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Just a little bit of table candy delivered 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.

A fantastic surprise this morning courtesy of the lovely @Numistacker
PF70, great outcome for my first time grading

Received this today from Bullionbypost. very impressive coin. I must commend them on their swift delivery. 

I picked these up from Apmex with my eBay bucks (plus a lot of cash).
 

That apmex is a great site, low shipping within US. I was born in the wrong country.... 
 
 

For some strange reason high relief kangaroos  keep arriving at my house! ?