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Black Queens Beast Griffin. Done at home, planning on the whole series. 

Black Queens Beast Griffin. Done at home, planning on the whole series. 

Picked these up from the LCS near work.  Passed on a couple more that were starting to tone.  The dealer knows that I'm working on a U.S. Modern Commemorative set and sets them aside for me.

Passed on to me by a relation yesterday, family heirloom:

Black Queens Beast Griffin. Done at home, planning on the whole series. 

Today I received my Perth Mint 1oz gold dragon coin bar. Beautiful piece 

Another 2 X 1kg silver bars thanks to @arshimo2012
Bar collection is growing slowly but surely.  Have these stored in two plastic Tupperware boxes and they are getting bloody heavy to move about now (35.69kg) 
 
 

Black Queens Beast Griffin. Done at home, planning on the whole series. 

Black Queens Beast Griffin. Done at home, planning on the whole series. 

I had a very vivid dream last night where I received some coins, I will bore you guys with it
 I dreamt that I won a competition with a bullion dealer where I could go through their shop for 5 minutes and they had hidden Victoria shield sovereigns, and the ones I found I could have
I kept finding ones cut in half, which was a shame, but gold is gold
I was also reminded id left some purchases with them and opened up a box and it was a 2012 proof sovereign set, but it had a lot of finger prints 

what is it with this sudden upsurge in half sovereign collectors?
not so long ago I was saying that not many people collect them, certainly compared to fulls.
Perhaps I'll sell all mine, I was thinking my eyes are getting too old to fully appreciate them

Im trying to keep my Half Sov collection to London Mint else im going to get caught up in that hole aswel, for me I am going for high graded coins but the Mrs has managed to get pregnant somehow so maybe I will have to slow down

Extra Strong.

Obverse 1 and 2 combined with 1840's, 50's and 60's.
So one of each of the portraits and all the decades up to Jubilee except a 38/39.
Also looking out for 1891 and 1893 in EF/AUNC
Then random young heads of different years VF till the money's all gone. 
Well you did ask.

Funny you mention the dos pesos, I just got one from ebay to replace one I sold years back.  Great little coin, got it close to spot, plan to slab it to go with the other vintage Mexico gold coins I have:

Unrecorded 1862 - A for V in VICTORIA
Quite pleased to be the first to find this error date, being such a common year with so much variety I'm quite surprised nobody else has found one and hope that means it's even more rare
edit: confirmed as a new discovery, happy days!
 

 

I don’t care what anyone says, I think they look great in cases.

I collect the dos whenever I can get hold of them at decent premiums. 8 and counting lol

I collect the dos whenever I can get hold of them at decent premiums. 8 and counting lol

1959 
You can say a lot about mexicans but they sure know how to make awesome coins ? 

new fav

I thought they were pretty straight but now you've pointed it out!