Serendipity

The Mexican 50 pesos gold coin is a much larger piece, of course, than my French 20 francs Marianne Rooster gold coin but you’ve got the same concept of liberty in the edge lettering and embodied in the beautiful figures, albeit winged in the case of the 50 pesos. Both were restruck at some time and both have a .900 fineness. 

Absolutely stunning 👍🏻 

You’ve touched upon the biggest bugbear which I have with silver is that it’s takes up too much space. Silver’s advantage over gold is that it’s inexpensive, but it’s disadvantage is that you need loads of it to break even with gold. I’ve not totally abandoned stacking silver but limited myself to tubes of semi-numismatic coins. I know that I’ll never reach that 50-50 silver-gold balance the experts speak about.