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Two little birds...

Three wonderful Xmas 🎅 Prize Draw treats from @PansPurse, with perfect timing too - many thanks!! 😊 
Wishing all TSF members a wonderful and joyous Christmas! 🎁 ⭐ 🎄
 

Welcome to the forum, and +1 for the aptly chosen nic (Tron). 😄 

Three wonderful Xmas 🎅 Prize Draw treats from @PansPurse, with perfect timing too - many thanks!! 😊 
Wishing all TSF members a wonderful and joyous Christmas! 🎁 ⭐ 🎄
 

Three wonderful Xmas 🎅 Prize Draw treats from @PansPurse, with perfect timing too - many thanks!! 😊 
Wishing all TSF members a wonderful and joyous Christmas! 🎁 ⭐ 🎄
 

This lovely 2011 sovereign arrived in the post today just in time for Christmas. 
Merry Christmas to you all.
 

Wow, I could not have timed that better 😃🎅

Three wonderful Xmas 🎅 Prize Draw treats from @PansPurse, with perfect timing too - many thanks!! 😊 
Wishing all TSF members a wonderful and joyous Christmas! 🎁 ⭐ 🎄
 

Three wonderful Xmas 🎅 Prize Draw treats from @PansPurse, with perfect timing too - many thanks!! 😊 
Wishing all TSF members a wonderful and joyous Christmas! 🎁 ⭐ 🎄
 

Three wonderful Xmas 🎅 Prize Draw treats from @PansPurse, with perfect timing too - many thanks!! 😊 
Wishing all TSF members a wonderful and joyous Christmas! 🎁 ⭐ 🎄
 

i got one bar and then i was asked to get a couple more. Nice.

More offering from Arshimo2012

 

DAY 22.
 
DRAW 1. 
WINNER IS 61 . @AlphaBeast
PRIZE FROM @Deputydog
 
DRAW 2. 
WINNER IS 82. @Silvergulag
PRIZE FROM. @MintageSeller
 
DRAW 3.
WINNER IS 7. @Tn21
PRIZE FROM @jultorsk
 
Thats all for today. Please PM eachother with postage imfo etc.

Thanks to @Cornishfarmer for my prize.  I've started collecting the Rwandan series and didn't have this one.  Also my first 2011 Britannia.  Nice surprise 🍺
 

Gold rush.
Thank you @Josh for the 2005 Half and thank you to  @mouldybread for the 2017 Sovereign.
The 2005 Set was a gamble, from a well known auction site- 67.98g of 22ct loveliness. 




 
 

Received this 2004 Proof Half Sovereign today which was still sealed 14 years on from being minted.  I promptly liberated it from its packaging.  I personally prefer the overall presentation of the Proof 2000 through to 2007 Sovereigns and half Sovereigns, than the later and preceding presentation. 




 

Greetings everyone,
my name is Sebastian, I am from Germany and I am a casual stacker...
I am in my mid 40s, an IT professional living in the middle of nowhere, with a wonderful fiancee living far far away.
I first got interested in gold and silver investing around 2011, when I had regained some buying power after a long phase of bad luck which had cost me my life savings. Before that, my investment horizon had not gone beyond Sparbücher (savings accounts) and Bausparverträge (guaranteed mortgage savings accounts), though I vaguely remember signing for Infineon shares back then.
After reviewing the standard investment offers of my bank I dove deeper into how to build a portfolio. Within the depths of the internet I came across a mixture of gold and silver investors, preppers, conspiracy theorists and alternate investors. I learned about the history of money, the modern post gold standard financial system and globalization, I read my way through a mixed library on system criticism and precious metal investing. I sorted all this through to fit my personal requirements and experiences and in the end decided to build the cornerstone of my portfolio out of gold. It would have been real estate, but my job takes me to different locations every couple of years.
I decided on Wiener Philharmoniker as my standard investment coin, but soon my natural playfullness took over and I found myself amidst a mix of silver Pandas, Lunars, and everything that was hot at the time that I could get my hand on. I also developed a liking towards older trade coins, 20 Mark Deutsches Kaiserreich and 20 Franken Schweizer Vreneli specifically. I do like to touch my gold, and the latter are especially suited for that.
Time flies and I liquidated most of my stack (a matter of mislead loyality and personal idiocy). I was able to rebuild around 2015, and am now ready to put a monthly stream of money towards precious metals again. What stayed with me are my trade coins, a stack part which I already reinforced. My favourite coin is the Vreneli (20 Franken) due to it's design (I am in love), it's size, affordability and easyness of trade. I am just deciding what products to split my precious metals investment sum on. I am having the feeling that the precious metal landscape has changed since 2011, that all the more special items have become very mainstream. But that may just be my personal perception.
I am viewing gold as the mainstay of the security part of my portfolio. As far as I see it, Gold was, is and will always be the classic store for wealth. I of course have silver, but I list that within the speculative part of my portfolio (tagged preserving and speculative, to be precise). I may invest into some platinum as another speculative metal, given the current prices. Other than that I am trying to keep my portfolio balanced, containing enough liquid assets and different risk level stocks (fonds) invested in different parts of the world.
So this is it about me, my past experiences, what I learned and what I am doing at the moment, where precious metals are concerned...
Thanks for your time
 

I received news I’ve got a few 70s on way back from NGC!

Early Xmas present, ordered as part of a European group order. Thanks for organising @BackyardBullion
The 10oz Queen's Beasts really are something! 

2017 struck on the day 200 year anniversary plain edge sovereign DPL70 with box, coa and error certificate (says proof instead of bu) rolled in today. Got two 70s now, one at retail and one at £200 under the current going rate judging by ebay completed data. The plain edge is a really nice coin.
 
Added that to 4 snowmen proof coins that arrived, 2 here and 2 in The UK.
 

A 2002 half sovereign
 
 

Very nice - there is some really good looking silver coming from the BYB silver pouring bench.
i saw a little piece BYB was fondling in the video where he visited the Edinburgh assay office - i call it the Illuminati bar. Here we see the bar against the Edinburgh landscape and then safe after its travels.
 



 
It is alleged this is a YouTube play button pocket piece - looks like an Illuminati bar to me.
Here we clearly see BYB throws a '666' as a sign of deference to the Illuminati bar before he flies off to Edinburgh -

A puzzle board and silver elemental cube from @BackyardBullion.  The puzzle board looks great and is extremely functional...the tiles slide very easily and smoothly.  Also the elemental cube is very well done.  I wasn't sure how a poured, hand made version of these cubes would turn out, but he did an awesome job!
 

Sorry about the pictures. 
But my BYB 10.12oz ripple bar arrived today and I cannot wait until tomorrow when the sun is shining to show this beautiful piece of art,
also stamped VR46 after my hero Valentino Rossi Moto GP legend. 
Muchas gracias a todo la familia de BYB. 

My little stash from the group order. Thanks @BackyardBullion arrived safely and well packaged.