Today I Received.....

[SheepStacker]

Stunning 2003 1/4 Proof Brit from @SiCole

[slack]

11 hours ago, paulmerton said:

'Pyx'

Of course, many thanks

[1moreoz]

First bit of gold arrived today from atkinsons. Excited to finally get back into gold. First time I’ve owned a sovereign. I really like them, how would I find out a bit more about sovereign coins ? I was going to buy 10 but atkinsons only had 7 left so just went with 2 brits and 2 sovs but next time if they have stock I’ll grab more sovs.

 

[SheepStacker]

5 minutes ago, 1moreoz said:

First bit of gold arrived today from atkinsons. Excited to finally get back into gold. First time I’ve owned a sovereign. I really like them, how would I find out a bit more about sovereign coins ? I was going to buy 10 but atkinsons only had 7 left so just went with 2 brits and 2 sovs but next time if they have stock I’ll grab more sovs.

 

You can always find lots of Sovs for sale on here. Price usually on par with the big dealers. Just check out the Sales thread.

[Silverlocks]

37 minutes ago, 1moreoz said:

First bit of gold arrived today from atkinsons. Excited to finally get back into gold. First time I’ve owned a sovereign. I really like them, how would I find out a bit more about sovereign coins ? I was going to buy 10 but atkinsons only had 7 left so just went with 2 brits and 2 sovs but next time if they have stock I’ll grab more sovs.

If you want to know something about sovereigns, then there are 3 books of interest:

• Marsh, The Gold Sovereign.  This has some background, along with mintage figures and assessments of rarity of every sovereign produced up until 2021.
• Allen: Grading British Coins.  This has pictures of all major obverse and reverse devices on every British coin produced between the end of the 18th century and 1970 or so - in a range of grades.  It's a good way to teach yourself about how to assess the condition of sovereigns as you can compare your coin to the examples in the book.
• Spink: Coins of England and the United Kingdom: Annually published catalogue of all British coins with representative valuations at various grades.  Get the current (2023) edition.

Edited August 16, 2023 by Silverlocks

[paulmerton]

An unusual pair of cuff links

[daca]

Got the second release in The Majestic Polar Bear (and cubs) series (1 oz AG and 1/10 Oz AU)

and for storing some of the coins an Leuchtturm Cargo L6

Edited August 16, 2023 by daca

[9x883]

3 hours ago, 1moreoz said:

First bit of gold arrived today from atkinsons. Excited to finally get back into gold. First time I’ve owned a sovereign. I really like them, how would I find out a bit more about sovereign coins ? I was going to buy 10 but atkinsons only had 7 left so just went with 2 brits and 2 sovs but next time if they have stock I’ll grab more sovs.

 

So yellow😍😍😍😍😍💖💖💖💖

4 hours ago, SheepStacker said:

Stunning 2003 1/4 Proof Brit from @SiCole

coin p#$n right there😍😍😍

[Upsidedown]

5 minutes ago, 9x883 said:

p#$n

 

[9x883]

26 minutes ago, Upsidedown said:

 

lmao🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Heirlooms]

I couldn’t resist. I picked up the 2oz King Charles III Coronation Proof Matte coin, only 100 mintage. I think I will get this one graded as it will sit nicely alongside my 2oz completer coin which also has a mintage of 100 😊

[9x883]

2 minutes ago, Heirlooms said:

I couldn’t resist. I picked up the 2oz King Charles III Coronation Proof Matte coin, only 100 mintage. I think I will get this one graded as it will sit nicely alongside my 2oz completer coin which also has a mintage of 100 😊

Marvelous pieces indeed 😍💖💖💖💖

[monkey]

32 minutes ago, Heirlooms said:

I couldn’t resist. I picked up the 2oz King Charles III Coronation Proof Matte coin, only 100 mintage. I think I will get this one graded as it will sit nicely alongside my 2oz completer coin which also has a mintage of 100 😊

They are some very fine examples of gold! sure to be a good investment in the years to come!

Good pics too! I think @Charliemouse's skills are rubbing off on the forum.

[Mrpound]

Bought a spot price lot of American silver the other day as I could tell there was a 1919 in there with a mint mark but couldn’t tell which, turns out it’s a 1919-s which I need for my date run but it maybe in too good a condition for the date run and maybe a candidate for grading 🧐 as it cost me £1.50 😝

[NGMD]

Pretty Suff

Following strict Investment advice on my purchases…..nah, I’m just buying shiny.

Missus- ‘ it’s Silver tat you bought?’

