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This arrived today.  Thank you @Bars.
Photography info:  As you can see, I'm still experimenting with the angle and lighting.  Handheld with a DSLR and macro lens, outside on a very sunny day.
 
 

Three of these little beauties arrived Saturday.  I'll post more photos later, but I'm experimenting with my camera set-up.

Today I received…I wish!
Great afternoon at the Royal Mint..

Any new piece of gold, in any shape and purity in more than welcomed in my house!🤗
 

Lovely little piece thanks to @arphethean
 

Today (recently, lol) I received...
This fantastic and scarce coin which for the time being is the crown jewel of my LMU collection.
The coin is an 1848 Republic of Venice (San Marco) 20 Lire. A one-year edition only, as the revolutions of 1848-49 sweeping Europe generally, and the Italian States in particular, turned out to be fairly short lived.
A total of 5,210 of these absolutely breathtaking 20 Lire coins were minted (I believe in Turin, but I haven't confirmed). The obverse is the Lion of St. Mark, and value within wreath on the reverse.
One thing that I have noticed with graded pieces is there is a prevalence of Prooflike designations for these coins. I've tried to capture the reflective, prooflike nature of this coin but its really difficult to do in photos. In hand, it is amazing to see. A very, very beautiful mirrorlike finish. Angle it in the sunlight the right way and you could signal an airplane with it! One of the nicest coins I've had the privilege to add to the LMU collection and one of the very few raw coins I would consider sending off for grading to validate and conserve it.
 
 

RM Gold Proof UK £1 Floral Icons Collection   Issued between 2013 and 2014 these four gold proof coins each weigh in at a respectable 18g AGW. When I saw them offered below spot by @shawy2510I decided to offload a few duplicate sovs and half sovs and fill all available boots.    Switching from RM bullion at spot+4% to gold proof at spot-0.5% has rarely been a tough decision. As a somewhat keen collector of PM round pounds this was a particularly felicitous bonus.

SO...... got my first Tavex order through today with a 1/10 year of the tiger
Could have got it cheaper from a strange man in Blackpool by a couple of quid 😂 but wanted to try their service and the packaging is great and with a steady hand with my Stanley knife, I put some other fractionals in plus my fav type of sov... a nice Gillick

Completed the set ☺️ Thought id get some photos before they went off to the safe. The original is superb and the photo’s do it no justice, deep blues and purples.

 

 

 

Big thanks to @arshimo2012 and @AgD for this bundle. 

Last week's pickups. A quick snap before I dropped them off 

2021 RM Silver Proof Coin Set with Machin Ten Bob Bit   With a mintage limited to a maximum (and as yet unconfirmed) mintage of 550, I was pleasantly surprised to pick this set up at auction at a delivered price equating to a 60%+ discount on last year's issue price. Even for the RM that is a hefty tumble, so I am led to conclude that the auction house's decision to leave the set in its unopened state and offer only a photo of the outer cardboard box worked heavily in my favour.   Standing head and shoulders above the rest is the Decimal Day 50p with the Arnold Machin obverse, a coin only available in this set. A very good-looking coin.   The RM has clearly subcontracted its research to the likes of the criminally inept Gates funded Full Fact. Quadrupedal invaders are precisely what HG Wells did not describe. Notwithstanding, the coin - much like the Logie Baird 50p - is otherwise not unattractive.   The £5 crown and Walter Scott £2 coin both show the unmitigated lack of imagination that fairly represents the lack of thought so prevalent throughout the UK in 2021.

Recieved today two belters for the collection 
1825 Ms63 1/2 sovereign 
1809 MS63 third guinea 

Ordered a mixed year eagle and got a nice surprise 🙂

These arrived today.

Received a very kind gift from a work friend today who is originally from New Zealand and knows I have a thing for coins and shiny stuff.
1949 NZ George 6th Crown (.500 silver) for a proposed royal visit which was cancelled when old George fell ill. 
200,000 minted in London and shipped over to NZ.
A nice coin in nice condition, happy days.

Got this awesome gift from my son for my first Father's Day.
Massive thanks to the Mrs, and of course@BackyardBullion
Edit: I should also mention that my birthday is 15th March, hence the 3.15ozt

I had to drop some new items off at safe deposit box yesterday, so took my camera along to finally see my gold stack together - viewing room table wasn't big enough to get everything into one shot  For someone who could never hold onto money in his 20s I think Ive done OK 

Lovely tiny medal

NGC results and a few other goodies today.
Some of you may remember the ‘bullion’ SA crown I picked up for £12…came back a PF65 🤩

Recieved today 
1803 half guinea that I sent for grading and has achieved MS64 joint top pop one of two 

Don't think I've ever posted on this thread, but felt I had to in this instance - didn't strictly receive them today (actually yesterday!) but wanted to thank the members responsible for supplying the final 5 x 1oz Silver 2021 Britannias to complete my first Full Tube! 😁 🎉
So a big thank you to @arphethean & @SilverDrum for 3 & 2 Brits respectively 😊
...and I already have a couple of empty tubes standing by to start again! 😏

^^ (not toned, just the dodgy lighting in the spare room / office 😊)

Full Tube!! Yaaay !!

These fantastic coins arrived through my door at 0830 this morning, less than 16 hours after @matt1r posted them. A birthday gift for a friend who was schooled in France in the 60’s. Super happy. Silver once again comes to the rescue.

2021 35th Anniversary Gold Proof 1oz Nugget & Minions   With an absurdly low mintage of just 100, the opportunity to pay spot+1% for a proof 1oz coin with a recognised pedigree was somewhat of a "no-brainer".    Many thanks to @James32 who also provided the two 1/4 proof Nuggets (mintage 300) at an excellent price.   My only qualm is that the Perth MInt's idea of "proof" is somewhat inferior to that of the RAM - Betty's complexion on all these coins seems to be on a par with the surface of the nugget.

Killer JM bankers bar with the most amazing natural toning