'Photo Only Topics' Discussion Thread

[Roy]

Great picture. Not all things are created equal.

Shiny, rippled, dull...

Premium, mass produced, hand poured.

Germany, Switzerland and someone's backyard 

 

I'd like to own them all, but 2 out of 3 ain't bad. 

Edited May 10, 2018 by Roy

[BackyardBullion]

On 16/05/2018 at 18:06, JimmyStack said:

This little gem arrived this morning... looking good!  

Glad it arrived all safe and sound!

[Roy]

It's a shame the 100g is stamped rather than cast.

[richatthecroft]

3 minutes ago, Roy said:

It's a shame the 100g is stamped rather than cast.

Which 100g bar?   

Seriously, I never had thought about all the lettering and numbers on these poured bars were cast individually/uniquely. Thought  they were all stamped? 

 

[Roy]

1 hour ago, richatthecroft said:

Which 100g bar?   

Seriously, I never had thought about all the lettering and numbers on these poured bars were cast individually/uniquely. Thought  they were all stamped? 

 

Crossed lines Rich, the 100g bars are stamped. The bigger ones are cast.

edit: it's the fault of the terminology. The 100g bars are stamped out of sheet, the lettering/numbering on the bigger cast bars is stamped . 

whoops, photo only thread. Sorry mods, kindly remove

Edited May 22, 2018 by Roy

[Xander]

14 minutes ago, shawy2510 said:

I got bored so took some pictures of some Half Sovereign's

Very nice.

[Roy]

Nice selection. The JB portrait doesn't photograph well?

[gazer]

Morning I'm not sure if right place for writing this topic. I have just ordered a 2018 proof gold £2 coin from the Royal mint, it's a Captain Cook only 350 mintage and only for 2018/2019/2020.

I'm unsure if this series will take off but I liked the design, the mintage, not the price so much but hopefully will get the money back in the future. 

Anyone like the coin. Or bad decision, saying that I do like it as said above.

Cheers gazer.

[gazer]

On 06/02/2018 at 15:46, dixiesilvergirl said:

This is really cool who doe this one?

What a beauty. 

[Roy]

16 minutes ago, CadmiumGreen said:

In celebration of 242 years of freedom

Pah! ? ?

Hope y'all have a great day over there!

[SILVERFINGER]

Nice, I would like one of these poured gold bars in either 50g or 100g one day, in the very distant future.

Sh@t sorry for posting this here, please delete it 

Edited August 3, 2018 by SILVERFINGER

[engire]

This weekend I all of a sudden remembered that I had some silver in possession long before I started stacking. It doesn't properly fit in any other categories I think so I put it in this topic. I think it's special enough to share with you all.

It is the first ever silver postage stamp worldwide. There are enough comparable items nowadays, but this was an actual stamp you could use. (could be used for registered mail) It was the last Dutch guilders only stamp (that's why they wanted to make something special). The stamps after this were both in euros and guilders. The value is NLG 12.75 which coverts to 5.70 euros. Nowadays you can find it for less online (from about 5 euros), so wouldn't have been a good investment (like all the other stamps I have...).

• Minted at the Royal Dutch Mint.
• 999 silver
• 21 x 25 x 0,1 mm
• mintage 1 million (not rare at all...)
• Fun exercise: it's 52.5 mm³ or 0.0525 cm³. With the specific weight of 10.5 grams per cm³ that should be 0.55125 grams. So at the current silve price a value of 23.6 eurocents. Put against the original value of 5.70 euros that's a premium of 2,320%. 

The edges are tarnished, probably partly due to me handling it with my fingers (forgive me, I was young). However, what I've seen even the ones in sealed packaging have tarnished on the edges by now.

Edited August 14, 2018 by engire

[silversteve]

is there a poured silver photo only section ?

[Gorseinonboy]

Some of the photographs on here are quite stunning and reflect a real ability with the camera. Perhaps there’s a call for even more creativity in this area.  

Most of the photographs are of fairly traditional designs .....any new ones out there? Perhaps we could have different threads than the traditional Britannia....as much as I truly love and admire this design....?

Edited August 16, 2018 by Gorseinonboy

[shawy2510]

@Goldmick here are the pictures I promised of the Graded Half Sov's I have so far.

 

 

[richatthecroft]

On 15/08/2018 at 17:03, silversteve said:

is there a poured silver photo only section ?

There’s a Silver Bar section:

 

[Kieran95]

2 hours ago, sixgun said:

A couple of Australian bars from ABC and Perth.

 

 

[sixgun]

59 minutes ago, Kieran95 said:

Didn't mean to re post @sixgun wanted to show you this perth

Very nice - nice cooling lines. i think i recognise the bar - did you buy it on the forum?

[Elements]

Neat and tidy

[JunkBond]

Edited September 6, 2018 by JunkBond

[sixgun]

On 06/12/2017 at 03:15, offie said:

 

Those Habsburgs were ugly people.

Here's Charles V - another Habsburg beauty.

[StackSellRepeat]

28 minutes ago, sixgun said:

Those Habsburgs were ugly people.

Here's Charles V - another Habsburg beauty.

That’s what you call a solid chin  

[StackSellRepeat]

1 hour ago, Silversaving said:

Something different aye @SILVERFINGER  if only those bars could run through your fingers  

[FFkook]

11 hours ago, Silversaving said:

Selling one of those? #Guiltypleasure! 

[morezone]

@FFkook @StackSellRepeat If you could keep replies and discussions to the Photo Discussion thread it would be much appreciated.