Today I Received.....

[Gordy]

2 minutes ago, paulmerton said:

I can't help but think that someone with a fist-sized rock would fare better than someone with a stash of small bits of silver if society really went to pot.

So maybe that BYB rolo would come in more useful than you think  

I'll see your rock and raise you a barbed wire wrapped baseball bat called Lucille.... 

[westminstrel]

34 minutes ago, Gordy said:

I'll see your rock and raise you a barbed wire wrapped baseball bat called Lucille.... 

it’s 1 am and I read the bolded word as something else. 🙈

[James32]

8 minutes ago, westminstrel said:

it’s 1 am and I read the bolded word as something else. 🙈

Close that other tab you have open, it's confusing you 😁

[westminstrel]

2 minutes ago, James32 said:

Close that other tab you have open, it's confusing you 😁

What other tab? 👀 

[HerefordBullyun]

55 minutes ago, Gordy said:

that's because it did 😂

if it did it would be on HMS Bulllyin now me hearty! The holiest boat in NATO!

Edited February 3, 2022 by HerefordBullyun

[Gordy]

25 minutes ago, westminstrel said:

What other tab? 👀 

Pornhub???? 

[LiquidMetalsUK]

something a little different today from a uk pourer. Silver wizard aka spend it or wear it 

[Midasfrog]

6 hours ago, James32 said:

I'm blaming @HerefordBullyun for this one lol.

Big thanks to @ilovesilverireallydo for today's arrival 🙌 

@James32 your the only person I know that uses 1g Valcambis as 1st class stamps on all of your letters 😂😂

Lovely bars 👍 😀

[silversurf]

Well dipping my toe into uncharted waters and well out of my comfort zone is a 1937 Proof Specimen Set. I was lucky to find this pretty much unmolested set in a local antique dealer and after a bit of help and advice from @richatthecroft (Thanks Rich) I took the plunge.

My rubbish photography and no natural light don't really show how nice this really is overall.Toning is minimal on the siver coins and just is a really nice set you don't come across very often and I was lucky to find.

 

[DarkChameleon]

On 02/02/2022 at 13:26, Heirlooms said:

Wow, nice! You've got this far, you might as well keep going. To be fair 40+ silver proofs won't be too far off the five 1oz Philip Nathan designs money wise lol

I have 40 coins, proof and BU..everything from 97 to 22 plus the mule, complete lunars, oriental and Greek edges then proofs 2021, 2020, 2019, then gairsoppa 1/4 oz,my only none 1oz then the germania brittannia couple.

[matt1r]

Couple more pick ups

 

Edited February 3, 2022 by matt1r

[DarkChameleon]

6 hours ago, Gordy said:

I'll see your rock and raise you a barbed wire wrapped baseball bat called Lucille.... 

Not even close..I got a bucket of kitchen utensils that could fight off a zombie horde.

[DarkChameleon]

1 hour ago, silversurf said:

Well dipping my toe into uncharted waters and well out of my comfort zone is a 1937 Proof Specimen Set. I was lucky to find this pretty much unmolested set in a local antique dealer and after a bit of help and advice from @richatthecroft (Thanks Rich) I took the plunge.

My rubbish photography and no natural light don't really show how nice this really is overall.Toning is minimal on the siver coins and just is a really nice set you don't come across very often and I was lucky to find.

 

The farthing has to be one of the best pre decimal coins ever used in change in the 1900s.

[lubi29]

Ordered on Tuesday from Tavex 1/4 Oz Lunar Tiger with  Sovereign I got few weeks ago.

[Timberwolf]

Received my Gothic crown a few weeks ago, but not posted it yet. Jubilee 2oz arrived today, very happy

 

 

[SovereignBishop]

25 minutes ago, lubi29 said:

Ordered on Tuesday from Tavex 1/4 Oz Lunar Tiger with  Sovereign I got few weeks ago.

Very impressed with this companies presentation and their prices. Less than forum prices on Brits!

[silversurf]

39 minutes ago, DarkChameleon said:

The farthing has to be one of the best pre decimal coins ever used in change in the 1900s.

Not even sure how much you could buy back in the day with it. The Wren is one of the UK's smallest birds, so I believe, weighing only about 10g. Tiny....

[richatthecroft]

1 hour ago, DarkChameleon said:

The farthing has to be one of the best pre decimal coins ever used in change in the 1900s.

 

29 minutes ago, silversurf said:

Not even sure how much you could buy back in the day with it. The Wren is one of the UK's smallest birds, so I believe, weighing only about 10g. Tiny....

I very much like the farthing too, my 1953 Proof example has lovely colourful toning.  I think Bronze & Copper coinage is often misguidedly overlooked, there’s some very interesting lower denomination coinage out there.

For those not familiar with Bronze coinage, some early Farthings  were chemically 'Blackened at Mint' to help prevent the Farthing being passed off as a Sovereign.  There were apparently, some escapee's! Here’s my 1902 Farthing.

The Third Farthing is also interesting.  This 1902 was the smallest coin issued by Edward VII and although pretty consistent for Victoria coinage, the Third Farting was made for only one year for Edward VII- 1902.

 

A Farthing was 960 to the pound therefore, there were 2880 Third Farthing's to a Pound.  Although legal tender and used in Great Britain, they were mainly made for use in Malta and Ceylon where the cost of living was much less.  

The mintage of the 1902 Third Farthing was a tiny 288,000 and for those who are keeping up, that equates to just £100 Pounds worth of this denomination being minted!  

Edited February 3, 2022 by richatthecroft

[Stuntman]

Lovely 1937 set @silversurf 🙂

I also like some of the UK predecimal copper/bronze coinage.  My predecimal collection contains a little bit of everything, including a quarter farthing (3840 to the pound!), third farthing, half farthing, and various farthings from 1799 onwards covering George III, George IV, William IV, Victoria and Edward VII.

I love those 12-sided nickel brass threepences as well.  

Edited February 3, 2022 by Stuntman
correcting the maths (I think!)

[Stuntman]

Gratuitous photos of the fractional farthings...

[lst65]

2 hours ago, lubi29 said:

Ordered on Tuesday from Tavex 1/4 Oz Lunar Tiger with  Sovereign I got few weeks ago.

My 1/4 oz tiger arrives tomorrow hopefully 🙏 Enjoy. 

[Mtaybar]

3 minutes ago, lst65 said:

My 1/4 oz tiger arrives tomorrow hopefully 🙏 Enjoy. 

Those Perth mint tigers are Stunning coins. 

[James32]

3 minutes ago, lst65 said:

My 1/4 oz tiger arrives tomorrow hopefully 🙏 Enjoy. 

Move over please as my 1/2 oz tiger arrives tomorrow....na na nana na 😁

[iacabu]

I'll have to make do with a 1/10th. Arrived very recently, courtesy of Shaun Oliver. 

Lovely coin. 

Edited February 3, 2022 by Iacabu

[Mtaybar]

1 minute ago, Iacabu said:

I'll have to make do with a 1/10th. Arrived very recently, courtesy of Shaun Oliver. 

Lovely coin. 

Nothing wrong with 1/10s mucker..... That's a stunner too!