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The 1 oz 2013 African Wildlife silver coin is sold and sale completed. 2 oz ultra high relief silver Kraken has been withdrawn. 
Hello today I have a 2 oz Silver Kraken round £80 & 1 oz 2013 African Wildlife silver coin £30. Both in protective capsules. 
Nice examples, please study the photo's.
Free Royal Mail Special Delivery for Kraken and free first class signed for for the 1 oz 2013. 
Bank transfer in GBP only 
Selling again on behalf of family member.
Please message me your interest. 
 

The 1 oz 2013 African Wildlife silver coin is sold and sale completed. 2 oz ultra high relief silver Kraken has been withdrawn. 
Hello today I have a 2 oz Silver Kraken round £80 & 1 oz 2013 African Wildlife silver coin £30. Both in protective capsules. 
Nice examples, please study the photo's.
Free Royal Mail Special Delivery for Kraken and free first class signed for for the 1 oz 2013. 
Bank transfer in GBP only 
Selling again on behalf of family member.
Please message me your interest. 
 

The 1 oz 2013 African Wildlife silver coin is sold and sale completed. 2 oz ultra high relief silver Kraken has been withdrawn. 
Hello today I have a 2 oz Silver Kraken round £80 & 1 oz 2013 African Wildlife silver coin £30. Both in protective capsules. 
Nice examples, please study the photo's.
Free Royal Mail Special Delivery for Kraken and free first class signed for for the 1 oz 2013. 
Bank transfer in GBP only 
Selling again on behalf of family member.
Please message me your interest. 
 

The 1 oz 2013 African Wildlife silver coin is sold and sale completed. 2 oz ultra high relief silver Kraken has been withdrawn. 
Hello today I have a 2 oz Silver Kraken round £80 & 1 oz 2013 African Wildlife silver coin £30. Both in protective capsules. 
Nice examples, please study the photo's.
Free Royal Mail Special Delivery for Kraken and free first class signed for for the 1 oz 2013. 
Bank transfer in GBP only 
Selling again on behalf of family member.
Please message me your interest. 
 

Hello everyone, I have just one set of these Thor and Mjolnir sets left for sale. More will be available, the bars are going for hallmarking and will be ready in approx 2 weeks
This set has a combined weight of 2.7 troy ounces 
Each bar has been checked for purity and hallmarked by the Edinburgh Assay office
Will be gift boxed and come with a COA for each bar
PPFF or bank transfer accepted
Thank you for looking
 
 

Another few bits thanks to:-
@James32
@modofantasma
@ChrisSilver

I have for sale some silver bars and coins.
100g bars - £80 1 kg bars - £725 each All items seem untouched and in lovely condition, but I am no collector so please deem them bullion.
Postage is on top and at cost. Payment is by bank transfer.
Thanks all for looking.
* Kindly contact me to check the stock as sometimes I list on other sites and some items might have already sold.

2021 Gothic Crown Portrait UK 2oz Silver Proof Coin 
2021 Gothic Crown Quartered Arms UK 2oz Silver Proof Coin 
£510 the pair Posted Special Delivery 
Bank Transfer preferred but PayPal FF accepted.

Hunting for Nazi Gold in a Dutch Village - BBC News

It's an interesting story:
By Anna Holligan BBC News, Ommeren   Exasperated residents have appealed to treasure-hunters to stay away after they descended on the Dutch village of Ommeren searching for riches potentially worth millions, allegedly hidden by Nazi soldiers during World War Two.
The hunt was triggered by an old map, believed to reveal where German soldiers may have buried ammunition boxes crammed full of looted diamonds, rubies, gold and silver. The hand-drawn diagram complete with a red X to mark the spot is part of a case file made public by the Dutch National Archive only last week.
When the documents were released at the end of a 75-year confidentiality period, the declassified map made clear that Ommeren, in the eastern province of Gelderland, was where the treasure appeared to lie.
The village, and its red X, were near the Allied front line during Operation Market Garden in 1944, an audacious airborne attempt to create a land route into northern Germany.
Now, throughout Ommeren there is evidence of unauthorised excavations.
Discarded farming equipment which presumably activated metal detectors is strewn around freshly dug craters, gouged out of farmland and forests.
  "I moved here for the peace and tranquillity," said Sander, who was out walking his dog, Bouf. "Now the whole world knows about us."