Me- ‘yes luv, I sprayed it Gold for the pictures’

Missus - I’m off to get cat food from Aldi again’

2oz Completer 2021 - Royal Mint.

1 Kg Completer 2021

1/4 Gold Coronation Proof 2023 (*shhhhh BBP)

1/4 Gold Coronation Cypher *

1/10 Gold Kookaburra 2023 *

1/4 Gold Red Dragon of Hereford 2017 (2)

2005 Double Sovereign Proof 

2002 Sovereign-HGM (eagle eyed member find)

2001 Proof Sovereign

2017 Proof Sovereign

2017 1/4 Gold Kruggerand Proof Mint Mark 50th

 

That’ll do pig, that’ll do.

[Upsidedown]

1 minute ago, NGMD said:

1 Kg Completer 2021

..please.. tell me you didn't..

[geowill989]

5 minutes ago, NGMD said:

Missus- ‘ it’s Silver tat you bought?’

silver stackers have entered the chat

[Silverlocks]

2000 Perth Mint Dragon Purchased a week or two ago from @Webster - just got around to getting some pics.

[Earthmetal]

Got a lump of German gold today alongside a grubby Quarter-Sov.
The 20 Marks is very nice, the teeny sov not so. Being so small is it worth any remedial work or should I just treat it as bullion? (it has a COA).

 

[NGMD]

29 minutes ago, Upsidedown said:

..please.. tell me you didn't..

Not a chance even if he was giving it away.

[NGMD]

28 minutes ago, geowill989 said:

silver stackers have entered the chat

@GoldDiggerDave said ‘Hello’.

[Silverlocks]

13 minutes ago, Earthmetal said:

Got a lump of German gold today alongside a grubby Quarter-Sov.
The 20 Marks is very nice, the teeny sov not so. Being so small is it worth any remedial work or should I just treat it as bullion? (it has a COA).

 

The sovereign - probably not worth doing anything with.  

The 20 mark coin - hard to tell because of the colour balance but it looks like the coin has some corrosion on it.  This will be a sort of brick red colour on the coin.  Conservation can remove this (it will come off chemically), and if you really want to do this, @GoldDiggerDave can help you there.  The coin is in fairly good nick - aboutEF or EF maybe - but it's probably not worth getting slabbed. This is often not worth it for circulated gold coins unless they're rare or in exceptionally good condition.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces32031.html

I think this is the coin you've got here - 1888 doesn't appear to be particularly rare and only seems to command a real premium in UNC condition, which suggests you're probably better off just enjoying the coin as-is.

P.S. Take a look at @Charliemouse's articles about photographing gold - they go into how to calibrate the colour balance (which is quite straightforward but needs a little grey that you can get for a few quid of Amazon.  If you're using a mobile consider getting the Opencamera app.

Edited August 16, 2023 by Silverlocks

[Charliemouse]

27 minutes ago, Silverlocks said:

2000 Perth Mint Dragon Purchased a week or two ago from @Webster - just got around to getting some pics.

That's a beauty.  If you ever need cash...

[Earthmetal]

5 minutes ago, Silverlocks said:

The sovereign - probably not worth doing anything with.  

The 20 mark coin - hard to tell because of the colour balance but it looks like the coin has some corrosion on it.  This will be a sort of brick red colour on the coin.  Conservation can remove this (it will come off chemically), and if you really want to do this, @GoldDiggerDave can help you there.  The coin is in fairly good nick - aboutEF or EF maybe - but it's probably not worth getting slabbed. This is often not worth it for circulated gold coins unless they're rare or in exceptionally good condition.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces32031.html

I think this is the coin you've got here - 1888 doesn't appear to be particularly rare and only seems to command a real premium in UNC condition, which suggests you're probably better off just enjoying the coin as-is.

P.S. Take a look at @Charliemouse's articles about photographing gold - they go into how to calibrate the colour balance (which is quite straightforward but needs a little grey that you can get for a few quid of Amazon.  If you're using a mobile consider getting the Opencamera app.

Sorry for the confusion, the 20 Mark is just an interesting old bullion coin in my eyes. The Quarter I wouldn't have slabbed anyway, I just wondered if it was worth restoring and keeping in it's original Royal Mint proof type capsule, or even buying an original box for it too as I have the COA.

My camera is an old Nikon Coolpix 'cos I can't find anything decent to replace it with. Now everyone uses 'phones cameras outside of the DSLR seem to have gone down the pan.

[Charliemouse]

13 minutes ago, NGMD said:

Not a chance even if he was giving it away.

If he was giving it away, I'd take the hit for the team.