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I went to a family wedding in New Zealand and was there for 3 weeks, this gave me a lot of time to scour the tinternet for some job lots, bargains and nice coins, i didn't realise how much i had bought until i came home 🙈

Lovely little number came through today 😁

Another delivery of 8 old school libs and the white lion from @ATL85 only 3 more libs now for a tube of 20 so I will see what I can dig out at the coin fair.

Is that a pubic hair on the glove in that picture ?

When I saw the mintage figures for the 2020 Proof Half Sovereign - a tiny 2000! - I knew I had to pick one up, especially after my dad ordered the accompanying proof full sovereign. I was quite lucky with the mintage number here, being #308! Second gold coin in my growing stack, and the second half I own.

Today I received the $5 Indian head from @gold
1p and $2.5 Indian head included for size comparison.
 

Central Banks are buying more gold - so I countered with a small purchase 2x 2 ounces Queen's Beast + 1/10 ounce Britannia
 

A pick up from Australian eBay, the 1931 Perth Mint sovereign. The last sovereign produced in Perth as a UK branch mint. 

‘Workers of the World Unite!’ says the inscription.  Thanks @augur for the Soviet Chervonets.
The Dos Pesos crossed the Border from Lancashire into God’s own county safely from Chards. 

Just got to make sure I don’t spend this coin on a grand day out....

One of my scrap dealers had pure silver wire yesterday. So I bought it and made myself a scorpion 🦂 
Not as neat as I had hoped but didn’t have the right tools to bend properly so hand twisted. I guess not terrible for first attempt. Might practice with copper wire till I get it nice looking then try silver again. 

Ten Queens beasts from @SilverStan
Normally a great seller,But i feel not enough stamps were used to post the item 🤣😂

1/4 Libertad and Beast.

I was amazed at the time they printed that bull and that the whole country didn't close them down, Murdocks minions have always been the lowest lifeforms of the media, over here in the states fox news is like his sun, lies damn lies and Murdocks made up bs.

Another great package from Portugal arrived this morning. Been looking forward to this one. Managed to cut a great deal with a retiring dealer over in Portugal via eBay. Indiviudally, all the coins were cheaper than the market norm. Really happy with my purchases here and the dealer was a top drawer gentleman. He's already on the hunt for some coins missing from my collection through his contacts over there. What a guy! 

500 Escudos - 0.500 Silver Circulating commemorative: 1995 - 'Saint Anthony' - Little disappointed with the quality of this coin. Will probably be replacing this one. As it's only £3 or so, not overly concerned!  1996 - 'Banco de Portugal' 1997 - 'Padre Antonio Vieira'
10 Escudos - 0.835 Silver Circulating commemorative: 1928 '- Battle of Ourique' 
1 Escudo - 0.835 Silver Circulating commemorative: 1914 - 'Establishment of the Republic - 1910' - Absolute beauty of a coin! The quality of the obverse on this coin is unreal! I've seen similar quality coins go for triple the price compared to what i paid for this one. Reverse has what looks like a flap mark at the top which is a shame. 
1 Escudo - 0.835 Silver Circulation: 1915 1916
50 Centavos - 0.835 Silver Circulation: 1912 1913 (x2) 1914 1916
20 Centavos - 0.835 Silver Circulation: 1913 1916

And the rest courtesy of the Belgian customer service champions 😉
 
Todays a good day

Got these earlier in the month. Small selection of USA silver. Would love loads more but seems to carry quite a premium over here. 

Thanks to @Tomcbol my two 'Big Five' coins have arrived this morning. 
 
Portugal 20 Escudo's (0.800 Silver - 1,000,000 mintage) from 1953. I've almost got the full set of circulating, commemorative, silver Portuguese Escudos now. Think there are two more left in the collection. Ended up paying a little less than the advertised price (including delivery from Spain). 

And finally, nothing too special here. A circulating 1951 5$00 Escudos coin (Silver - 0.650) which i saw going cheap on eBay from a UK seller. No doubt a standard silver Escudo circulation collection will happen at some point!
 

Todays unboxing (assured my wife its the last this year, and for some reason she believed me. I dont even believe me 🤣)

This week's arrivals, probably last major buys of the year unless some great deals come along.
Couple of libertads, Canadian mounted police and white lions, tube of 2019 'roos, along with a second Krugerrand (Chard's best value 1Oz, my favourite kind of lucky dip!) and a 1/10 Nugget.
Pretty good stack building haul overall this year for a 2019 newbie, need to decide on my goals going forward now I've established a nice stack. 

New purchase  “VINTAGE POURED”  😋

and a little @Spanishsilver arrived alongside with @arshimo2012‘s unbeatable bullion offerings

Today I received a parcel that was so interesting, that it was opened on two continents by authorities:
South America 

 
and Europe

 
maybe because it was organic matter flown in from Colombia in a nice 2 kg block but it was actually just heavy literature 

 
luckily the coins that this heavy literature is referencing came well packaged on Monday, thanks to @Lr103 who I cannot thank enough for his assistance. 
Little sneak

 
For sovereign lovers this Syrian Libra (also used as reference in PCGS coin facts

 
and a very nice 1966 sovereign 

 
and an almost proof like 2 Rand

amongst many others...

Couldn't not share this little beauty which arrived from Portugal today for my personal collection. 
This coin is part of the 21 x 1,000 Escudo circulating, silver, commemorative coin range. It's also part of a wider "Ibero-American Series" in particular Series II - Endangered Wildlife. I have no interest in the other countries Ibero-American series (yet, anyway) but the other coins from this series from Portugal are some of my favourites.
It's quite rare compared to the others in the 1000 Escudo collection with a mintage of 70,000 versus 450,000 - 600,000 for the others. Most i've seen for sale over the past month or two for a reasonable price have been in pretty poor condition. This one isn't perfect, but picked it up within budget as i may (or may not have - depends who's asking!) picked up the other 20 in the collection from the same dealer. 
Only 0.500 silver but weighs in at 28g and 40mm in diameter.
*Disclaimer - yes i'm aware my scissor cutting skills are atrocious, yes it will annoy me every second of every minute of every hour of every day and yes i will be replacing it the minute i can get my hands on a colour printer!

I do enjoy early Xmas presents.