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Belated birthday presents from my dad

Belated birthday presents from my dad

Today I received some silver building blocks from forum member @OlliesSilverBars.
Recently I posted that I had bought some blocks made by Monarch, but was a bit disappointed that they don't interconnect with real Lego bricks. In another thread someone mentioned that Ollie's bricks do, so I bought some to test that out for myself.
As the pictures below show, the bricks arrived nicely packed in little black bags, and are the same size as standard 2x4 Lego bricks. They even have the tubes underneath that give Lego bricks their "clutch power" but on the silver bricks they aren't full size. But they do indeed stack with real Lego bricks so it's possible to make a structure mixing up the silver and actual Lego. Being hollow, the bricks are lighter than the solid 1oz Monarch blocks. 
Of course, the presence of such treasure inevitably draws attention from the criminal fraternity, although small-time criminals are likely to make blunders when in pursuit of their nefarious activities that are likely to bring them to the attention of the law. Better hope the king is feeling merciful...
 
 

5oz pamp silver bar 
to join the collection.. building up nicely 👍

King George V 1936 Maundy Money set (distributed by King Edward VIII).

As always, apologies for the poor photos. Also apologies for not getting everything out (ooh err) as I was pushed for time. 

I got these today, Nice little set of Ukraine silver banknotes, 9 in all. Can anyone tell me anything about them , they are 7.78g or 1/4 ounce. I have seen the equivalent 4 ounce ones but nothing on these.

I didn't receive this today, but got it a few weeks ago and never shared it here. 
Bucket list coin at a very good price, cannot say no!
So much for my self restraint!

My heaviest single item of gold to date. What a beauty! 

 

My heaviest single item of gold to date. What a beauty! 

 

Today in a charity shop I found some 50% silver coins so I bought a few. Two florins (two shilling coin) and two shillings.
I bought the book from the same shop. It's an anthology of Rudyard Kipling's poems. Three of the coins are from within Kipling's lifetime (1921- the fourth coin is from 1944- Kipling lived from 1865-1936). I wonder if he had coins like them jingling in his pocket when wrote the poem "Cold Iron":
GOLD is for the mistress - silver for the maid" -
Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade! " 
" Good! " said the Baron, sitting in his hall,
But Iron - Cold Iron - is master of them all."
 

My heaviest single item of gold to date. What a beauty! 

 

My heaviest single item of gold to date. What a beauty! 

 

My heaviest single item of gold to date. What a beauty! 

 

My heaviest single item of gold to date. What a beauty! 

 

My heaviest single item of gold to date. What a beauty! 

 

My heaviest single item of gold to date. What a beauty! 

 

My heaviest single item of gold to date. What a beauty! 

 

My heaviest single item of gold to date. What a beauty! 

 

My heaviest single item of gold to date. What a beauty! 

 

My heaviest single item of gold to date. What a beauty! 

 

My heaviest single item of gold to date. What a beauty! 

 

My heaviest single item of gold to date. What a beauty! 

 

My heaviest single item of gold to date. What a beauty! 

 

My heaviest single item of gold to date. What a beauty!