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Couple of cool bars arrived today

Today I received this beautiful 1894 $20 from Chards.

1911 20 French Francs - Marianne Rooster bought from @ChardsCoinandBullionDealer.



 
 

on the top we see 11 krugerrand goldcoins
followed from some other gold, silver and platinum coins and medaillons 🧐

 

Ok so these are mainly generic royal mint issues so nothing rare but I start buying a few coins as I’ve always been interested in them since being young. It’s only recently I moved onto the silver bars and bigger coins.
sorry for the bad lighting but I wanted to get some photos together quickly as they are going to storage.
Split don’t into Sports | Children’s Book / Characters | Stacking | Other

 

 

A surprising little mail call yesterday, I expected nothing but a coin shaped piece of junk simply because of the detail the coin has, turns out to be a genuine 1874 Carson City trade dollar, unfortunately it brooched but look at that detail!

My biggest silver purchase in a long time.🙂
5 Italian 500 Lire coins 20 Swiss 5 Franc coins 1  1943 Dutch East Indies 2.5 Gulden minted in Denver USA and a 1915 MS62 2 Kronen from Liechtenstein.

Some new silvers for the folder
ran out of small flips hence why some are unflipped.
First Brazilian, Latvian, Peruvian and Curacao(ian?!) Coins to date! Folder is getting quite heavy.
Some nice old US small ones.
Will be listing plenty of cheap world silvers tonight so stay tuned!

A 1925 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle bought as bullion at spot from @ST1986 . This stunning coin had been on my wishlist since I bought the 10oz gilded silver replica 1933 coaster pictured beneath the real thing.

A slight different Thaler for the collection. @ilovesilverireallydo tells me it is was loyalty presentation packs that you get as a free gift from magazine shopping for regular buyers.
 

I got this tiny beauty in an auction today for only £1.25 exc p+p, its a Dutch 10 Cents, 1944 dated, made of 64% silver, these coins were made for the Dutch colonies during WW2 by the USA in various mints, the mint that made this one, the Philidephia Mint (a P and Acorn privvy) was by far the most numerous with a huge 120 million being minted in that year.
As always pictures never seem to do my coins justice, sorry for the bits of pollen on my workbench, we have a forest at the bottom of the garden and its forever shedding into workshop.


 
Compared to a modern 5 pence, now officially my smallest coin in the stack
 

Have no clue about bars and collectors of bars but here is the info I found on internet 
The company has ceased to exist in 1996; bought by Cookson. Before that it was a quite important precious metal ( and also non precious ) company in France. At some point of history it even had a factory in Egypt .

The shop is registered in the street in Paris with all the serious dealers. I would trust him but I agree that the header looks pretty bad with the mistakes !

Work calls on vacation days, a beginning cold, taking a wrong train, train delays in both directions, a credit card threatening not to work - many could be the tales to tell of today's journey, but that is not for here and not for now...

I am living in the middle of the northern part of Germany in general and in the middle of nowhere specifically. The town I'm living in has a couple of supermarkets, but nothing that would yield more than Euro currency coins when looking for anything connected to our hobby. To get my fix, I either have to buy online, which I do not like, or leave to go on journeys to places where I can buy anonymously and then vanish. To the west the Ruhrgebiet beckons, an urban sprawl that can be circled by train easily and houses a multitude of pawn shops, jewelers, coin and bullion dealers. To the east lies my home city where I go regularly, even though my fiancee is living in a distant land at the moment. Here I can visit a branch office of one of the major precious metal dealers. Even farther to the east lies a town that houses a brick and mortar presence of a large online dealer as well as of one of the best pawn shop chains around.
Going 'home' for my birthday made the decision easy, and I made a shopping list that included a tube of silver Britannia coins (I blame you, my british friends). As the large precious metal dealer does charge full VAT on EU silver bullion coins, and the online dealer does not, a plan was made to go to the town farther east and look for some LMU trade coins while I was there as well. I also wanted to get a first hand impression of Umicore silver bars, which are not available in my home city, as the large precious metal dealer only sells his own bars. The voyage would include arriving at the town of destination then go to the place that has a convenient triangle of an ATM of my bank (an online bank whose ATMs are few), the online dealer's branch office and the pawn shop within walking distance. Plan b in the case of not finding anything that interests me, would be to spend money at the precious metal dealer's branch office upon returning home.
Destiny struck in a variety of ways and I found myself back at the central railway station of my home city, with a huge headache, much too late into the day, and no trains leaving to where I wanted to go. This was when I decided to stuff it and just see if there was something nice to be had at my plan b. After raiding a nearby ATM I arrived. We are looking at the impersonal branch office of Degussa (I may elaborate later) from the other side of the street, and at the polished rooms on the inside:


