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The 2020 proof sovereign. Bought direct from the Royal Mint and the condition is great. 

Had promised myself that I would buy a 1oz this year. Been playing a few poker tournaments last couple of months and the winnings have allowed me to double up on the promise. I had actually bought and sold the chariot one before, this time am keeping it.
 
Hopefully the rest of the tournaments do just as well and I can put some more away next year! 

An 1897 $5 Liberty Head Half Eagle received from a random AU purchase. Slowly building up the pre-33 gold collection.

Yeah it’s worth it. Those photos don’t do it justice. Hopefully this is a better one.

Good job. I to have a bar that I'm think of hammering, got some test marks that bugs me. 

2 x 1oz 2019 Dragon Bars from our @ram64 - thanks!

All but two of the silver Portuguese circulation coins for my collection. 
 

Me delivery today helped me reach my annual goal by reaching 12 gold coins. One for each month of the year. I was hoping they would all be full sovereigns but had to buy halves during harder months. 
All nicely displayed in my sovereign box made by @Alun
 

Received a really bad condition 100gm Silver Metalor bar. So tried my hand at tombstonning it. Happy with the results I must admit. 

Well bloody impressed with my latest delivery from Atkinson’s. I ordered three Sovereigns yesterday afternoon and they came this morning with a pre 1PM delivery which can’t be cheap.
Even more impressive as they don’t charge delivery. 
1918, 1919 and 1932. All with different mint marks, which I like. 

Big thanks to @SilverStan for my 10oz Kook and “Poo” China dollar. Excellent packaging as always
 

Another couple of oz's for the stack...

Oh flower of Scotland...
Mintage of 275.

Got this lot for 1% over spot delivered, thanks to the HGM Black Friday sale. Got a little over excited adding stuff to the basket, no more purchases for me for a long time! 😂

 
Some close up pics; 

Received these 2016 1/20th Libertads today care of @ilovesilverireallydo Thanks. 

I bought this 2017 1 Onza Libertad from @kneehow2018 in Summer 2018, But only submitted it recently- back today from NGC- and very pleased with the PF70 UC result.



And at last, the 2017 Libertad 5 coin ‘set’ altogether.  
All bought individually from the Silver Forum over the last 18 months or so.  Thanks to @augur, @austack, @kneehow2018 & from the USA @mongo28 for parting with them. 



 
 

Tried to show the relief on it. Happy with this

Some special and semi_key Pandas
Elusive Bimetallics : 
Hard to find the 1996 Munch coin show  (mintage 1500) at 25/30% below market price
 
 
The bimetallic 10 Yuan 1994 Mintage 3000. Beautiful overall and nice silver  toning for a nice price,  but will need conservation if graded

Semi key  1/2oz 2006 with 10% premium

Key 1/10 oz Panda 2006. I bought it at Metal Market Europe (first time and last time buy). But very disapointed with the quality and MME reply when I asked for a refund. They said that Pandas are only bullion coins and not numismatic coins, when I argued about the (high) premium, they said it's normal for fractionnal coins (150% premium, ouch....). I hope to send it back however and everything will be fine
 

Just the one, yet doesn't seem quite right somehow

To truly understand my obsession with world and fractional coins you have to just see my this months acquisition  
Thankfully dropping this lot off to be parked in long term storage tomorrow.
Apart from the two Timothy Noad half sovs and the Paul Day quarter sov, it’s all stuff a stacker shouldnt be hoarding lol. 
 

2003 0.5g Panda from the Republic of Liberia. $25 face value. 

Nothing too exciting these last few weeks. Likely to go on a little spending spree on Friday to round off 2019. 
My first 1oz Dragon Bars (2018), thanks to our very own @Guybrush

And a single 2020 1oz Britannia as a gift to a good friends baby over in Portugal to continue a date run for her birthday 'rainy day fund'. 

Not collected yet but had some NGC results land today... here are a few of the shiny shiny ones....
 2017 Newton Gold 50p (My favourite gold 50p design)

Nations of the Crown Gold £1 (Possibly for sale)

2013 Strike on the Day Jubilee Sovereign (very hard to get one of these in this grade as they are bullion sovs for the early SOTD so VERY happy with this finally)

2002 Bullion Half Sov. Submitted cos when i brought it looked rather minty.. and it was indeed minty getting a 69DPL grade!

And then this is a bit of a random one - I submitted a 1977 Proof UK Set and asked if they would also slab the medal for me, just cos it goes with the set. They did and graded it, worth nowt but looks good with the set (collect what you love, its not all about the money!)  

 

At long long last..my date run of French 20 Francs Angels is complete, and comes to an end (and an expensive one☹️)!. With kind assistance from @augur I managed to get the ‘Torch’ engravers mark on an 1896....bought at the Gadoury auction in Monaco earlier this month. 
 


This will fit in nicely with the little hoard below...note the difference between the two 1896’s.

The wifes xmas presents turned up today so a quick peek before she steals them off me. Massive thank you to @vicamy for the 1/4 krugg and a few other forum members for the other bits 

And then collected these from @StackSellRepeat
Again really happy with the fractionals slabbed so perfect 
And the extra coin shows he goes the extra mile 
Top bloke 👍

A little bit of liquorice allsorts from postie today, very pleased with the Canadians, just need a couple more to complete the date run... And of course they'll be the expensive ones 😂