Today I Received.....

[ilovesilverireallydo]

More fractional! A friend brought these from Turkey

[CadmiumGreen]

@augur, why so sad about the 1989 Half Sov? I am quite happy with the PF 69😀! 

[augur]

15 minutes ago, CadmiumGreen said:

@augur, why so sad about the 1989 Half Sov? I am quite happy with the PF 69😀! 

Sorry, autocorrect on the emojis... was supposed to be a happy one!

[CadmiumGreen]

@augur, Thank you very much! Those pesky emojicons do get away from us at times!😁

[JBstacker3181]

My first half solvern 2004.

Edited January 21, 2019 by JBstacker3181

[Kman]

43 minutes ago, JBstacker3181 said:

My first half solvern 2004 proof.

Is it a proof? doesn't look it from the pics

Edited January 21, 2019 by Kman

[Goldmick]

+1

[shawy2510]

1 hour ago, JBstacker3181 said:

My first half solvern 2004 proof.

Not a proof unforunately. Hope you didn't pay over the odds for it

[JBstacker3181]

2 minutes ago, shawy2510 said:

Not a proof unforunately. Hope you didn't pay over the odds for it

Thank you I will be going back to talk to my lcs tomorrow. See this is why I love the silver forum!!!! I can always count on you all. Thanks so much!!!

Edited January 21, 2019 by JBstacker3181

[JBstacker3181]

Can anyone show me an example of a 2004 proof half solv. Cuz I'm doing a lil digging and I'm finding diff examples of this coin in proof. The one I have is definitely a heavy mirrored finish.

[Kman]

3 minutes ago, JBstacker3181 said:

Can anyone show me an example of a 2004 proof half solv. Cuz I'm doing a lil digging and I'm finding diff examples of this coin in proof. The one I have is definitely a heavy mirrored finish.

Missing the frosting easy way to tell without getting deeper into the quality of the strike https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-Gold-Proof-Half-Sovereign-PCGS-PR66-DCAM-Deep-Cameo-Sov-Great-Britain/123547920193?hash=item1cc407a741:g:SEQAAOSwoZlcFoDV:rk:15:pf:0

[Roy]

[ilovesilverireallydo]

9 minutes ago, JBstacker3181 said:

Can anyone show me an example of a 2004 proof half solv. Cuz I'm doing a lil digging and I'm finding diff examples of this coin in proof. The one I have is definitely a heavy mirrored finish.

See the photo @Roy just posted in this thread. Mirror finishes are bullion’s. 

[JBstacker3181]

35 minutes ago, ilovesilverireallydo said:

See the photo @Roy just posted in this thread. Mirror finishes are bullion’s. 

Ok so they all have that frosted look to the portrait??

[ilovesilverireallydo]

1 minute ago, JBstacker3181 said:

Ok so they all have that frosted look to the portrait??

All PROOFS have the frosted portraits on the modern sovs

[ilovesilverireallydo]

5 minutes ago, JBstacker3181 said:

Ok so they all have that frosted look to the portrait??

Here are three of my proof halves. Unfortunately they have been handled and marked so no real premium on them anymore 

[JBstacker3181]

10 minutes ago, ilovesilverireallydo said:

All PROOFS have the frosted portraits on the modern sovs

That's what I meant thank you.

[Hyunchul]

2018 Libertad gold proof 5coin set. 

Fantastic. 

[Sovereign]

2002 proof sovereign 

[Agpanda]

the book gold and silver coins of China standard catalogue 1979 to 2017 1st edition

[Elements]

1 hour ago, Bdean316 said:

Recieved 4 sovs from HGM - anyone know much about the 1891 short tailed sov?  I.e is it rare?

cheers

I think the 1891-m short is rarer than the long tail. That year they made both. Confusingly spink assigned the long tail version as rarer but more recently revised to the short tail version being rarer!

There’s a couple threads on here about it

@ilovesilverireallydo and @CadmiumGreen both had one and might have done further research

https://thesilverforum.com/topic/13592-1891-short-tail-sovereign/

[richatthecroft]

3 hours ago, Hyunchul said:

 

2018 Libertad gold proof 5coin set. 

Fantastic. 

 

Beautiful set of coins.  

[Sovereign]

4 hours ago, Hyunchul said:

2018 Libertad gold proof 5coin set. 

can you take the 1/20oz out the box ? 😆

[Hyunchul]

11 minutes ago, Sovereign said:

can you take the 1/20oz out the box ? 😆

I haven’t tried. 

[richatthecroft]

Little & Large arrived today to entertain. Much more enthralling than the comedy duo...

The Mercury Dime is one of my favourite designs.

I’m over the moon with my grading results. 

And thank you to @Britannia47 for this 2017 Half which has remained unopened since its manufacture.