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[Chrisplym]

Cheers Richym99. I appreciate your response.

[jenden]

Inspiring Tree of Life. May you be filled with the true Life!

 

[jenden]

Say Hi to hippo from Rwanda.

 

[Foster88]

Part of my collection of George V ‘small head’ type Sovereigns, all except one purchased on the forum in recent weeks.

Here is the 1929 Perth, 1929 South Africa, 1930 Perth, 1931 South Africa and 1932 South Africa.

I also have the 1930 Melbourne and 1930 South Africa (not to hand).

That’s 7 out of 10 and I hope to complete the George V ‘small head’ series by the end of the year.

Edited May 2, 2021 by Foster88

[MrTT]

Some gold from SVcollector. 

[tealcisgod04]

Don't want to spam this thread with my junk silver but I ordered some more rocking horses during the week and this one just blows my mind.  The muscles on the horse, the mottled rubbery skin of the dragon, the beautiful texture in the horse blanket.  George has lost a bit of detail around his hairline but this one really showcases his steely Yul Brynner expression haha!😁

 

Edited May 16, 2021 by tealcisgod04

[LawrenceChard]

On 24/01/2021 at 07:25, Chrisplym said:

 A magnificent seven! 

The Magnificent Seven is a popular marketing theme, although these would be more magnificent in one ounce versions.

This recent photo is of a "set" marketed in 2014 by one of the coin marketing companies.

[Silverman2U]

On 29/04/2021 at 00:52, jenden said:

Inspiring Tree of Life. May you be filled with the true Life!

 

Love these coins. 

[Silverman2U]

On 27/03/2021 at 11:54, richatthecroft said:

Updated 2017 Collection- more 2017's added👍 😉😃

 

 

In the foreground of the photograph above is my 1817 Sovereign.  Not sure which compliments what?  The Set complimenting the 1817 or the 1817 complimenting the Set?

 

 

 

Now that is a nice little collection, something to aim toward thanks for showing. 

 

 

[Silverman2U]

On 30/03/2021 at 09:25, adamthetaller said:

My "Ceilings of Heaven" 2oz set... A nice, short (3) series but could do with a microscope to view the microfilm inserts in their full glory! 

Sweet set! Got one myself. Very unique.

[Richym99]

Recently purchased a 2007 proof full sovereign off @ChardsCoinandBullionDealer and read the description of the changes to the reverse, which makes it another unique sovereign. (2008 they made further changes).  

https://www.chards.co.uk/2007-gold-sovereign-elizabeth-ii-proof-london/303

Thought it would be interesting to offer the comparison they made between the 2000 and 2007 visually.

Edited June 5, 2021 by Richym99

[Bluegeo]

42 minutes ago, Richym99 said:

Recently purchased a 2007 proof full sovereign off LawrenceChard  and read the description of the changes to the reverse, which makes it another unique sovereign. (2008 they made further changes).  

https://www.chards.co.uk/2007-gold-sovereign-elizabeth-ii-proof-london/303

Thought it would be interesting to offer the comparison they made between the 2000 and 2007 visually.

Wow! Amazing attention to detail from Chards in logging only the obvious differences. Pretty damning summary of the engraving too. 

Edited June 5, 2021 by Bluegeo

[morezone]

Yesterday I wasted 2 hours making 2 round trips to pickup and drop back off my QBs from storage.  Up until a few weeks ago I thought my QB collection was complete until they decided to release a completer coin.  I picked one up as well as a compass cutter.  I have a box specifically for the QBs and it only allowed for 10 coins so I was going to cut a new hole for the completer.  I get home all ready to start work and then find out there isn't room in the middle.  If I was to put it in I would have to have it off centre and that would look odd.  Decided to cut 2 holes to make it symmetrical and will have 2 completers in there.  And now I've just noticed that I've put the 1/4 Yale and Falcon back into the wrong slots.  I'll have to remember to fix that when I drop off the other completer.

[Mrpound]

Wow! Very impressive!

