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1900 sovereign, veiled head, from Hatton Garden Metals. Also came with rather nice box:

My first PAMP silver bar - 10oz of beautiful shiny courtesy of @StackSellRepeat

A good day. Bought a loose double sovereign 2005 proof at an auction before the summer for £490 landed. Looked like this (cf pic from the auction website). Sent it in for grading after a bit of TLC at home, plus conservation at NGC and just came back 3 months later at PF70 Ultra Cameo...a perfect coin (£490 plus £65 grading fees). Only 10 PF70UC or DC graded in total thus far at NGC and PCGS respectively. Well worth the punt on grading from effectively a bullion coin buy plus a bit. A rarity. Not a massive win in the great scale of life but a nice result either way and a good chunk of bullionesque level British Sovereign gold
A fun day 
 


She is lookiing better the more ale I drink but all the birds always do  Joking aside, this is the first proof coin  I have of this year and to see it in PF 70 is engaging.

Today I received a load of hassle from a Parisienne coin dealer...sold me this coin as TTB+....you can get your fingernail under the crack!
Caveat Emptor indeed...return opened so let’s see how it goes with you know who and PayPal..
Beware a scanned image and not a photograph...they can hide such a lot!
 

A 2002 half sovereign
 
 

A puzzle board and silver elemental cube from @BackyardBullion.  The puzzle board looks great and is extremely functional...the tiles slide very easily and smoothly.  Also the elemental cube is very well done.  I wasn't sure how a poured, hand made version of these cubes would turn out, but he did an awesome job!
 

Sorry about the pictures. 
But my BYB 10.12oz ripple bar arrived today and I cannot wait until tomorrow when the sun is shining to show this beautiful piece of art,
also stamped VR46 after my hero Valentino Rossi Moto GP legend. 
Muchas gracias a todo la familia de BYB. 

Man those Umicore cast bars are just gorgeous. Is there any place that has them in stock? 250g to 1000g it doesnt even matter. I love em!
 

Nice little catch up order from GS.BE. No issues and very well packaged and 2 day delivery from being on hold...
Nice to have my sets /runs up-to-date and my lunars finished with the arrival of the bacon 🐷

Not rare but nice. Having set up an eBay offer war chest, i picked some premium coins for bullion prices:


i also create some "unsellable" listings during eBay seller offer time and switch then the item in (e.g the 1887 is available as it is too good for my bullion bag but not good enough for grading)

My first Geiger Edelmetalle bar... it's quite beautiful 

100g cast bars 
Metalor 999.0, BYB 999, Heimerle 999.9
 

I have finally got round to complete the pyramid lol

It was good to meet up today and a pleasure to deal with you. Good luck in hunting the rest of the coins your after down

I have bought 5x 1oz Gold Coin, The Griffin - Queens Beast for cash from @Gordon
Already purchased 1oz Gold Lion of England via eBay and have purchased the remainder of @Gordon 1 oz Queens Beasts coins no longer able to complete the collection. Just say thank you Gordon for all your help and pleasant sale.

Not going to divulge amount of money paid for them but sitting £20 notes exchanged for all five.

I need 5x of the following
1 oz gold QUEEN'S BEAST 2016 LION OF ENGLAND
1 oz gold QUEEN'S BEAST 2017 RED DRAGON
Anyone willing sell their 1oz Gold Lions/Red Dragons reasonable premium let me know. Thanks.

Engelhard attack! 😍
Thanks to @StackSellRepeat
 

Beautiful 10oz Britannia bar courtesy of @SilverStan. Now I just need to track down a capsule for it 🤔
 

Beautiful 10oz Britannia bar courtesy of @SilverStan. Now I just need to track down a capsule for it 🤔
 

Courtesy of @richatthecroft a 250g Umicore Silver bar and a Proof 2002 Sovereign.
I've not seen the 2002 in the flesh yet as its an xmas present from the wife. She took the pic so judge away 😁
 
 

1843 Narrow Shield - Exceedingly rare, an EF example of this coin commands approx. £25,000
For those who don't know this coin came about most likely from unspent pattern dies taken from storage. Nobody knows why this was done in 1843, and this pattern reverse is also different from the 1838 narrow shield.
 
 

Beautiful 10oz Britannia bar courtesy of @SilverStan. Now I just need to track down a capsule for it 🤔
 

Beautiful 10oz Britannia bar courtesy of @SilverStan. Now I just need to track down a capsule for it 🤔
 

The Isle of Man sovereign (with an old English sovereign for comparison). I love how 'gold' the manx one is!