Frenchie

Germania 5 Mark 2019- Mintage 25000

 
 

Those ikea shelves are stronger than I'd imagined

I thought you kept your gold in the most secure safest location on the earth Fort Knox. It looks very tidy and clean to me

Bank of England has Venezula's gold but unfortunately they cannot return the gold because they have forgotten which pile it is in........

Just got today the 2nd  Leopard Ghana 2018, 5 cedis. Really beautiful coin with nice shades and reliefs. Seems to be a clear  winner  to me with a limited mintage of 8500.

Just got today the 2nd  Leopard Ghana 2018, 5 cedis. Really beautiful coin with nice shades and reliefs. Seems to be a clear  winner  to me with a limited mintage of 8500.

Just got today the 2nd  Leopard Ghana 2018, 5 cedis. Really beautiful coin with nice shades and reliefs. Seems to be a clear  winner  to me with a limited mintage of 8500.

Just got today the 2nd  Leopard Ghana 2018, 5 cedis. Really beautiful coin with nice shades and reliefs. Seems to be a clear  winner  to me with a limited mintage of 8500.

Received from @TheCoinConnection, a  high quality 2019 Gold Sovereign Proof!

 
And five 2018 China 1 oz Silver Tientsin Dragon Dollar Restrike (PU), newest addition to the Dragon Dollar Restrike series. 

I just want give credit to @silversky for all the effort/time/energy/care when sending the following packages arrived today........


I cannot emphasis effort/time/energy/care @silversky put into packaging the items put some of the UK Bullion Dealers to shame. What wonderful items did I receive today?

Added them existing stack 10 oz Silver Coins



Each Royal Mint box contains 25x 10 oz Coins and tube Australia 1 oz Silver Dragon bars. Completed a full set 10x 10 oz Coins Lion/Griffin/Dragon/Unicorn and Valiant.

Received two packages today one from @BackyardBullion acting intermediary for the sale of 1 oz Gold Queens Beast Lion coin between @Bizzle and myself. BYB packaging as always excellent.

The last 1 oz Gold Lion I was after helped me to complete stack of 10.
The European Mint delivered the last shipment of 1 oz Gold Queens Beast Coins the set Bull. European Mint communication and packaging has been excellent.
My stack gold now complete until next QB 1 oz Gold release. Collected 10x of each 1 oz QB Gold coin.


Going into private non-banking related safety deposit box but it will be a real shame when I don't have them nearby to hand any longer.

Today I received a small sheet of 1 oz Gold pandas from year 2006 in OMP.

I've been away from the site for a bit so I can't remember if I uploaded this pic of the Pamp 2017 Sov with a bug sealed inside
I guess this is confirmation of being a gold bug 
(do odd things happen to everybody or just me lol)

Finally got the 5 oz silver proof Lion to complete the current queens beasts series.

New Lunar series from France, started last year and it is their second round I think. My interest was in the silver high relief version and got this year's pig. Really happy with the product, I will probably continue with this one. Very nice coins, good detail and packaging. Going for the dog now, when I visit Paris this December. 😀
 

Two additional 1 oz Gold Beasts landed into my collection (Lion & Dragon). Seller is not a member silver forum and the coins did not have any capsules but still in pristine condition. My lonely Red Dragon of Wales now has brother. Still on the hunt for 5x Lions / 4 Griffins and 8 Dragons in 1 oz Gold. In my experience the Dragon proven the hardest coin to backdate on the secondary market.

I have asked reputable European dealer to price match 10 x 1 oz Queens Beast Gold Coins for Falcon / Black Bull and Unicorn of Scotland with a not so well known/reputable dealer selling 1% over spot and they did. Reputable dealer then retracted the price match but still offered a significant discount so I pulled the trigger. The next photo of the mighty 1 oz Gold Queens Beasts will showcase 43 oz Gold in a couple of weeks time.

Added 0 minutes later.. They vary wildly in price depending on the condition, size, colours, any restoration and country of origin/where sold, I have a very good friend in the fossil and mineral trade so I get stuff at trade price.
By an large a small Meg tooth 2" - 3" in superb condition, £50 - £80
medium Meg tooth,  3.5" -  4.5"  in superb condition, £90 - £160 
5" - 5.5"  in superb condition £170 - £500+
above 5.5" to maximum rare monster 6" - 7.5" £2500+
A superb colour and shape 2.5" meg, showing serrations, no restoration and minimal chips will be worth the same as a monster 5" tooth that has been broken in half.
Each tooth is unique, they are not actual teeth anymore, basically what happens is the tooth drops to the bottom of the sea bed, gets covers in sediment, after 100's of years the sediment around it goes hard, a few 1000 years later the tooth has all but decayed leaving a perfect cast and void, this void slowly fills over millions of years with minerals, what minerals determin the colours and perfect cast in stone is made, some are very delicate depending of the rock they were formed from.
If you ever want a tooth and need help give me a shout, I can usually get them far cheaper than what they go for online and on places like ebay.

Today I recieved, nothing for me, I ordered these for my daughter and a friend who are collecting the marvel series, I must say the detail on the Deadpool character is better in the flesh than on pictures I saw beforehand on the web.

 
Totally unrelated but I did pick up another large Carcharocles Megalodon tooth, a nice 5.5" one.
 

 

 

My Australian proof Sovereign from @ChardsCoinandBullionDealer bonanza week (hope we see more offers/deals like that in future). Plus I got two random year maples that were both 2012 and spotless! Literally (for all the talk of milk spots on maples, I've bought a fair few random year ones and none of them have been milky yet.) Anyway, back to the main attraction. This Sov a little stunner:

Last week got the 1/4oz pig proof to complete set.
 

Arrivals the other day. Another 1oz Lion of England. And also feel so lucky receiving a beautiful 1 Onza Libertad. 



The Winged Goddess of Liberty flanked by the two Lions. Safe and sound.

 
 
 

2018 China 8 gram Gold Panda...have I caught Panda fever?

 
1917-C George V Gold Sovereign (MS 62), listed Rare in Marsh

 
2019 1 oz Silver Queen’s Beast Falcon of the Plantagenets Proof. Very exquisite feather detail really stands out in this one!

Many hours of drudge and misery doing overtime, much reorganisation of my stack and lots of flipping of coins and bars have resultantly,  led me to warmly receive these keepers.  Thank you to all who have helped me on my way... to finally come out, as a collector!

So glad to get these 2 little pigs. I just hate having gaps in a collection 😁

1oz gold proof Falcon of the Plantagenets to keep the set up to date:

The family of beasts to date, 5 down 5 to go: