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1925 D   2.5 $

1925 D   2.5 $

1925 D   2.5 $

I’ll have a good go at responding to the OP.

I come from what I would describe as normal working class family, parents divorced when i was 4, had a single parent household for a few years and then parents met partners/re married when i was around 10/11. Looking back we were poor, especially before my mum re married but to be honest everyone i knew was in a similar position and we weren’t any worse off for it.
My perception of wealth (I remember it well) would be going around someones house that was just nice. Thats it. Nice. Litterally a 2 up 2 down on a rough street, but if they had matching carpets and doors that shut and matched, ok furniture and matching cutlery i thought they were rich.
My main focus when leaving school was basically get to work, get a trade, start earning and get into property. The only people i knew with nice houses and money were tradesmen! I wasn’t really aware of high flying corporate jobs or people, that was just alien to me and something that someone else did somewhere else.
I got to work and by 22 managed to buy my first house. By 26 i had 5 houses. But i was nackerd (100 hours a week can do that), skint & in debt (5 houses does that), and also had met my current Mrs and just wanted to enjoy life a bit more. My main focus then was to clear the short term debt ie credit cards loans etc I’d put into the houses, but also build a bit of a buffer incase it went tits up.
I’ve always had an interest in gold, but never really understood how, where or what to buy. I kept an eye on the price over the years and when I found myself in the position of being debt free (not including mortgages), with additional passive income i decided time to diversify and buy gold while it’s under £1000 an ounce - I’d learned from my years of keeping an eye on the price this was a good price. I found this forum and it helped me mould a strategy early on and I’ve pretty much stuck to it. I’ve bought on here and all the main dealers. I have just shy of 40oz which i accumulated over a couple of years. I’ve slowed/stopped now as this forum helped me discover another string to my bow - S&S ISA and a SIPP. Pretty much focused on these now and generally just having a diversified portfolio. I look to add to property, gold, ISA and SIPP but all gradually and maintaining a pre determined share. 
 
My perception of wealth has definitely changed, mainly being that often it’s exactly that - a perception. Everything is relative to your own situation and the more i have accumulated in PMs or otherwise the more aware i am that there is always someone else with a bigger pile, so look after your own pile and eventually you’ll be pleasantly suprised at how it can grow.
 

My recent PM purchases:
The five 20€ 2021 silver coins from Germany; the 2021 quarter ounce Noah's Ark; the platinum White Horse; two slabbed and one non-slabbed Sovereign, and a 1978 gold piece from Israel. 

Here's pretty much my full stack as it currently stands.  Mostly gold, but with 30 oz of silver and 2 oz of platinum.
No more additions for me now until next year, when I aim to finish of the Queen's Beasts in 1/4 oz and 1 oz gold bullion and add a 2020 sovereign.  Anything else will be an impulse or value buy!
 

Not strictly today but @PandaCoins hooked me up with these 1gm gold bar capsules that make my orphaned bars much better 😂 and I found a little container they all stack in nicely 

Receive today from Germany   🤩.
Bought a week ago when the price drop by 40$/oz
 

5 lei 1881 90 % silver https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces5742.html


1 leu 1885 83 % silver https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces18311.html


A bit of Romanian history
The coins (and other) laid bury in clay pot for more than 50 years during the communist era.
If you get caught with this in that era you were doing  "hard time"

Just bought online seconds ago

 
in about a week will have in hand and I play with the bar 😋

Tried to get a decent full spread shot, like some of you guys manage to take, but failed miserably.
New camera for Christmas. 🤔
 

Yeah I won 2 last night from Heritage
 

1925 D   2.5 $

My Preciousss!

(Funko Pop vinyl Gollum figure with 2 - NGC PF70UC 2009 UK 5 Sovereign)

Arrived safe and sound

Belgium 20 franc gold
522,310 mintage 

Today I recieved, nothing for me, I ordered these for my daughter and a friend who are collecting the marvel series, I must say the detail on the Deadpool character is better in the flesh than on pictures I saw beforehand on the web.

 
Totally unrelated but I did pick up another large Carcharocles Megalodon tooth, a nice 5.5" one.
 

 

 

Slabbed set of 1/2oz S2 proofs 1st four    mouse -  rabbit incredibly rare & never seen for sale. I was lucky to get all four from a guy in the US.
 

I got my first 2 swiss 20francs in the mail last week and loved them so i decided to splash some cash and went to the local coinshop this morning, this is what i got, 4 vrenelis, 1 helvetia and a napoleon(since there were only 5swiss francs). Sorry for the bad pictures, i prefer a cheap phone and 5 of these instead of an iPhone. 
 

Well today I received what I would say is the most beautiful coin I will ever own and was on the top of my wishlist for a long while.
1917 Mexican gold veinte pesos 15 grams of .900 au.

Big thank you to a forum member for helping to buy this moon cake shaped silver piece.  30g but is a hollow centre to give it size without the weight/price.  Arrived a few days ago but only just had chance to open the package.  A quick check to verify.