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Finally acquired a British Trade Dollar for my British Imperial / Colonial collection. They were issued to facilitate British trade in Asia hence the Eastern stylings. Satisfying feeling when you get your hands on a coin you've long desired! This one is a 1910 Bombay mint example. I plan to get more of these though - either one for each of the decades they were minted (1890s-1930s) or one for each monarch they were minted under (Victoria, Edward VII, George V).
 

Hello dear friends, once again a new entry. 10oz silver Kookaburra 2021, very small edition and hard to get and if then at high prices. I was able to buy one quite cheaply from a private collector. Now I have 2 of them. I wish you all a nice weekend and greetings from Maxe.

Got this little beaut courtesy of Martin.....
 

Been really excited whilst waiting for this one. Never purchased the 2021 Liberty Gold coin of the year so to get the chance to purchase on the silver medal instead was a no brainier for me. How good does that look!

Sincere thanks to GoldDiggerDave for his excellent service. Not back in hand yet, but four out of five ain’t bad! 

Lazy bloody Postie has been holding out on me 😒

 

1/4 oz Coronation Cypher
And a free 1oz KC3 brit curtesy of @Darr3nG ! Thanks buddy

I respectfully disagree - governments have moved on from paper backed by metal but central banks globally are moving back to monetary metals, with gold a Tier 1 asset alongside USD and US Treasuries. The government (the USA gold standard and Nixon Shock of 1971), did not move away from metals by choice but by necessity
Most cryptos are utter BS. Having been in that sphere from the very beginning - I probably owned BTC at least 10 years before most people here - I can tell you the only practical application is for crime. Having said that BTC is not suited for crime as it's fully traceable. XMR and ZCash are better suited but look at the observables - crypto exchanges don't even promote these opensource currencies let alone the mainstream. They want to feed you c**p they can profit from and control, like their own tokens, their own printing presses, their own ecosystems. BTC and eventually ETH will fall into the ecosystem of a larger player, be it BlackRock, JPM, Fidelity and Ark or the governments of North Korea, Iran, El Salvador, Venezuela, Nigeria and the Central African Republic
There is no fundamental scarcity. If you wish you can create 8 trillion more BTC tomorrow, just like with DOGEcoin, which is partially based (copy/pasted) from BTC along with LTC and LuckyCoin. There is no pretence of scarcity with DOGE yet it doesn't stop Elon Musk and other muppets pumping it like there's no tomorrow due to perverse incentives.
Compare that to gold and silver. You can wish all you want but you will never be able to create more gold than the universe itself set as a fundamental limit from supernovae and the interaction of massive celestial bodies like neutron stars and black holes. As a physicist I understand you can transmutate other elements into gold but this is a highly impractical exercise that does not yield monetary metals, unless gold is worth 300,000 times the current value and you don't mind a touch of radiation poisoning
Please understand I am not necessarily anti-crypto but I am anti-fraud and against mass market mis-selling of these assets. BTC is being mis-sold as very few truly understand what is going on. It's also mis-sold as it meets none of the official labels/characteristics attributed to it
Our currency is not backed by gold at all. You can print infinite amounts of fiat without adding a single extra gram of gold. Our currency is fully digital with instant payments. You can pay by card, you can pay with your phone, you can pay with a chip inserted in your forearm or your forehead if you so choose
Cryptos have zero utility outside of crime and by that I specifically mean there is pre-existing technology that does the job better and more efficiently (faster/cheaper/less energy). The clue is in the name - cryptocurrency. It is a currency (although really it's not, it's a fad of toxic waste according to the entirely of Wall Street in 2012 and Warren Buffett, whom we may as well group together as the most sophisticated investors on the planet). So it's a currency, it is not money. The only money that has ever existed and ever will exist are precious metals. PMs have a fundamental universal limit, not a "fundamental" human or technological limit, which we know are fundamentally flawed and have expiry dates. 
 

Thanks to Tavex and @Bearest78 I’m feeling Bullish on silver today 

And last but not least

bought some fractional AU coins today

and some collectables from Perth mint

Today i visited the pre-columbian gold museum in San José,Costa Rica. They had an awesome nugget on display.
 

Today i visited the pre-columbian gold museum in San José,Costa Rica. They had an awesome nugget on display.
 

Today i visited the pre-columbian gold museum in San José,Costa Rica. They had an awesome nugget on display.
 

Wouldn't we all love one of those!

Today i visited the pre-columbian gold museum in San José,Costa Rica. They had an awesome nugget on display.
 

RAM Australian Antarctic Territory – Humpback Whale

RAM Australia Zoo - Southern White Rhinoceros

RAM Dolphin series - Rough-Toothed Dolphin

Bargain find from Facebook has just arrived! Mint sealed tube of 20 2013 brits. First year of the 999 silver coin, 10 years old and in better nick than 90% of what the mint kick out today 😆

Flip flopping on what I want to collect and then changing my mind 2 weeks later. Some nice things to look at.
 
Metalors 20g
Valcambi ‘Always’ 5g
Pamps 1g,2.5g,5g
2020 Proof Sovereigns with Cypher *
2023 Proof Coronation Sovereigns (1 to grading)
Germania Mint Mystical Forest 1oz Silver Final Coin 4 of 4
Germania 1oz Bars Box.
1877 Leopold II RM  20 Franc (Best you’ll see.Detail❤️). *
*For sale when I can be bothered to list. So probably Never.

A very minty 50 year old Krug. Looks to have never been touched. And best of all 0.25% above spot including tax!

Some ASE’s to add to my date run and a lovely 1/4 proof greyhound, both from @Webster and yet another tube of silver brits from Facebook 😂🙈

Added some more memorial bullion whilst spot was low and also a 1/4oz QE2 memorial from Ash

Decided to go for it while BBP were offering 1% off on top of c£100 dip.
It may or may not pay off🤷🤷 but the dip became more significant than the dealer, and the extra 1% off sealed the deal.
Obviously spot will fall another 100 quid soon!!
Regards

And for my next ounce.......
Some classic Americana
Special thanks to @1stsovereign

5 silver Britannias and a 1/10 platinum Britannia 2023. Thanks go to @BackyardBullion