The weak hope of Degussa finally having managed to reimport Britannias from outside the EU, thus being able to use a loophole and only needing to charge the lower VAT of 7% failed, so I asked to see their LMU 20 francs. I was presented a mid size compartment box to discuss about and to choose from. Initially I asked for the french Rooster (Marianne here) or the Angel and would have settled for these two, or any of these and an older swiss Helvetia (I have a lot of newer Vrenelis already). Seeing that Belgium and Italy would be available however and a certain lack of cheap Britannias made me reconsider my silver spendings and I switched to the idea of getting one of each of the first LMU countries, France, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland. I was a bit unprepared, so no idea if I made the right choices. I realized I will have to read a lot more about these coins. I took the only french Rooster, and the only swiss Helvetia, one of a multitude of belgian Leopolds and settled for an italian Umberto over an Emanuele II.
Here are the obverses:

and the reverses:

French Rooster 1910
Belgian Leopold 1877
Italian Umberto 1882
Swiss Helvetia 1890
The difference in hue is not just in the photo and shows the difference in copper versus silver content for alloying - I hope. These are basically bullion grade coins, I have not calculated the amount paid over spot so far. I just wanted to get the pictures out and will put down further thoughts once my medication kicked in, at some time this weekend...

A few favorites and our latest addition the judge

Yeah! Wife's instructions. Got to follow them as got nowhere to go at the moment...

You guys really are bug*ers.  
 
I have avoided reading this thread since it was created, and have just read it and *have* to have a significant number of these beautiful coins.  
 
Nice photos!
 
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Here are my LMU gold other than 20 francs
5 francs
1863 5  Napoleon III 
 
10 francs
1859 Napoleon III (without laurel)
1867 Napoleon III (with laurel)
1863 Italian 10 lire
1911 rooster
1946 Lichtenstein
 
40 francs
L' AN 12 Napoleon (pre- emperor)
 
I've just won this coin , but im not sure weather the seller could ship to my country due to the current situation.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Milan-obrenovich-IV-10-serbia-dinara-1882-v-vienna-/283821343177?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=IuQ69OYGFCRZYKWnouZTvWHptrs%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc
 
 
 
 

Here is my entire collection
 
(from the left top)  
1.1811 Napoleon 
2.1815 Louis XVIII   type 1
3.1818 Louis XVIII   type 2
4.1843 Louis Philip
5.1867 Napoleon III later type
6.1875 Belgium Leopold II
7.1880 Hungary  
8.1896 Switzerland  type 1
9.1898 Angel 
10. 1904 Tunisia
11. 1902 Rooster
12. 1925 Switzerland type 2
 
I  started to collect all kinds of 19~ early 20th century  european gold coins since July 2018 , and the LMU coins(20 francs and other denominations) are my favorite.

What a useful summary. Interesting that the Papal States immediately debased silver coinage and that exploitative trading was such a big issue! 
I wonder how long the Euro will last as it is debased by QE (I noticed that they have restarted it on 1st November). I believe that its something like $3trillion currently

https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/The-Latin-Monetary-Union
 
interesting bit of reading may be worth a quick read
does that mean a coin we collect from papal state is not 100% correct on its gold /silver content 🤔

In the process of evaluating my Silver stack and took some photos to share

@daca some of the antique pieces photos (10 oz Monarch Precious Metals Dragon vs Viking Ultra High Relief Silver Round)

Another collectibles order having come in. One I had to wait over a month for, it took a while before my LCS had the silver proof 2020 Britannias in.
So yeah, one of the 3 coins is a silver proof 2020 Britannia. The other 2 being a silver 2019 Columbia Allegories, and a (ridiculously small 😂) gold 1915 Austrian 1 ducat, because I thought it was cool to have something dated back to the Austrian-Hungarian empire. 🤷‍♂️
 

A coin I never thought I would see, let alone own.! After a rather unpleasant bidding war in the early hours, an erroneous VAT bill from our friends at Border Force (claim for a refund already submitted), it has finally arrived from the good old US of A 🇺🇸!
A 1961 Peruvian Una Libra (Sovereign of South America) - why so rare?.      MINTAGE - 402



Its tricky to take good pictures today (really sunny), so these pics were taken putting the coin under water to stop the glare...a first attempt..comments welcomed on another thread maybe!
 
 

No friend i will still be buying physical - it doesn't matter to me what the money changers are doing.