Gildeon

I'm in love, the wife knows it and cant compete! The premium was offputting but i wanted it and knew i would regret it if i didnt go for it!

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)

Last coin for me and first in the Series I has arrived. Happy to have my first Lunar series completed, soon the Pig will close the Lunar II as well.
 

Last coin for me and first in the Series I has arrived. Happy to have my first Lunar series completed, soon the Pig will close the Lunar II as well.
 

Last coin for me and first in the Series I has arrived. Happy to have my first Lunar series completed, soon the Pig will close the Lunar II as well.
 

Last coin for me and first in the Series I has arrived. Happy to have my first Lunar series completed, soon the Pig will close the Lunar II as well.
 

Last coin for me and first in the Series I has arrived. Happy to have my first Lunar series completed, soon the Pig will close the Lunar II as well.
 

Last coin for me and first in the Series I has arrived. Happy to have my first Lunar series completed, soon the Pig will close the Lunar II as well.
 

Last coin for me and first in the Series I has arrived. Happy to have my first Lunar series completed, soon the Pig will close the Lunar II as well.
 

Last coin for me and first in the Series I has arrived. Happy to have my first Lunar series completed, soon the Pig will close the Lunar II as well.
 

Last coin for me and first in the Series I has arrived. Happy to have my first Lunar series completed, soon the Pig will close the Lunar II as well.
 

Last coin for me and first in the Series I has arrived. Happy to have my first Lunar series completed, soon the Pig will close the Lunar II as well.
 

Last coin for me and first in the Series I has arrived. Happy to have my first Lunar series completed, soon the Pig will close the Lunar II as well.
 

Today in the post came a 1939 Canadian silver dollar along with the Route 66 presentation box from @Alun. I'm well impressed with the box, looks great 

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.

I bought on Ebay my first proof coins. The 3 coin Lunar 2 mouse set. It has to come from Australia so i have to be patient

I did a nice unboxing this weekend with a (for my standards) huge amount of silver and gold.
Gold sovereign, random year. I ended up with a nice 1902 one. Haven't read a lot about sovereigns, but I think this is a nice year to have 5 gilded silver coins: 2018 britannia, 2018 maple leaf, 2018 walking liberty, 2016 & 2017 philharmoniker 2018 Proof rectangular dragon: really cool presentation box 2018 10 oz Valiant 2019 Queens beasts falcon (also dragon and lion so I have 2 of each) 2018 Tokelau Equilibrium: looks better than expected after seeing the video review posted on here a while ago. 2018 St. Helena Spade of Guinea 2017 & 2018 Cayman Marlin: I like that they switched the coins, so with 2 of each you get to see both sides with the package intact. 2014 & 2015 Burundi proof History of Aviation: Messerschmitt & Kawasaki, nice quality boxes

When I started buying PMs started my collection with 20x 1oz Silver Marvel coins. With release new Dead Pool marvel character decided I would double the stack I have in the Marvel series and add 10 x Dead Pool coins to the stack. No shortages Marvel characters and I can easily have several hundred oz silver in this series over the next 3+ years. I want to see the Hulk next he would look awesome.

Start of a new side project, a date run of Proof Half Sovereigns commencing 2000 onwards.  I already have Graded 1989, 2002, 2005, 2012 & 2017 so these three a nice addition. Longer term plan to collect 1980 onward and to grade the lot. 




 

That reminds me of a delivery by Yodel we had at work this week.  It was a box of printer paper and the outside box was completely torn open at one end - literally the whole end of the box was flapping loose and you could see the contents.  I could see the paper inside looked ok on that edge (and it was only printer paper!) but I still wrote a note on the PDA when I signed that said "box damaged" just in case.  The Yodel driver took great offence to this and said "Its not damaged, its just open slightly"   That is just one example why we don't use Yodel to deliver anything!

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

Thanks to @sovereignsteve got the 2oz proof lunar dog and pig to complete my 2oz proof collection. Very nice coins.

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. 😀
 

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. 😀
 

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. 😀