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Nabbed this from ebay. Fell in love with it as soon as I saw it in one of the 'ugliest coin' threads ☺️

Snap! Well nearly.
I ordered two of the 2009 Proof Australia Sovereigns from Chards when on offer, the email order confirmation and the invoice that came with them cite the 2009, but I received 2x 2010’s!
I could start to collect these little beauties... lovely overall package. 

Its the "Proof Like Version" and I must say its absolutely stunning in its detail. I managed to get 3 of them so I'm putting 2 up for sale at my cost tomorrow morning , fist come first served basis.

I finally got around to picking up the delivery from BYB. All 3 classic pm's represented. The weight and size of the 100g bars kind of surprised me (in a positive sense)
I like the gold philharmoniker. The edge of the coin also surprised me, because of the pattern which has small smooth parts. Gives a nice effect when the light plays on it.

I finally got around to picking up the delivery from BYB. All 3 classic pm's represented. The weight and size of the 100g bars kind of surprised me (in a positive sense)
I like the gold philharmoniker. The edge of the coin also surprised me, because of the pattern which has small smooth parts. Gives a nice effect when the light plays on it.

I finally got around to picking up the delivery from BYB. All 3 classic pm's represented. The weight and size of the 100g bars kind of surprised me (in a positive sense)
I like the gold philharmoniker. The edge of the coin also surprised me, because of the pattern which has small smooth parts. Gives a nice effect when the light plays on it.

I finally got around to picking up the delivery from BYB. All 3 classic pm's represented. The weight and size of the 100g bars kind of surprised me (in a positive sense)
I like the gold philharmoniker. The edge of the coin also surprised me, because of the pattern which has small smooth parts. Gives a nice effect when the light plays on it.

I finally got around to picking up the delivery from BYB. All 3 classic pm's represented. The weight and size of the 100g bars kind of surprised me (in a positive sense)
I like the gold philharmoniker. The edge of the coin also surprised me, because of the pattern which has small smooth parts. Gives a nice effect when the light plays on it.

I finally got around to picking up the delivery from BYB. All 3 classic pm's represented. The weight and size of the 100g bars kind of surprised me (in a positive sense)
I like the gold philharmoniker. The edge of the coin also surprised me, because of the pattern which has small smooth parts. Gives a nice effect when the light plays on it.

I finally got around to picking up the delivery from BYB. All 3 classic pm's represented. The weight and size of the 100g bars kind of surprised me (in a positive sense)
I like the gold philharmoniker. The edge of the coin also surprised me, because of the pattern which has small smooth parts. Gives a nice effect when the light plays on it.

I finally got around to picking up the delivery from BYB. All 3 classic pm's represented. The weight and size of the 100g bars kind of surprised me (in a positive sense)
I like the gold philharmoniker. The edge of the coin also surprised me, because of the pattern which has small smooth parts. Gives a nice effect when the light plays on it.

I finally got around to picking up the delivery from BYB. All 3 classic pm's represented. The weight and size of the 100g bars kind of surprised me (in a positive sense)
I like the gold philharmoniker. The edge of the coin also surprised me, because of the pattern which has small smooth parts. Gives a nice effect when the light plays on it.

I finally got around to picking up the delivery from BYB. All 3 classic pm's represented. The weight and size of the 100g bars kind of surprised me (in a positive sense)
I like the gold philharmoniker. The edge of the coin also surprised me, because of the pattern which has small smooth parts. Gives a nice effect when the light plays on it.

Pickup from the post office today - courtesy of @SilverStan


And not from silver stan (and i wont bother taking a photo) - got 100 more vacuum bags but much closer to slab size to avoid me messing around cutting to size  Now just need 100 slabs with coins to put in them.... 

Just received my gold proof half sovereigns. Now all packed up again on their way to Numistacker for grading.

It's a good day today....! My order from GS.be finally arrived! Some content: 
- Silver Krugerrand 2018 B
- Full Nordic silver series 
- Rwanda Year of the Pig proof 
- Gold Libertad 2018 (1/20 + 1/10 + 1/4 OZ) 
- ...

About half a kilo of @BackyardBullion's finest:

Official picture and a quick pic. Arrived today.
 

This weekend I all of a sudden remembered that I had some silver in possession long before I started stacking. It doesn't properly fit in any other categories I think so I put it in this topic. I think it's special enough to share with you all.
It is the first ever silver postage stamp worldwide. There are enough comparable items nowadays, but this was an actual stamp you could use. (could be used for registered mail) It was the last Dutch guilders only stamp (that's why they wanted to make something special). The stamps after this were both in euros and guilders. The value is NLG 12.75 which coverts to 5.70 euros. Nowadays you can find it for less online (from about 5 euros), so wouldn't have been a good investment (like all the other stamps I have...).
Minted at the Royal Dutch Mint. 999 silver 21 x 25 x 0,1 mm mintage 1 million (not rare at all...) Fun exercise: it's 52.5 mm3 or 0.0525 cm3. With the specific weight of 10.5 grams per cm3 that should be 0.55125 grams. So at the current silve price a value of 23.6 eurocents. Put against the original value of 5.70 euros that's a premium of 2,320%.  The edges are tarnished, probably partly due to me handling it with my fingers (forgive me, I was young). However, what I've seen even the ones in sealed packaging have tarnished on the edges by now.