[Bullionaire]

35 minutes ago, morezone said:

Yesterday I wasted 2 hours making 2 round trips to pickup and drop back off my QBs from storage.  Up until a few weeks ago I thought my QB collection was complete until they decided to release a completer coin.  I picked one up as well as a compass cutter.  I have a box specifically for the QBs and it only allowed for 10 coins so I was going to cut a new hole for the completer.  I get home all ready to start work and then find out there isn't room in the middle.  If I was to put it in I would have to have it off centre and that would look odd.  Decided to cut 2 holes to make it symmetrical and will have 2 completers in there.  And now I've just noticed that I've put the 1/4 Yale and Falcon back into the wrong slots.  I'll have to remember to fix that when I drop off the other completer.

Looks great!

[iacabu]

Picked up a couple of bars this week. For those who don't know, 1 grain is less than 0.065g, so these really are tiny. 

Certainly not a cost effective way of stacking though 

 

[Foster88]

I’m waiting for this rare 1889 Melbourne mint Jubilee sovereign to arrive early this week.

Graded AU53 by PCGS and rated R3 by Marsh with a relatively small mintage of just 54,652 being the 1st Variety. It is also just one of 15 graded by PCGS.

[Elements]

28 minutes ago, Foster88 said:

I’m waiting for this rare 1889 Melbourne mint Jubilee sovereign to arrive early this week.

Graded AU53 by PCGS and rated R3 by Marsh with a relatively small mintage of just 54,652 being the 1st Variety. It is also just one of 15 graded by PCGS.

 

 

Nice find foster! Down the rabbit hole now trying to find the others!

 

[Foster88]

7 minutes ago, Elements said:

Nice find foster! Down the rabbit hole now trying to find the others!

 

Thanks for sharing this. I’ll have a look.

This is my first Jubilee sovereign, I usually stick with young head, Shield reverse Sovereigns and George V branch mint Sovereigns.

I think I went big on my first Jubilee sovereign.

[Richym99]

Great find Foster. 

[Booky586]

Came across this invoice and thought it was worth sharing.

20 Gillick head sovereigns and a 1oz Krugerrand for a total of £591.49. I'm guessing 1 sovereign was £25 x 20 = £500, leaving the 1oz Krugerrand at £91.49. Those were the days.....

[Yozzer]

I’m guessing that would be priced around £7,640.00 at a rough ball park of today’s prices. No a bad investment

[Foster88]

17 hours ago, Booky586 said:

Came across this invoice and thought it was worth sharing.

20 Gillick head sovereigns and a 1oz Krugerrand for a total of £591.49. I'm guessing 1 sovereign was £25 x 20 = £500, leaving the 1oz Krugerrand at £91.49. Those were the days.....

I looked on The Bank of England website and this is with inflation taken into account. Very interesting.

[Booky586]

1 hour ago, Foster88 said:

I looked on The Bank of England website and this is with inflation taken into account. Very interesting.

It's good to know gold has beaten inflation since 1974. I tried to find a comparison for interest earned in a Bank Account over the same period but couldn't find anything, though I suspect gold would beaten bank interest too.

[Silverman2U]

On 05/06/2021 at 13:35, morezone said:

Yesterday I wasted 2 hours making 2 round trips to pickup and drop back off my QBs from storage.  Up until a few weeks ago I thought my QB collection was complete until they decided to release a completer coin.  I picked one up as well as a compass cutter.  I have a box specifically for the QBs and it only allowed for 10 coins so I was going to cut a new hole for the completer.  I get home all ready to start work and then find out there isn't room in the middle.  If I was to put it in I would have to have it off centre and that would look odd.  Decided to cut 2 holes to make it symmetrical and will have 2 completers in there.  And now I've just noticed that I've put the 1/4 Yale and Falcon back into the wrong slots.  I'll have to remember to fix that when I drop off the other completer.

Nice! Where did you get that box mate! And what do you call that tool that you used to cut the holes.