SILVERFINGER

Gorgeous bar mate and not one I am familiar with, are they still being made ?

Don't hold your breath mate, I am still waiting for info on something from long before all this covid started.

This arrived today among a load of Australian silver which has now found a new home straight away, its now my rarest silver coin (unless Krause is right about my 1944 Egyptian 2 Piastries), a New Zealand 1940 dated 1/2 crown, made from .500 silver.
This coin was minted to commemorate the centenary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 in which the native chiefs gave up their sovereignty of New Zealand to the British Crown, the New Zealand Government authorised the issue of a half-crown of special design and they were made by the Royal Mint in Wales, only made in 1940 as a circulating commemorative coin just 100,800 were produced, but despite this they are a bargain buy compared to the far more common standard NZ 1/2 crown, which was made in far greater numbers and over a number of years, if anyone knows why please let me know.


 

I hope he isnt going to be disappointed with his Maple bullion after he sent you that beauty 

Thats a common problem with us men I am afraid mate 

Yeah they could of put his picture on the coins too.

I paid £125 for the lot, mates rates , yes I could get them cheaper from here but the recipents are all people I see on a weekly basis, so no faffing around with posting or the costs/stress involved, and at the end of the day its their money and as long as I get them cheaper than whats being advertised on the main dealers websites they are happy, only one of them is a stacker/collector and not heavily into it at the moment.
Yeah the grips do resemble the TT33 pistol a bit, no idea whether they copied or not, the TT33 was a mix of other makers guns, (Browning 1903 being the main one), but firing a far more powerful round.

Today I received a small group order for members of the family and some friends, none of it for me lol, but I am getting close to getting something big now.
I really like the design on the Aztec round, even magnified there is so much detail on it.
Here is the coins guarded by one of the rarest guns in my collection a Beretta Model 1922,  43,000 of these guns were manufactured (small amount in military numbers) and only 200 of those were marked to the R(anchor symbol)M or Regia Marina (royal navy), Beretta despite making guns for 100's of years were quite late on the semi automatic pistol front and were releasing new models almost every year, the hotpotch of different colours and finishes is all correct for this model gun, bronze coloured slide, dark blued frame and barrel and stamped steel grips (commercial ones had wooden grips).
Sadly the few of these guns that have survived have little of their original finish remaining making this one even more rare.

Does it have chocolate inside, it would be best of both worlds then ?

Yeah I got a few for my mates ordered, I hope they bring out another series, they could go on for ages with all the Marvel characters.

Love the coin with the three sovereigns on the back what is it ?

Blimey you dont get many of those to the pound on that first coin, did they have silicon implants in Egyptian times 

The only Martin Platt I know is this one 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Platt

I think that is an amazing looking coin, the leopard print behind queenie looks fantastic.

Blame the painkillers, its them talking.

Mongrel 

Your biased though ya fluffy wombat 

Most privy marks to me are just a reason to charge more for something standard, this one is well worth any premium in my opinion, its lovely.

The ones in the second picture are far nicer 

This is some of a group order I did for family and friends, as always a superb service from @SilverTrader  
A pair of Homers


 
 
A pair of vaginas the wife said to which 'what yours'  didn't go down that well lol
 


 
And a Lion King and Moon landing coin
 

Love the new design of the 2020 Kook, I personally think its their best yet.

Silvertrader is a stud

Geez I aint finished this one yet, I reckon by the end I will be glad to finish it.

Ahh I see all those are silver that you have then, I didn't realise, I totally understand matey 

I don't happen to have the ones you need on my coin topic do I ?, though yours above look in mint condition they are superb.