I haven't really bought anything since splashing out on the Star Wars statuettes back in April but after a few days of contemplation I decided to pickup the Cola coins in 1oz silver and 12g gold.  They don't look as good as the 6g coloured one but they're still nice.  The premium is a bit of a killer on them though
 

This weekend I all of a sudden remembered that I had some silver in possession long before I started stacking. It doesn't properly fit in any other categories I think so I put it in this topic. I think it's special enough to share with you all.
It is the first ever silver postage stamp worldwide. There are enough comparable items nowadays, but this was an actual stamp you could use. (could be used for registered mail) It was the last Dutch guilders only stamp (that's why they wanted to make something special). The stamps after this were both in euros and guilders. The value is NLG 12.75 which coverts to 5.70 euros. Nowadays you can find it for less online (from about 5 euros), so wouldn't have been a good investment (like all the other stamps I have...).
Minted at the Royal Dutch Mint. 999 silver 21 x 25 x 0,1 mm mintage 1 million (not rare at all...) Fun exercise: it's 52.5 mm3 or 0.0525 cm3. With the specific weight of 10.5 grams per cm3 that should be 0.55125 grams. So at the current silve price a value of 23.6 eurocents. Put against the original value of 5.70 euros that's a premium of 2,320%.  The edges are tarnished, probably partly due to me handling it with my fingers (forgive me, I was young). However, what I've seen even the ones in sealed packaging have tarnished on the edges by now.

This weekend I all of a sudden remembered that I had some silver in possession long before I started stacking. It doesn't properly fit in any other categories I think so I put it in this topic. I think it's special enough to share with you all.
It is the first ever silver postage stamp worldwide. There are enough comparable items nowadays, but this was an actual stamp you could use. (could be used for registered mail) It was the last Dutch guilders only stamp (that's why they wanted to make something special). The stamps after this were both in euros and guilders. The value is NLG 12.75 which coverts to 5.70 euros. Nowadays you can find it for less online (from about 5 euros), so wouldn't have been a good investment (like all the other stamps I have...).
Minted at the Royal Dutch Mint. 999 silver 21 x 25 x 0,1 mm mintage 1 million (not rare at all...) Fun exercise: it's 52.5 mm3 or 0.0525 cm3. With the specific weight of 10.5 grams per cm3 that should be 0.55125 grams. So at the current silve price a value of 23.6 eurocents. Put against the original value of 5.70 euros that's a premium of 2,320%.  The edges are tarnished, probably partly due to me handling it with my fingers (forgive me, I was young). However, what I've seen even the ones in sealed packaging have tarnished on the edges by now.

This weekend I all of a sudden remembered that I had some silver in possession long before I started stacking. It doesn't properly fit in any other categories I think so I put it in this topic. I think it's special enough to share with you all.
It is the first ever silver postage stamp worldwide. There are enough comparable items nowadays, but this was an actual stamp you could use. (could be used for registered mail) It was the last Dutch guilders only stamp (that's why they wanted to make something special). The stamps after this were both in euros and guilders. The value is NLG 12.75 which coverts to 5.70 euros. Nowadays you can find it for less online (from about 5 euros), so wouldn't have been a good investment (like all the other stamps I have...).
Minted at the Royal Dutch Mint. 999 silver 21 x 25 x 0,1 mm mintage 1 million (not rare at all...) Fun exercise: it's 52.5 mm3 or 0.0525 cm3. With the specific weight of 10.5 grams per cm3 that should be 0.55125 grams. So at the current silve price a value of 23.6 eurocents. Put against the original value of 5.70 euros that's a premium of 2,320%.  The edges are tarnished, probably partly due to me handling it with my fingers (forgive me, I was young). However, what I've seen even the ones in sealed packaging have tarnished on the edges by now.

This weekend I all of a sudden remembered that I had some silver in possession long before I started stacking. It doesn't properly fit in any other categories I think so I put it in this topic. I think it's special enough to share with you all.
It is the first ever silver postage stamp worldwide. There are enough comparable items nowadays, but this was an actual stamp you could use. (could be used for registered mail) It was the last Dutch guilders only stamp (that's why they wanted to make something special). The stamps after this were both in euros and guilders. The value is NLG 12.75 which coverts to 5.70 euros. Nowadays you can find it for less online (from about 5 euros), so wouldn't have been a good investment (like all the other stamps I have...).
Minted at the Royal Dutch Mint. 999 silver 21 x 25 x 0,1 mm mintage 1 million (not rare at all...) Fun exercise: it's 52.5 mm3 or 0.0525 cm3. With the specific weight of 10.5 grams per cm3 that should be 0.55125 grams. So at the current silve price a value of 23.6 eurocents. Put against the original value of 5.70 euros that's a premium of 2,320%.  The edges are tarnished, probably partly due to me handling it with my fingers (forgive me, I was young). However, what I've seen even the ones in sealed packaging have tarnished on the edges by now.