Provvidenza

I also received a special package from a sand casting expert in - MSagan75
I hope to be able to organise a group order from him at some point as he does Stella work in silver casting!
So, I got an awesome 1 oz monkey and a 2.2 gram Bowie knife!

My first bit of gold:

And the family portrait:

 
Apologies for terrible camera phone pics!

Finally tracked down a 1904 Half Sov to complete my Edward, London Mint date run.
It's the lowest mintage of the lot and has proved the most difficult to find at a reasonable price.
 

2 x 2018 sovereigns.
I started collecting 2017 sovereigns last year to fill a tube. I am now up to 22 so a few more and tube 1 done! 1 sovereign on its own can be quite boring (IMO) however once you hit 5 the density of the metal is apparent and it becomes a good way to save money without storage issues.
 

Today is a good day in the Backyard bullion household!

 

my proof Rwanda HMS Endeavour arrived today 

Just a little bit of silver...

I guess most coins like this are melted down, but I find it interesting nonetheless.
Engraving reads "mother to george 1856", no mounts or anything so not sure what the purpose of it would have been?
 

Heads or Tales 15 oz St. George and the Dragon statue, and a 1907 French 20 franc rooster gold coin

Second portrait added to my small young head collection.
1866 half sovereign.
 

Here is the rarest 1/4oz Krugerrand. Mintage... 60 
In 1980, the SA mint intoduced the first fractionnal coins and only 60 "VIP sets" were minted with three fractionnals proof  coins (1/10, 1/4 and 1/2 oz)
Not perfect, but I have been really lucky to get this one at a good price. It seems that there is just 2 or 3coins graded  with PGCS  and  NGC 

Gold Swiss1947 Vrenelli 20 Francs from Sharps Pixley
1946 Sixpence from Cambridgeshire Coins
1918 Threepence from Cambridgeshire Coins
 

Technically not precious metal - but I took delivery today of a very large pile of pennies!
Fun video (and much more!) coming this weekend to celebrate the 3000 subscriber milestone!

Ignoring BackyardBullion's advice these have been received and will soon be forwarded to me:
 

These are really helping to bring my average down

First Empress in my new collection: Colonial Silver Rupees. Have a few other rupees but this is my first Victoria. Shame it’s not great quality but still, lovely coins

Was a little premature on the post as just had another 35 delivered.
Also some jubilees, not as exciting but depends what's in there

What a lovely day to sort through a new batch of shields. These are in particularly nice grade so excited!

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) 
 
 

Various different items from Silver forum members and a few of Ebay

1959 20 Peso restrike back from NGC, this coin is a beauty! Very happy with MS67!

1915 British Sovereign in nice condition as well, if say MS61-62 range...

2018 1/4oz Queens Beast Unicorn MS69 from NGC. Will get listed tonight on ebay...

Pretty excited about these... 3 X 5oz "Pucks" from Swiss of America. Properly chunky vintage pieces. You can see how big they are compared to a 1oz monarch!