The map includes a cross-sectional drawing to help show the alleged burial site People have been knocking on his door, asking for directions to the hidden treasure. He even saw a group of young people digging.
"This area is already rich in history," said Sander. "The white villa over there was occupied by Nazi officers. When new secrets come out, it makes people curious again."
The declassified documents in the archive include the testimony of a German soldier, who said that a bank in the city of Arnhem, 40km from Ommeren, was hit by a bomb in August 1944, scattering the contents of the vault - jewellery, coins, precious gems and gold watches.
Three or four occupying German soldiers pocketed what they could, he said and stashed their haul in ammunition boxes and bread packages - the most secure containers they had to hand.
Later, in the last weeks of the war, the German invaders were retreating, and, the soldiers apparently decided to bury the treasure.
  After the war a Dutch institute which was set up to track down belongings expropriated by the Nazis came across the story of the young German paratrooper, identified as Helmut Sonder. He provided an eyewitness account and sketched the now well-perused map.
The potential hoard is thought to be so valuable that before the map was released the Dutch state made several attempts to dig the treasure up.
Ommeren resident Petra van Dee, 42, is furious with the Dutch National Archive for releasing the information, which has left her family feeling vulnerable and exposed.
"I cannot sleep. One of the holes they dug in my garden came up to here," she gestured to her chest.
Reporters have popped up outside her window too, wielding microphones and metal detectors on her land.
Her neighbours have been woken by strangers, with flashlights strapped to their foreheads, she claims, furiously plunging spades into their lawn after dark.
  Petra wants the gold-diggers to keep their distance. "Stay away from other people's property, you have nothing to look for here," she says.
For decades the Nazi treasure map and the other documents have been buried deep in the bowels of the National Archive, where men in blue overalls push trolleys laden with folders down narrow aisles of history.
When I visited, it was humming with activity.
"We never expected this," Annet Waalkens, freedom of information adviser concedes as she prises open the dossier of evidence dating back to the 1940s.
If they'd had any inkling a treasure map would capture the public imagination and catapult Ommeren into the global spotlight, staff would have warned the municipality in advance, she assures me.
Metal detectors were recently banned in Ommeren, as there is a real risk of amateur excavators hitting unexploded World War Two grenades, bombs or landmines.
Fortunately, no injuries have been reported, but a number of fines have been issued and even if anyone were to find gold, they would be obliged to declare it and hand it over to the local authority which owns the land.
While the plot might seem to rival a riveting adventure novel, it is also a reminder of the realities of a conflict that claimed 50 million lives, among them six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust.
"With every wartime story, there comes tragedy," Annet Waalkens at the National Archive points out. "And in this case, it reminds us of the story of the people of cities like Arnhem, losing everything they had, including their valuables."
The documents in the archives contain no mention of who the rightful owners might be. Most likely it was local people who had placed the items in the Arnhem bank, wanting to protect their wealth from the Nazis. Much of the property pillaged from Jewish families in the Netherlands was stored in a bank in Amsterdam.
Dutch archivists say they have found no evidence that the German paratrooper who sketched the map has died. Therefore, their assumption is that Helmut Sonder - who would now be 98, according to the documents - may hold the key to unearthing this treasure trove.
The riches have never been found, at least not to public knowledge, and according to the Dutch Archives the four most likely explanations are:
Helmet Sonder was lying. However, his testimony was extensively fact-checked, and found to be credible Someone living nearby, or possibly one of the German soldiers, came back and recovered the loot before authorities caught wind of it An employee from the Dutch institute made use of inside knowledge and secretly returned in between the failed official attempts to find it Two American officers, spotted near disturbed earth, could also have made off with the booty.
In the aftermath of the war, investigators concluded the loot was worth pursuing because it was estimated to be worth millions.
Dutch authorities believe, that even if the elusive treasure trove did ever exist, it's probably long gone.
Some villagers contend the case of the missing Nazi treasure is pure fairy tale.
Bouncing his rosy-cheeked toddler, Alexander chuckles at the international spotlight on Ommeren. "I guess we are famous now."
But he has no interest in joining the treasure hunt. "I have my treasure over there," he nods to his wife and daughter, "I have no need for millions."
How about a TSF meetup in the Netherlands?
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Being a masonic ring surely it has to be 33k!! ☺️

The RM does not help itself by as I say packing say Britannias on top of one another in a plastic tube. Lost count of the number of faces of Liz that have feint scratches on them, Britannias, QBs the lot.

So here we have that 100 oz chunky monkey c/o @motorbikez plus a number of coins and rounds also for the treasure chest c/o @BullionBob 

No Daveth you focus on the bottle of port, then some of us may end up with coins with the Queen's portrait on them. So long as he deosn't do too many they will be worth loads.

Well apparently today is the day they're striking some of the memorial sovereigns. Hopefully Daveth is focused on the job at hand and not thinking about the bottle of port in his cupboard. 

@elonmusk  just followed                 @WallStreetSilv
On twitter.
Somebody put up a Hunt Brothers account and see if he goes for it. 🤣

Not much been happening recently due to the postal strike. Had been waiting on 2 forum purchases arriving for 2 weeks, finally arrived this morning.
First was a Utah Goldback from @CookieMonster, always thought they they looked pretty neat, and they do! 
Second delivery was from a top member that we all know, I have dealt with him a few times. When posted this contained a 2000 & 2001 Silver Britannia. However it arrived opened and empty.

Posted 1st class signed for, but just stuck through my letterbox a fortnight later, obviously opened and obviously emptied of its contents. 
This is the first time I have been victim of this sort of theft from Royal Mail, and although it wasn't a huge amount of money I'm still livid.
The most annoying thing is that nothing will be done and nobody cares. This is level of postal service that is accepted now.

Lovely Multi-Bar from @arshimo2012, and a very clean 1980 1/10 Krug from @Orpster

Last pick ups before Xmas. Some lovely Brits from @kneehow2018 and @Auronum. Lovely low premium goodness
 

Big thanks to @PapaLazarou for reaching out to help with Krugerrand quest. 

Received a couple of days ago. This super graded half sov
 

Some ideas in this video open for discussion. 
 

Some ideas in this video open for discussion. 
 

Some ideas in this video open for discussion. 
 

nice little parcel from Martin this morning...
The knights of the past are amazing, Germania Mint is by far my fav mint for silver
Little Rabbit too.... great coins as usual
Gizmo Pics ....... cheers again @DrDave