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Walk in......walk out. PR70 Deep Cameo 500th Anniversary 1989 £2 Double Sovereign. Population 5.
1/2, full and double in the collection now. I must say, I think the double shows off the design so much better and has tremendous eye appeal. Of its type, this is as good as it gets. fyi, pcgs uses deep cameo and ngc uses ultra cameo, so in that sense there is a total population of 27 (ngc 22 ultra cameo/pcgs 5 deep cameo)
 

Today my order from GS.be arrived. I think i took pretty good advantage from the low silver price from last week... 

Here you go

1989 500th Anniversary Double Sovereign PF70 Deep Cameo. Only 5 graded Deep Cameo PF70 on the planet  so quite excited about this one.
 
Pick it up Wednesday - that gets me the half, full and double now. The full is a PF69 and the half is PF68 and were both bought raw a few years ago and graded a year or two after, so not unhappy with the gradings I got for them at the time. To have chanced upon a PF70 Deep Cameo as I was surfing some old haunts on the net was a bit of luck and it was a national holiday, so most hunters would have been on holiday, I'd like to think. Will flog a few standard bullion pieces to subsidize and consolidate.

Very nice, I've been watching Ebay  since the SOTD 1817 in (unrealistic) hopes that a sapphire one comes up at a good price 
One seems to have sold for BIN of £795 yesterday 

Today I received....
A strike on the day Sovereign. But not the one that the craze is about at the moment. 22nd July 2015. Only 400 coins of this were made so pretty low mintage.
 



 
 

Today I got 1kg of these lovely coins.
Swedish 2 kronor - with Oscar II as our king back then. They are 80/100 Silver. 31mm, 15g silver each. 

1887 Quintuple Sovereign from HGM

Pickup from@Heisenberg
 

Thought it would be fun to see a selection of proof sovereigns from over the years.
Took 4 as it's difficult to get the lighting even over all of them at once, and somehow managed to get 2 1997s in there Must have thought it was a 1987, eyes getting old

Here direct from the RM my first delivery and I think my first post in "Today I Received.
I love it.  One point of interest the certificate clearly declares BU quality, but the declaration tells you not to handle to avoid spoiling the Proof quality.
I am off to watch the videos now, I'll just check the door is closed............. curtains drawn.  LOL

Recently had the piedfort sovereign very impressed with it

Received back some coins direct from NGC.  Went direct myself so that I have a paper trail for proof of authenticity for when I come to sell.  Counterfeiting is getting better all the time so in 10-20 years it's nice to have the paper work to go with the coins.  I'm keeping the original submission forms, screen shot of NGC site which shows invoice and line items and copy of NGC's emailed PDF invoice which also have invoicing a line items.  All info will match each cert on the slabs.  Adds reassurance to buyers since coins in slabs can't be tested and it's authenticity is reliant on visual inspections against the original.
Main reason for slabbing is to reduce storage space, protect the coins and possibly add value to some.  Saves having to play Tetris when new items are added into storage or when I take things out and have to get it all back in again.  90% of my grading will be proof gold with a select few silver.  For me, I don't feel slabbing silver is economical unless it's a special coin/medal.
Pile of boxes on the left is now reduced to the pile of slabs on the right.  Boxes will be shrink wrapped and labelled (pics of the slabs) for easy identification and matching up in the future and then thrown into a Really Useful Box and put into storage.  The boxes are not needed but I want to keep everything so they can be sold on together with the slab.

The full Sov only got a 69

Expected a 69 for the 3g Temple Panda.

Happy to get 70s for Dragon and Phoenix

Turtle boat was originally a 69 but they recommended conservation and came back a 70.  Kazakhstan Lunar is one of my favorite coins and a 70 is a bonus.

1g 2016 Panda came from a Chards in OMP on release but was cut open for some reason.  I knew they were sold out and never bothered to quiz it since an exchange would not have been possible and I got it for a really good price on pre-order.  Thought I'd throw it in for grading.  Happy with the Berlin Panda at 70.

2016 Temple of Pandas.  69 was pretty much expected with only 20% achieving 70.  Never bothered to inspect them properly when I received them and I can see and issue with the frosting on the bottom left medal.  No wonder they're making such a big deal with the Temple 2 Panda and the high number of 70s which have come back (to the Sponsor).  We'll have to wait and see if the public also get the same proportion or whether they've been cherry picked.  I already sent back 2 of the 4 I received for replacement.

 
 

Loving my Piedfort sovereign its stunning , but not happy with my second offering from the mint a Queens beast 1oz proof Lion that's going back along with the Unicorn no more proof silver from RM for me.

Got mine today  
what a coin ! 

@mr-dead - let's be honest: that is not a stack. It's a gold mountain?
Respect. 
Thanks to @Numistacker - for getting NGC to relabell my Libertad 2015 as a PF70 - very happy to get it back today. 
 

The herd is back.
Thanks Numi

Cheers Numistacker. Thanks again.

I'm sure we will have plenty of these posts in the next few days.
Received my Piedfort Sovereign.

You can buy gold with fiat and 0% finance?
Next thing you know, you will be able to store things in clouds and money will be in bits!!!
The world is upside down and much wichcraft must be in play

Bu one for me 525 is my limit lol looks well nice hope I'm doing the right thing lol all this month's coin money for me 

Here is some interesting facts about these bars, by the numbers....
The Silver Forum Bars in numbers
Initial mintage: 171
Estimated mintage: 200 (or 250 depending on demand)
Project duration: 2 weeks planning, 7 weeks production
Weight: 1 ozt (min)
Purity: 99.9% Fine Silver
Average weight: 32.5 grams
Lightest bar: 31.12 grams
Heaviest bar: 34.5 grams
x220 bars poured
x5 graphite melting crucibles totalling 85 grams of burnt off graphite
x40 rejected (because of weight or quality)
x180 bars sent for hallmarking
x1 undergone destructive testing
x8 “mint error” bars (miss stamped by me) – bound for the melting pot!
15 individual stamps per bar
Total individual stamps: 2,565
Number of people purchased bars: 76 (so far!)
x7 Gold Premium Members
x40 Premium Members
x29 Standard Members
x7 Countries over 3 continents!
x5 US States & x30 UK Counties
~60,000 cm square of brown wrapping paper
~40 meters of Brown Packaging tape
60,000 cm Square of Bubble wrap
Average distance each bar has travelled by post (including hallmarking): 750 miles
Longest distance to be travelled by any bar: 10,000 miles (to Australia!)

One US auction house labels things as 'metal samples for research' which is true, they just tend to be round and made of silver or gold

Thanks for the tip - I have just found it on their PCGS cert page; ??? only 232 PCGS graded coins with that MS65 grade. Price guide....$5,250.  Cost me £171 delivered. 
Oh the joys of coin collecting.  Well - I will just have to wait until it's safely with me, but this may be my biggest win yet.  Of course - the question is - to keep it, or sell it and convert the $ into gold? Sorry - going off topic and getting ahead of myself.