Kookaburracollector

The  jigsaw 🧩 is so nearly complete...just posted this on ‘Today I Received’..but that doesn’t tell the whole story,

Just completed a date run of these 20 Francs coins...but the collection is not complete...
I have both 1879’s (Anchor and Barred Anchor) but I am missing an 1896 ‘Torch’ engravers mark (not axe).
If anyone sees one for sale or has one to sell let me know ! (Already aware of one at Gadoury)

An 1894 20 French Francs, not particularly rare but the last piece in a big jigsaw!

Added to a slabbed 1888..

It completes a date run😃😃😃...18 Months to complete!

Note. The Paris mint did not mint these coins every year...
 

An 1894 20 French Francs, not particularly rare but the last piece in a big jigsaw!

Added to a slabbed 1888..

It completes a date run😃😃😃...18 Months to complete!

Note. The Paris mint did not mint these coins every year...
 

An 1894 20 French Francs, not particularly rare but the last piece in a big jigsaw!

Added to a slabbed 1888..

It completes a date run😃😃😃...18 Months to complete!

Note. The Paris mint did not mint these coins every year...
 

An 1894 20 French Francs, not particularly rare but the last piece in a big jigsaw!

Added to a slabbed 1888..

It completes a date run😃😃😃...18 Months to complete!

Note. The Paris mint did not mint these coins every year...
 

If you're going to get into slabbed coins, buy in bulk!
 

Couple of oz's, had the monkey for about 2 weeks now courtesy of @Pete. 😁 the lunar's are for the youngest 2's boxes for their birth years.

Some stunning pieces from @MickD this week. Truly great guy to deal with.
Many thanks 

Received my group order today which prompted me to share my purchases from this month.
2014 Kook courtesy of a trade with @SilverLoaf
1996 Kook from @arshimo2012
1/4 oz White Lion of Mortimer from Atkinsons
The rest comes from the group order from the EU Mint and @BackyardBullion
 

One more Half crown to go, and first 100g bar.

Two lovely little 1/10s courtesy of the wonderful @vicamy. Also expecting a certain little piggy today as well as a couple more 1/10s but they have gone to my office and I am working remotely today so will collect tomorrow. Cheers to @vicamy for being a superstar and meeting me in London to exchange. Top bloke.

Arrived today.  A 1984 1 oz gold Maple Leaf.  It's a bit scuffed, but for the price, it was a bargain.

A few pick ups this week on the 20 Francs front...and at last I have had delivered an 1879 Barred Anchor...the last one I bought ended up in West Africa never to be seen again!!
Nice to compare the two 1879’s now I have both.
Below is the standard Anchor...a bit like a round blob on the end if you ask me!

The one acquired today has two distinct bars on the end...

I have no idea if one is rarer than the other...if you do..please let me know.
Just a shame the 1887 I also obtained today has a hairline next to the ‘A’...otherwise it would have been my best condition Angel by far.


Also makes you aware of how buying online can lead to disappointment..A seller could easily use the 2nd photo and not the first!
 
 

I've only gone and done it! 
@TheGeneral posted a tantalising pic of a pile of ASE he picked up the other day and I commented that I really need to add some of these to my stack! That night @Wackattak924 listed some for sale.......fate......I'd say!
Generic for some but I think they're stunning. 

Thanks @arshimo2012 for this Britannia.  There are rarer Britannia issues but what a gorgeous coin.  
I’m always intrigued as to how the same coin can look very different depending on the light.  I should invest in a better camera. Couldn’t decide which photos to post, so apologies for posting several.
 

Very good condition by the look of the nice shin. That will go up in value
 

Four sets from 1967, Guyana, Hungary, South Africa and Germany.
 

@kneehow2018 thank you for these beauties 👍

I have received a house full of Kitty's or if preferred "PUDDY TAT's"
1 st Thanks goes to @BleyerBullion for these 2 gorgeous "lion's" - and extremely fast delivery! 👍
 

 
2nd Thanks goes to "Silver Trader"  - - - 
 

 
 

Lovely pickup! The 1887 probably depends on the graders’ mood: either MS or Details but if it isn’t deep rather MS
Interesting question: neither NGC nor PCGS make a distinction in the census; I suppose Gadoury does not make this distinction either.
In theory no 1879 coin should bear the mark of Albert Désiré Barre (died December 1878) but the one you show below of his brother Jean Auguste Barre. They clearly used the dies they prepared already in 1878 but with the low mintage of the 1879 vintage they probably didn’t make many with the new mark; at least that is what I would conclude from your difficulty to obtain one. 

A few pick ups this week on the 20 Francs front...and at last I have had delivered an 1879 Barred Anchor...the last one I bought ended up in West Africa never to be seen again!!
Nice to compare the two 1879’s now I have both.
Below is the standard Anchor...a bit like a round blob on the end if you ask me!

The one acquired today has two distinct bars on the end...

I have no idea if one is rarer than the other...if you do..please let me know.
Just a shame the 1887 I also obtained today has a hairline next to the ‘A’...otherwise it would have been my best condition Angel by far.


Also makes you aware of how buying online can lead to disappointment..A seller could easily use the 2nd photo and not the first!
 
 

A few French 20 Francs, the 1879 is a Barred Anchor.


 

A few French 20 Francs, the 1879 is a Barred Anchor.


 

Sovereign from Sovereign 
Tsf and BYB bar offcourse from Backyard Bullion.
Thank you to you both
 
 

Ummm..I could be wrong (most probable answer), but I thought the 20 Perpera from Montenegro was only minted in 1910, and there is no 1912.?.....I hear Ibruprofen helps fight Alzheimer’s @augur... shall I send you some ?
PS Don’t forget you owe me £20,000!😃💰