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Some new silver pieces for the stack -25 2018 Silver Britannias, 20 QB 2 oz 2018 Falcons, an Emu (not as bad as i thought...), another BU  2017 Swan (love that design) - all bought when silver price was very low 😊. A 2018 1/4 ounce gold Falcon shown here - and a better one that will go for NGC grading. 
Then at auction today - some old gold bullion, nothing special: a 1905 sovereign and an 1858 shiled half sovereign.  That 1858 has the characteristic dot just above the middle cross  (not that i have been looking at Marsh like a sovereign nerd......😉😉). 

Two additional 1 oz Gold Beasts landed into my collection (Lion & Dragon). Seller is not a member silver forum and the coins did not have any capsules but still in pristine condition. My lonely Red Dragon of Wales now has brother. Still on the hunt for 5x Lions / 4 Griffins and 8 Dragons in 1 oz Gold. In my experience the Dragon proven the hardest coin to backdate on the secondary market.

I have asked reputable European dealer to price match 10 x 1 oz Queens Beast Gold Coins for Falcon / Black Bull and Unicorn of Scotland with a not so well known/reputable dealer selling 1% over spot and they did. Reputable dealer then retracted the price match but still offered a significant discount so I pulled the trigger. The next photo of the mighty 1 oz Gold Queens Beasts will showcase 43 oz Gold in a couple of weeks time.

I’m in. 2 x 1oz Silver Maples

A huge amount of entries this year so far, thanks for everyone who has decided to participate, will be some fun draws. Someone should mention this topic in a youtube video and we will get even more entries and maybe even some more members to the forum  

Received a beautiful 1984 Proof Gold Sovereign, graded PR69 by PCGS...so close to completing my 1980s Proof date run, just needing a 1987.

@CadmiumGreen The coin arrived one hour ago. Thank you so much for helping me without any hesitation.
Very Very happy with this one!

 

@BackyardBullion - thank you!

I received this replacement 100oz Britannia bar from APMEX.  To their credit they replaced to bar without hesitation even though it's very close to spot bullion!  It did take a while as they sold out and needed to buy more.  I included a "before replacement" picture below, or you can look back in the thread history.
 

Four South African proof coins arrived today. They had been with PCGS for conservation and grading.
The 1952 £1 came out with a great PR67CAM with the 1/2 £1 a respectible PR67.
Then have both the 1962 2 Rand and 1 Rand at PR66.

Ten little beauties from @StackSellRepeat. 😍
 

just be happy what you own is rising in value. have a review of your stack and perhaps take the opportunity to sell some things that don't fit in with your strategy or just take some profit. hold the money back to buy on the next dip.

Had a slight change of heart regarding the prize sorry!
But I thought I'd stick with the forum theme and donate a http://backyardbullion.com/100g-silver-forum-bars-2018/ 100g silver bar
@Bullionbilly sorry for all this messing around I've been told to tag you on this edit of prize  thanks
George

Added 0 minutes later.. They vary wildly in price depending on the condition, size, colours, any restoration and country of origin/where sold, I have a very good friend in the fossil and mineral trade so I get stuff at trade price.
By an large a small Meg tooth 2" - 3" in superb condition, £50 - £80
medium Meg tooth,  3.5" -  4.5"  in superb condition, £90 - £160 
5" - 5.5"  in superb condition £170 - £500+
above 5.5" to maximum rare monster 6" - 7.5" £2500+
A superb colour and shape 2.5" meg, showing serrations, no restoration and minimal chips will be worth the same as a monster 5" tooth that has been broken in half.
Each tooth is unique, they are not actual teeth anymore, basically what happens is the tooth drops to the bottom of the sea bed, gets covers in sediment, after 100's of years the sediment around it goes hard, a few 1000 years later the tooth has all but decayed leaving a perfect cast and void, this void slowly fills over millions of years with minerals, what minerals determin the colours and perfect cast in stone is made, some are very delicate depending of the rock they were formed from.
If you ever want a tooth and need help give me a shout, I can usually get them far cheaper than what they go for online and on places like ebay.

I'm in with a 5 oz 9Fine  Mint silver bar.

2018 5 oz & 2 oz Libertad reverse prood set and a tube of 20 Provident Metals Prospector 1 oz silver rounds.  Sorry about the dusty pic of the Libertads.  Tried to wipe it down, but I didn't have an anti static cloth, and that dust was determined to stick around.

Received some more goodies this week! I think i've spent my birthday, Xmas and Eid money for the next few years!
2012 proof sovereign (PF70) from @Sparrowlegs4
2010 proof sovereign {daughter's birth year) {nice early number of CoA) (pointed in the right direction by @silversurf)
That 1/4 oz Gold Standard coin that i putting the blame of purchasing right at @MickB
After seeing the coin here (http://agaunews.com/scottsdale-mint-debut-a-new-series-of-silver-bullion-coins-rich-in-chinese-dynastic-culture/) The new Imperial Dragon 1 oz Cameroon 500 francs bought from Soeren @muenzdachs - super service & communication!
 

Nice little catch up order from GS.BE. No issues and very well packaged and 2 day delivery from being on hold...
Nice to have my sets /runs up-to-date and my lunars finished with the arrival of the bacon 🐷

Placed an order with GoldSilver.be yesterday order includes 10x Dead Pool coins cannot wait to receive these coins .

Another 4oz's added from @ElDoradoCoinsdotDe very reasonable postage and prices and top quality coins 👍

Just want say thank you for a successful transaction to @silversky today I received
2x 1oz Queens Beast Lions in these amazing superior Air-Tite brand capsules 


I have 4x Lions, 6 Griffins and 1 lonely Dragon. Already made arrangement with another seller who is not a Silver Forum member to sell their Lion and Dragon next week. Gold stack continues to grow with the mighty Queens Beasts.

Today I recieved, nothing for me, I ordered these for my daughter and a friend who are collecting the marvel series, I must say the detail on the Deadpool character is better in the flesh than on pictures I saw beforehand on the web.

 
Totally unrelated but I did pick up another large Carcharocles Megalodon tooth, a nice 5.5" one.
 

 

 

Thank you @mongo28 for sending me this wonderful coin all the way from the USA, it spent 6 days in UK Customs on its 9 day journey, but well worth the wait. 
And with thanks to @augur, @Roy& @Numistacker for all their help and advice on Libs and @KevinJam for signposting me to this coin listed for sale in the US & Canada sales threads in the first place. 
And a big thank you to @kneehow2018 for cementing my enthusiasm for the Libertad by selling me the 2017 1onza in the first instance. 
Sorry about the length and the rather gushing sentiments of this post, but not only am I absolutely thrilled with this coin, which concludes my 2017 Proof Libertad collection, but receiving it reminds me of just how lucky I am, and how valuable it is for all of us, to belong to this Forum. 



 
 

I'm putting up a silver 1 once reverse proof noble. Hope it's ok?
 

It's quite simple...offer a prize to be won, wait...sit back until December (maybe have a drink to get into the Xmas spirit!) and then everyone will win at least one prize (seeing as there are more prizes than participants!).
@Bullionbilly ran this smooth as anything last year and everyone was happy, and he's a very trusted member of the forum. I reckon it'll be buttery smooth again this year if we try not to complicate things too much for him!!!
 

Can you put me down for a silver coin, I don't know what exactly I will be donating yet. But if you could add me to the list. Just to confirm that I don't want to partake in any of the draws, just wish to donate a silver coin for a draw. Thanks.