Today I Received.....

[slack]

8 minutes ago, slack said:

What a fantastic moustache, I was only looking at one of these coins (20 kroner I believe) in Atkinson's yesterday. The portraits are amazing but told myself I mustn't open up a whole new collecting rabbit hole for myself!

I see I've misidentified the coin but it's the same moustache lol!

[Artictim]

14 hours ago, modofantasma said:

Thanks, I've got more to learn about specific grades 

Don’t beat yourself up. So have NGC🤭

[Leonmarsh]

1 hour ago, slack said:

I see I've misidentified the coin but it's the same moustache lol!

Umberto 20 lire you were probaly looking at belting moustache 

[slack]

15 minutes ago, Leonmarsh said:

Umberto 20 lire you were probaly looking at belting moustache 

Thank You for the info, I've noticed so many gold kroner/krona coins from late nineteenth early twentieth century from Norway, Sweden, Netherlands Denmark and so on with fantastic portraits and as a major bonus many have superb shieldback designs. It's a whole new rabbit hole for me but I must resist... I tell you... I must resist...  the prices look good... No I must resist!

[TheShinyStuff]

Not today, but thanks to @paulmerton (anyone else wonder if its Paul Merton off the telly?!l) the 3 coin memorial set. And also a 2.5g gold Fortuna from @TavexBullion. My first from them, must say excellent packaging. Both excellent deals.

The Pamp has joined my growing family...

And then off to storage for the yellow metal...

[paulmerton]

8 minutes ago, TheShinyStuff said:

thanks to @paulmerton (anyone else wonder if its Paul Merton off the telly?!l)

No, different bloke. I'm the funny one.

[Petra]

Thanks to @AgD, something a little cheaper today

 

[StackSellRepeat]

Fantastic new purchase love history & I’m extremely honoured in owning this specimen, Produced from salvaged silver bars from the shipwreck SS SKYRO in 1896 😍😍😍

*May pop my cherry by getting this graded if that’s possible.

[CoinStruck]

A nice original 1809 Eight Reals with Ferdinand VII on the obverse. Minted at the Mexico City mint. Picked this up yesterday.

[Petra]

3 minutes ago, CoinStruck said:

A nice original 1809 Eight Reals with Ferdinand VII on the obverse. Minted at the Mexico City mint. Picked this up yesterday.

Looks great😮

[Silverlocks]

46 minutes ago, CoinStruck said:

A nice original 1809 Eight Reals with Ferdinand VII on the obverse. Minted at the Mexico City mint. Picked this up yesterday.

 

[Charliemouse]

Tolkien gold proof, silver proof and silver piedfort

Very attractive coins, direct from RM.  Unfortunately, of the three only the silver proof is good enough to keep.  The others will be returned.

Here are some microscope photos.

1. With the gold proof, it looks like KCIII has been assassinated.

2. And the piedfort has some fairly obvious scratches near the glyph.

3. Nothing seriously wrong with the silver proof.  So I've included a photograph showing the 'gold' overlay around the edge, for those curious about it.

Edited August 27, 2023 by Charliemouse

[slack]

18 hours ago, StackSellRepeat said:

Fantastic new purchase love history & I’m extremely honoured in owning this specimen, Produced from salvaged silver bars from the shipwreck SS SKYRO in 1896 😍😍😍
 

*May pop my cherry by getting this graded if that’s possible.

Ahh that is a special piece, well done, it would be interesting to see what a grading company can do with it. I have a much less impressive example of a recovered shipwrecked piece of silver in the form of a 2014 quarter Oz Brittania from the SS Gairsoppa that submarine torpedoed and sank in 1941 off the south coast of Ireland and was rediscovered in 2011, please excuse poor photos

[slack]

Just now, slack said:

Ahh that is a special piece, well done, it would be interesting to see what a grading company can do with it. I have a much less impressive example of a recovered shipwrecked piece of silver in the form of a 2014 quarter Oz Brittania from the SS Gairsoppa that submarine torpedoed and sank in 1941 off the south coast of Ireland and was rediscovered in 2011, please excuse poor photos

 

[Silverlocks]

1 hour ago, slack said:

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please excuse poor photos

The second one was alright - decent lighting and in focus.

[slack]

7 minutes ago, Silverlocks said:

The second one was alright - decent lighting and in focus.

Haha very fair cheers, I guess that was the important one so I'll call that the winner eh, best wishes to you, Slack

[paulmerton]

2 hours ago, Charliemouse said:

2. And the piedfort has some fairly obvious scratches near the glyph.

I think these are fibres or swarf struck-through, rather than scratches. Some of my annual set proofs had similar looking things.

[Charliemouse]

3 hours ago, paulmerton said:

I think these are fibres or swarf struck-through, rather than scratches. Some of my annual set proofs had similar looking things.

You may be right. I'll have another look with the microscope. They ain't coming off though.

Edited August 27, 2023 by Charliemouse

[whuamai]

Some Shield Backs Sovereigns

 

[stefffana]

On 26/08/2023 at 12:43, Leonmarsh said:

Japanese 10 yen 

Hungary 8 florins 

Newfoundland 2 dollar 

Hamburg 10 Marks 

Very nice coins, as usual, Leon.🤗

Your 10 yen coin is 1908, the 41st year of Meiji, isn't it? 

 

[Charliemouse]

Thanks to @GoldDiggerDave for the massive haul of coins I got back from NGC.  Most of them I've photographed before, but some of them went straight from Royal Mint to the graders.

Here are a couple of the new ones:

2023 Coronation 1oz Gold Proof

2023 Coronation SOTD Sovereign

[NGMD]

4 minutes ago, Charliemouse said:

Thanks to @GoldDiggerDave for the massive haul of coins I got back from NGC.  Most of them I've photographed before, but some of them went straight from Royal Mint to the graders.

Here are a couple of the new ones:

2023 Coronation 1oz Gold Proof

2023 Coronation SOTD Sovereign

I have 1oz and Proof Coronation coming back from the Forum Superhero @GoldDiggerDave this week as well. The 1oz detail is amazingly beautiful.

[Simmoleon]

Not in hand yet so it could end up being an utter dog of a coin but got this for a tenner 

 

[Petra]

4 hours ago, Simmoleon said:

Not in hand yet so it could end up being an utter dog of a coin but got this for a tenner 

 

Looks great! Hopefully once in hand it will be great😮

[Petra]

Thanks to @Orpster, usual great service! Plus a great coin👍