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Well I finally got hold of this beauty  and I didn't get gang raped getting it either.....
 Well on my way to getting the full house now 

2002 proof sov PCGS PF69 
coin in perfect condition ! 

Finally got some time and a weather day to catch up on a few new receipts. 
Firstly, Thanks to @GrahamDiamond for this 2017 £5 Queen’s Beasts Lion of England BU won from his most recent GAW!! Awesome addition to my keepers!

Also, picked up my smallest gold coin to date from @JBstacker3181...a little beauty 1851 $1 Gold Liberty Head! 

And also received a 2019 Gold Sovereign BU.

Lastly, to round it out, received six 2016 1 oz Silver Britannias with Monkey privy...order as lucky dip 1 oz Silver Britannias!

Look what I picked up today, I am in love.
@Marc I am super happy with this set, well worth the wait, thank you very much.

Arrived Safe and Sound from 999AG.

Cheers @MickD and thank you to @Maundy for these lovely little Quarters. Wonderful detail. 


 
 

Waiting for a 1918i Sovereign is like waiting for a bus- two arriving at the same time.  Thanks to both @Elements & @jultorsk for nudging me in the right direction. The PCGS MS64 is clearly the winner here, bought from Jon Blyth  via eBay auction but the raw one is a very nice looking Uncirculated Sovereign. 






 
 

Today's pick-up 2019 gold sovereign in fancy capsule!

Thanks to @augur for these PUDDY CATZ! 
They make a cracking set with the latest 2018 KITTY! (sold out BTW) 😊😍
Quite cool that one pair are obverse and reverse on the same backing  - so you can see both sides

Some bedtime reading arrived today.

A 1oz gold coin from scottsdale. 
A new type of gold coin combined with bitcoin. 
Mintage of 100. 
https://www.lpm.hk/2018-1-oz-republic-of-chad-four-guardians-blue-dragon-999-gold-hybrid-coin-bu.html

Thanks to @augur for this treat today.

Two More For The Stack Coinsters !!!!!!!!

Got my Unicorn back from @Numistackerand got the bull next to go. Thought id show the rest to. Slowly getting there. 

280 is hammer though add on premium whatever that is 20% and you get 330. And it was over a year ago, Indians on the rise. Prob about right for a ms63 that a lcgs equates to. Would it get ms63 at pcgs though? Are lcgs as strict? Would you want to buy that and pay another £50 cost to cross grade to pcgs risking even a possible ms62 total expense over near enough 400 anyway? Or just buy the 400 coin now you know then what you’re getting. Each to their own

Cryptozoology series from Intaglio Mint

Picked up some gold this week too... 1982 1/4oz MS69, 1984 1/4oz,  1985 1/4oz, 1986 1/4oz, 1986 1/20oz, 1987 1/4oz.  

Picked up some silver this week, 10oz QB Lion, 5 1oz Rwanda Lunars, 2 Perth bars. 

It's supposed to be anonymous but you'll see most of this forum there too

Received from @MickD yesterday.......Thanks Mick

There are the last two auction lots that arrived on Friday. 
The 2016 £5 proof for the 90th birthday of QE2. According to the COA the maximum mintage was 1,250 coins.
The 1997 silver proof Britania four coun set, 1oz, 1/2 oz, 1/4oz & 1/10oz. Am not really a Britannia collector but could not resist this set, wonderful design. 

On Friday received a few lots I purchased at auction plus an eBay purchase. 
The ebay purchase was a 2008 British sovereign. I already have one in for grading at PCGS so will see how that turns out before deciding what to do with the new coin. 
Next is a 1930 Melbourne sovereign. Melbourne was a branch mint up to 1931 so this is the 2nd last year of production. Mintage for this circulation coin was about 77,000, 
Also bought the modern Perth interpretation of the sovereign, this one the 2013 proof. 

Thanks to @kneehow2018 for another 1Kg 2017 Libertad and to make it twice as nice, a lucky 1kg find from Atkinsons. 

Never say no when I see a little JM silver bar....and this is my first Imperial Russian gold - a 5 rubles from 1898. LCS pickups in San Francisco. Nice piece of history, as many of these were melted down in the Bolshevik era and beyond.  Small but nice...😊

Thanks to @Pritchard for these!