Today I bought.....

[Pampfan]

The new pamp lunar dog silver set - 10gm, 1 ounce, and 100 gram (sample pictures below - hoping to get very low serial number bars)

Edited September 28, 2017 by Pampfan

[daz]

Id be a bit worried if the packaging on the 100g said monkey like on the first pic !

[Pampfan]

5 hours ago, daz said:

Id be a bit worried if the packaging on the 100g said monkey like on the first pic !

These were stock photos - i will post the actual bars when I get them

[airmac]

Grande-Duchesse Charlotte 1963

[Jester]

Managed to pick up two beautiful "As Struck" Edward VII Sixpences.  Can't wait to see what NGC says about these!

1909

1910

[SilverTanner]

2 hours ago, Jester said:

Managed to pick up two beautiful "As Struck" Edward VII Sixpences.  Can't wait to see what NGC says about these!

1909

1910

Very nice, they look great. I guess you went to the right place!

My 1909 is currently at NGC thanks to Numistacker.

[Jester]

2 hours ago, SilverTanner said:

Very nice, they look great. I guess you went to the right place!

My 1909 is currently at NGC thanks to Numistacker.

Thanks so much for the positive feedback SilverTanner. It's definitely a bonus to get a kind word from the Forum's King of 6P!  I look forward to seeing the results from your NGC submission.

[sovereignsteve]

3 hours ago, Jester said:

Forum's King of 6P

It's actually 6d if we're being pedantic, us old timers will remember the old pence well

[Shinus73]

1/4 oz unicorn - was going to buy tomorrow, but figured there may be a little Catalonia price bump overnight.

[augur]

Queens Beast PF70 5oz Silver Lion. It can join my Unicorn, which still needs grading.

Takes a bit the fun out of returning substandard coins to the mint and then hoping for a good grade for the one you keep; but this one cost me less than new from the mint (!)

[PolarPanda]

9 minutes ago, augur said:

Queens Beast PF70 5oz Silver Lion. It can join my Unicorn, which still needs grading.

Takes a bit the fun out of returning substandard coins to the mint and then hoping for a good grade for the one you keep; but this one cost me less than new from the mint (!)

5 OZ? I guess you mean 10 OZ? 

[augur]

The silver proof beasts come in 1oz, 5oz, 10oz and 1kg. 5oz has the same diameter as 10oz, so,  since they are only different in thickness, I stick to the cheaper 5oz. 

 

[augur]

A 2016 proof 1/4 Manx with the 90th Birthday Mintmark on the reverse. 

[augur]

12 minutes ago, shortstack68 said:

Somalian Elephant and a Unicorn.

That favourite dealer of yours is doing quite a turnover with all those ounces he is selling you. 

Do you know when the next ounce is due? He told me end of the month/beginning of the next some more African gold is inbound...

[augur]

20 minutes ago, shortstack68 said:

Only my 2nd purchase from them. He had last week 100 2010 Kangaroos and they are all gone ?

Is that silver high relief or gold coins?

30 minutes ago, shortstack68 said:

If we're talking about the Dog, I hear it'll be around shortly ?

I guess after 100 roos you have a more direct line ?

[zittergie]

Bought two 1/2oz .999 gold Official Belgian Medals minted by the Belgian Royal Mint today.  Just below spot, in original blister.

1) Commemoration of King Baudouin I, Year 1993, mintage 12621 pcs

2) Crowning of King Albert I, Year 1993, mintage 6031 pcs

Also in the same deal 2 times the silver medals (below spot) and 2 times the bronze medals. All in original blister.

Pictures will follow...

BTW: what do you think about coins/medals in blister.  I like the coins far more without the blister, but you lose numismatic value.  For these I paid below spot, so I shouldn't have to worry to much about getting them out of the blisters, but the second piece has same numastic value on top.

Edited October 2, 2017 by zittergie

[PolarPanda]

9 hours ago, augur said:

The silver proof beasts come in 1oz, 5oz, 10oz and 1kg. 5oz has the same diameter as 10oz, so,  since they are only different in thickness, I stick to the cheaper 5oz. 

Aha! Again something i learned! Thank you! Very nice piece by the way! Congratulations!  

[PolarPanda]

Today i bought this beauty! Thanks (again) to my American friend @Jester! 

[Oldun]

Did some reseach as I just sent off a boat load of coins for grading (should be back sometime in December, so I thought I'd do a little research. Went to the ebay store, click add to cart, clicked continue to go to paypal link, clicked continue (having waited to see if i actually really wanted it) and wham, I had bought it ! lol...accidentally wanted and bought it you could say !

 

http://www.weavercoins.com/pro-tect-coin-storage-case-holds-52-pcgs-ngc-anacs-coin-slabs/

Edited October 4, 2017 by Oldun

[vand]

Are there any common or garden variety stackers still around? Or have you all progressed to slabbed numismatic collecting snobs?

I only ask because, well because basic silver is very cheap at the moment, but judging by the posts on this thread nobody gets excited unless it comes in a case and has a mintage in single figures..

 

(I just bought my monthly 20-something ounces of boring silver FWIW).

[oliversw5]

3 minutes ago, vand said:

Are there any common or garden variety stackers still around? Or have you all progressed to slabbed numismatic collecting snobs?

I only ask because, well because basic silver is very cheap at the moment, but judging by the posts on this thread nobody gets excited unless it comes in a case and has a mintage in single figures..

 

(I just bought my monthly 20-something ounces of boring silver FWIW).

I stack and collect. So yes. 

They have different strategies but I aim to have 2500 governmental coins by April.

** Also a lot of people who buy from me buy purely just governmental coins. Some by the coin some by the tube.

Edited October 4, 2017 by oliversw5

[Thelonerangershorse]

Bullion all the way, don't own anything graded.

 

[Oldun]

Might be a good idea to start a new thread on bullion vs graded - the merits and demerits. It'd be a cracking thread I reckon.

Edited October 4, 2017 by Oldun

[reidpj]

7 minutes ago, vand said:

Are there any common or garden variety stackers still around? Or have you all progressed to slabbed numismatic collecting snobs?

I only ask because, well because basic silver is very cheap at the moment, but judging by the posts on this thread nobody gets excited unless it comes in a case and has a mintage in single figures..

 

(I just bought my monthly 20-something ounces of boring silver FWIW).

Buy bullion silver to pay my builder with.  Stack gold, any gold - don't care where it's from; in fact, to tell the truth, I'm a complete slut when it comes to (cheap) gold ?

[Oldun]