalor and Scottsdale bars received from @StackSellRepeat.
Nice little chunky bars 😊.

Today (well, yesterday) I received two boxes of silver building blocks. There are six 1oz blocks in each tobacco-tin style box. They are branded Monarch Precious Metals- I have seen them mentioned on this site before.
As a lifelong fan of Lego, I was slightly disappointed to discover that the silver blocks are a bit smaller than a classic 2x4 studs Lego brick, so they can't interlock with Lego, but they are fun to stack with anyway (they interlock with each other just fine) and I am sure I will never run out of ways to stack them: two 2x4 Lego bricks can be connected together in 24 ways; with three bricks there are 1060 ways; with six bricks there are 915,103,765 ways and the number of combinations of 12 bricks is (currently) incalculable.
Here are a few pictures of the bricks and their discovery by Benny's Space Squad (characters from the recent Lego Movie 2) and their attempt to make off with the bricks before being caught- a tense moment ensues before everyone decides to make friends and that everything is awesome...

Very nice 👆

Few random bits from me...
4 x 1oz Silver Pamps courtesy of @MickD
Vintage Sovereign Scales. Need a bit of a clean and polish.
2 x Monster Boxes courtesy of @Bullionbilly to keep my Pamps in 😁
 

1.5oz of diseased magical goat bullion😊
Edit: Meant in the most endearing way possible, as I do like these very much!

Just received the following tube of 2019 dragon coin bar thank you Mrs BYB and @BackyardBullion perfectly packaged.
Also a separate delivery of a 2018 dragon bar. Zi sin scrofa, world of dragons 2nd in series silver and 1st & 2nd in series coppers.

Received some nice Silver from @MickD, this morning, cheers Mick.
It appears Silver can’t fly-  true, in terms of the current spot price! 

Here’s what was inside...wait,  there’s a bloody mouse in the house...and thanks @Sparrowlegs4 for the Sovereigns. 

Thanks to @richatthecroft for the link to Sarnia.  These worked out at about £44.20 each posted.
 

 

Perhaps you are right- maybe it wasn't a 'glitch', but they do happen to online retailers- recently with Sharps Pixley for example, @Bullionbilly I think? and I can testify to this personally, I remember buying a ridiculously cheap flat screen television years ago, when flat screen TV's were extremely expensive (now in the techno graveyard of course!) from an online retailer who honoured the order. 
I guess we'll never know- but if it wasn't a 'glitch', and the coins actually exist in stock, then I guess they will list them at the high premium this coin typically achieves- but this would be extremely cynical of them to do so in the next several days-  I guess the cynics could, their time permitting monitor the HGM site.  
I am certainly not defending HGM, I have no allegience to them and buy very little from them.   My post above was to point out that the staff at this organisation took the time to get on the phone and point out their error (if it was an error) and the lady that handled the call did so professionally and I believe, sincerely, if it were my business I would be proud of the way the staff handled the call.  She did offer me the same coins for the 'same price I can source them for'- I would add that the price she offered the coins for was, in my opinion, reasonable given the prices other dealers are currently charging- I declined the Lions at her offer price,  but I did negotiate a fantastic deal with her on another coin-  customer service at its best.  
My experience of HGM's customer service was refreshing and a scarce commodity nowadays

Part of the Feb Order I am so pleased to have bought this "Valiant"......
All I need now is for the RM to produce an  Ivanhoe, Lochinvar and Sir William Marshal (greatest Knight ever) and I will be very, very happy.
Just look at the way this finish on the horse stands out at the right angle and the detail of the bridle, not to mention the Dragons chest scales.
It's a shame they didn't use one of the queens younger "Princess" images to romanticise it........
(What a shame the plastic case scratches so easily)
 

 
 

I had them all in my basket when I phoned HGM I was about to pull the trigger logged into bank accounts tally up salary rental income and I am short couple grand (Harrington and Byrne Sovereigns / group order and some hand poured silver) meant did not have enough funds in the UK to buy them all .