MickB

Thanks @SilverMike, lovely Sovereign. 

Today’s additions through the door,
some more of my favourite constitutional USA silver courtesy of @DuncanWylieWilson once again,
and a immaculate 2017 privy marked sovereign with thanks to @Goldfinga

Beautiful thick boy from @SilverMike
My first piedfort!
Thickness is very cool in person.
I’m obsessed with the 2017s…

Modest 1 oz Gold Brit purchase thanks to @BleyerBullion, decided the kids are both going to have a Brit set each in a walnut box; after that they can decide what they want to collect in the future. Just 2 gaps to fill now.

It's my birthday today! And I finally got my copy of the Marsh Sovereign Book! Going to have plenty of time to read it too as I have broken my jaw in three places and the whole lot is wired shut. Freak Bike accident. This forum is helping me stay sane. Thanks guys.

Another two beautiful sovereigns  dropped through the letterbox this morning.
The 2017 Delhi sovereign, which is magnificent. I have promised to keep the source anonymous and will always do so. I do love the modern Delhi sovereigns because they are still using the original gold composition of "yellow" gold, not the rose gold the RM is usings these days. Much more attractive on the eye even when viewed through the tamperproof packaging.
The second is a 1931P picked up from a French company via MA Shops. Another off for grading sometime next week.

A little late but I received this very nice bar from @Jamesd last week.
A great bar and I’m happy to be one of the first buyers of his bars.
I wish him the best of luck in his new venture.
Keep them coming!!

Lots of tiny things from Germany!
I'm such a sucker for buying the same thing in different packaging  

Another crown for the collection 🙂

Today I received... Thanks @PatrickV

 

Today I also received... it's been like Christmas for me this morning! 
I've been waiting for this for a while, months and months infact.
 

Was able to pick up some coins from an antique shop while on holiday. These two are particularly nice in my opinion

A few new bits and pieces this week. Love the Royal arms design 

Not exactly precious metals, but not particularly cheap either!
A pair of 1.5-inch solid metal cubes.
The tungsten one weighs exactly 1kg, which feels unearthly heavy for something so small (unless you happen to have a 1kg gold bar!). In contrast, the aluminium (sorry, aloominum) cube feels unfathomably light and it's hard to believe it's not hollow.

My local bullion dealer was telling me that hardly anyone is selling gold or silver coins to him lately and was unsure why. Same for the market stall trader. Quiet times.

The two silver 2oz coins from arshi & the gold 1/4oz from Atkinsons

another sov to add to my ongoing collection courtesy of @Goldfinga

I have seen quite a few articles online where there has been a raffle and an unsatisfactory outcome - i.e. not enough people entered.
Better odds than the lottery but I will skip this one!
If you go to events run by companies and organisations and there are raffles for prizes, these usually have fantastic odds.  I won a week's salmon fishing in Iceland about 10 years ago in a raffle that was at a charity ball.  Tickets were a fiver and there were perhaps 300 people attending.  Thats good odds 🙂.  I fly fish so it was a perfect win.
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well least you can flog a rare ISAF badge for an entry!

There’s probably a higher chance of winning this than dare I say it, The Postcode Lottery. 😬

Why get involved in this rat race at all, wouldnt give the mint a penny looking forward to the my 2022 is c**p and dinged thread which will inevitably follow 

Probably only raffling it cos they can't find a buyer for it 

Got carried away with myself once again over the weekend and ended up picking these up. 

Looks decent. Cheers for making this 👍

Had another go at sand casting Copper using a small brick kindly donated by @MickB
It turned out better than the previous casting anyway. The Brick will soon be heading home to its new owner 😀
 

A chap at the mint was likely finishing off one of his Benson and Hedges whilst enjoying a cup of PG Tips and a hobnob while reading the racing post.
A bit of fag ash or hobnob was probably swept into the press as he perused the runners and riders at the 2:15 at Chepstow.
In all seriousness, it is one to send back - quite how this passed Kwality Kontrol, is not surprising but disappointing.
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