My journey to 100x 20 French Francs

[Keithoil]

Here you go.

 

http://www.ebay.fr/sch/i.html?_from=R40%7CR40%7CR40&_sacat=0&_nkw=gold+20+french+francs&_sop=2

[HighlandTiger]

My two 20 francs turned up from HGM today. Very happy. They turned out to be a 1863 and an 1868. 

 

That's me on the grand total or is it grande total of 2 Gold French 20 Franc coins. 

[Keithoil]

vg ht!! They are so beautiful..... today I received one of them...and now Im classifing them and putting them into an special 100 coin-box I bought from ebay.

 

Come on RBG put some pics up.

[Kman]

Put them all into a big velvet sack or pirate chest 

[Keithoil]

I have opted for the small books to put all my sovereigns in, they are the same or similar to the ones HT put up a while ago.

 

I will post some pics when I get back home.

 

EDIT:Just remembered I will need G4 to assist in the extraction of my gold from the vaults.

[HighlandTiger]

As you can see I put all the coins in holders because I think that its very convenient...it's cheap, protects the coin, you can manipulate it and you can annotate things... I don't know who was a fan of these holders..kman or madhatter maybe?

 

It was meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 

 

Here are my two new additions ready to go into the album, and yeah I'm crap at photos too.

 

 

[Keithoil]

One thing I cannot do is bring myself to write on the white covers.

 

Its just me.

 

Even if I did it would have to be in pencil!!

[Keithoil]

I also got a little album...for my other small gold, half sovs, ducats, 1/10... Maybe I will end up with a lot of albums shining with goolddd inside (golum is growing inside of mee)

I also have the smaller one for silver sixpences and threepence's etc.

 

That is here with me now in my bag, something to hold along with my 1878 CC Morgan dollar.

[Keithoil]

Oohh the ever changing world of coin storage solutions.

[HighlandTiger]

I aim to fill one Album with 60 x Half Sovs, one Album with 60 x Sovs and another with 60 x Foreign Gold coins. And then when I've done that, I'll start another three albums, and so on .

 

So far they are all in one album, Just  filled my fourth page, so I now have 24 Gold coins from 1/10th in size up to full sov

 

  

[Keithoil]

I am currently at 36 full sovereigns, and 38 half sovereigns.

 

With others also.

[HighlandTiger]

I am currently at 36 full sovereigns, and 38 half sovereigns.

 

With others also.

Now I'm depressed.......

 

It'll take me a couple of years to get to those numbers. Took Keith a couple of weeks....   

[morezone]

I have 2 mint tubes for sovereigns which I intended to fill.  Unfortunately, I went off on a tangent and have only managed 2 sovereigns.

[watchesandwhisky]

its taken me 2 years to get to 200 ounces, that's only 2 oz a week average..damn must try harder!

 

Silver i mean! 

[HighlandTiger]

Anyone fancy buying these to put their 20 F coins in  

 

http://www.ebay.fr/itm/x2-ANCIEN-ETUI-ROULEAU-PORTE-LOUIS-DOR-20-FRANCS-TUBE-EN-LAITON-GUENE-CUIR-/281466167194?pt=FR_GW_Monnaies_Pi%C3%A8cesFrancs&hash=item4188b0df9a

[Keithoil]

As I explained before I am in a fortunate situation working in the Middle East. This will not last forever my contract is up in April / May 2015.

 

BUT and this is a big BUT, I am away from my family for over half of the year.  

 

​We all do have to make sacrifices.

[HighlandTiger]

As I explained before I am in a fortunate situation working in the Middle East. This will not last forever my contract is up in April / May 2015.

 

BUT and this is a big BUT, I am away from my family for over half of the year.  

 

​We all do have to make sacrifices.

 

Only ribbing you mate....lol. Believe me I've been where you are. I've had the 6 months at a time working away from home. You need to get the big money when and where you can, because you never know how long it's going to last. 

 

I was earning more money in 1998 than I am now. And I'm certainly not poor today. Just wish I'd saved more then. Luckily, you've managed to do what I was unable to do, and now I'm playing catch up, while you are ahead of the game. Fair play mate     

[Keithoil]

I guess there are probably some more people like me on here a contract Engineer, put simply now work no pay.

[HighlandTiger]

I cant afford this right now, but theres a 20F just come on ebay for about 2 % over spot delivered on a Buy it now. Anyone fancy it?

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/France-Superbe-20-francs-or-gold-Coq-1914-/371170136003?pt=FR_GW_Monnaies_Pi%C3%A8cesFrancs&hash=item566b76cfc3

[Keithoil]

I am tempted but I just like my sovereigns to much.

 

EDIT: That said it is 22k gold.

[HighlandTiger]

I had to smile at the descriptions of the top auction and bottom auction from the French Ebay site, courtesy of the automatic Google translate. He's some man that Napoleon fella. 

 

 

 

[BaldyBob]

@Madhatter........like that perseverance

[Paul]

i think it would be nice to get a mix of a few of these small gold coins from around the world franc (france), sov (UK), rand (SA) ducat & coronas (austria), you also have the pahlevi (iran) rouble (russia) peso (mexico). Maybe for me down the line ill do that

 

not having a stack of each but one of each would be nice & would break the bank. Gold is gold after all them

 

Just make sure to label them with what they are, crt, weight, fine gold content, price paid etc

 

Possible resell privately may be a little bit of sticky issue however.

This is where uk sovereigns are great - oldest know bullion coin in the world & more or less universal design etc

[morezone]

i think it would be nice to get a mix of a few of these small gold coins from around the world franc (france), sov (UK), rand (SA) ducat & coronas (austria), you also have the pahlevi (iran) rouble (russia) peso (mexico). Maybe for me down the line ill do that

not having a stack of each but one of each would be nice & would break the bank. Gold is gold after all them

Just make sure to label them with what they are, crt, weight, fine gold content, price paid etc

Possible resell privately may be a little bit of sticky issue however.

This is where uk sovereigns are great - oldest know bullion coin in the world & more or less universal design etc

That's what I've started to do. Not that I want to because I'm collecting too many lines as it is but I just can't help myself. I love the variety in collecting. I'm going to try and keep it to fractionals under a quarter.

[HighlandTiger]

3 x Gold 20FF. 

 

Only 97 more to go................