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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! 

 

Just grabbed 3 X 10oz Gairsoppa bars, not the nice boxed edition of 4700 as above.
Coming from Canada so fingers crossed on the import duty
 
 

Made a five piece today PF70 

Nice little example...

Is this a rare date (29th March) error coin?

One of my favourite coins (that I don't own) is the 1804 5 shilling Bank of England token.  It has a legend on one side saying Five Shillings  :  Dollar.  Picture borrowed from Chards.
 

I have a similar but not identical set and paid £15 for it last year. Nice bit of history. 

Today I received this set. 
I don’t think it’s worth anything. 
Thank god im not old enough to remember them. 
Anyone got any information about them. Am I sitting on a super rare coin?
nah didn’t think so. 

Today I inboxed a complete sterling silver set from the Franklin Mint (1981) of the World’s Greatest Airline Emblems - (bought this as a gift for my brother - but I think I may keep it for myself-😉

Antique fair booty.

Some PAMPs added to collection. 
 

Today (well, yesterday) I received two boxes of silver building blocks. There are six 1oz blocks in each tobacco-tin style box. They are branded Monarch Precious Metals- I have seen them mentioned on this site before.
As a lifelong fan of Lego, I was slightly disappointed to discover that the silver blocks are a bit smaller than a classic 2x4 studs Lego brick, so they can't interlock with Lego, but they are fun to stack with anyway (they interlock with each other just fine) and I am sure I will never run out of ways to stack them: two 2x4 Lego bricks can be connected together in 24 ways; with three bricks there are 1060 ways; with six bricks there are 915,103,765 ways and the number of combinations of 12 bricks is (currently) incalculable.
Here are a few pictures of the bricks and their discovery by Benny's Space Squad (characters from the recent Lego Movie 2) and their attempt to make off with the bricks before being caught- a tense moment ensues before everyone decides to make friends and that everything is awesome...

Apologies for the photo quality but here is my collection so far (started two months ago). 
 

You have to wonder, was it an accident, or did they planet?

Courtesy of @Jodie.  Received this sealed but had to open it.

 

Vintage silver bars have outgrown the coin case so I sourced an old strong box for storage duties.
Good time for a photo update. 😉
 

I got this really nice set of sovereign scales today there in great condition for being nearly 200 years old

Bought this set about 20 yrs ago for £440.Found this old 5 coin box and the rest is history...

Not exactly PM but still really cool. These have been in my family for 50+ years and they have now been handed down to me. 1831 and 1851 large cents. There used to be more in this collection but over the years most have been dwindled away befor being passed down. Still happy to have them safe and sound!

Just received my 1905-A Lübeck 10 Mark Gold Proof in PCGS PR67 DCAM. Mintage of 247. Rare and stunning in this quality.
 
 
 

2oz of fine gold, my most expensive purchase yet, it’s stunning!