SilverTanner

Freshly back from grading two US pre 1933 coins. One half eagle and one quarter eagle. Great grade on the 1905 but super pleased the 1913 is genuine and not details. The hunt goes on....

 

Wonders of the world 😍 (NFS)
Natural Nevada crystalline silver nuggets 
Raw Congo diamonds (Conflict Free)
Australian crystalline gold (These where panned in Victoria not detected, A lot harder & scarcer to find). 
Canadian platinum nugs/pickers can’t remember which creek they came from 😥
Siberian platinum nug almost a gram have the coa so where 😬
Enjoy & Stay Safe Folks ✌️

These are impressive coins although looking at the top Registry Set and the census decent UNC examples seem to be a bit of a challenge.
https://coins.www.collectors-society.com/registry/coins/SetListing.aspx?PeopleSetID=199234
In my view putting together sets of quality early 20th century silver from lots of places in the world is surprisingly difficult, including Edward VII and George V, and a well worth long term project 
- pity the Napoleonic period was early 19th century as my funds would go much further! Although I may need some 'side projects'

These are impressive coins although looking at the top Registry Set and the census decent UNC examples seem to be a bit of a challenge.
https://coins.www.collectors-society.com/registry/coins/SetListing.aspx?PeopleSetID=199234
In my view putting together sets of quality early 20th century silver from lots of places in the world is surprisingly difficult, including Edward VII and George V, and a well worth long term project 
- pity the Napoleonic period was early 19th century as my funds would go much further! Although I may need some 'side projects'

Been waiting on flips for a few days now so had a pile of smaller silvers ready for 22.5mm flips.
There's a little bit of everything here, some nice Russian and Bulgarian coins including an almost proof looking 1913 50 Stotinki.
Some pre-German empire coins and the strangest and most precise silver quantity coin I own! A .4375 silver content Austrian Kreuzer!
A very nice KGV Australia 6 Pence with very strong detail on both reverse and obverse and some nice toning to it !@SILVERFINGER
A couple of Billon coins (I still count these as silver) Inc a 5 rappen 1873.
And my favourite... and quite topical at the moment coin 😂- a 1915 1 Korona HUNGARY (just noticed not Austria!) coin with stunning rainbow toning. Very hard to capture the extent of this beautiful obverse toning, but although the condition isn't amazing, the toning makes this coin very beautiful to look at.
 

Recieved a very pricey bit of silver! This medal was supplied with Patek Philippe watches on thier 150th anniversery in 1989 - I have not been able to find out if all watches had one or just some models.... Its 35 grams of sterling.. But the silver value is irrelevant in its value as an item in this case... Its two of my obsessions in one package so i had to have it! Plus i know i will never get a Patek watch so this will have to do 

Some of the kilo silver bars we bought a few weeks ago:
 
If we had more time, we could have arranged them into some more imaginative stacks and towers.
Maybe next time!

This arrived in the post today, a British Malaya 20 Cents coin, dated 1943, the coin was only minted in three years, 1939, 1943 and 1945.
This design of coin was first minted in 1939 in .750 silver, 8 million were produced, 
in 1943 the silver content was reduced to .500 and only 5 million were minted,
the last year for the silver coins was 1945 with 8 million minted,  what gets me is that the 20 Cents was the highest denomination that country had, was it a poor country back then ?  postwar there was a 50 Cents coin and after the country became part of Malaysia dollars appeared.
Thats all the silver Malaya coins I wanted now, got a few more coins I am waiting for and bidding on, will have to see how they do.
 

 

 
Size comparison
 

 

Today I received this beautiful set of 1973 Isle of Man sovereign, thank you @InvestInCoins888 ,  I always wanted to have a Isle of Man sovereign, now I have four of them all in different sizes 😍
My favourite is the Quintuple sovereign 💕💕

This truly lovely 1885 Proof of Record half penny. Very rare, as not a proof year. The red / brown lustre is stunning in hand but I just cant capture in the photo’s - sorry. Also awaiting a halfpenny MS64 RB to put along as makes a nice presentation (i think!)

Some new silvers for the folder
ran out of small flips hence why some are unflipped.
First Brazilian, Latvian, Peruvian and Curacao(ian?!) Coins to date! Folder is getting quite heavy.
Some nice old US small ones.
Will be listing plenty of cheap world silvers tonight so stay tuned!

Got this 1kg proof 2018 Kookabura. Only 300 minted. My favorite kook design had to have it.
Hij is mooi hè @Jvw 
 

Today I received a fantastic grading result... More to follow!

Some good news for me, postie finally delivered some items I had been waiting for (still got a lot to come yet), got some capsules for my Malaya silver 5 Cents, got the next size up so that they will also fit the silver 3 pence I want to get eventually, 
Also got this really nice .640 silver Curacao/Netherlands 1/4 Gulden these coins were minted at the Denver mint in the USA (no wonder they look so nice) , they were only minted in 1944 and 1947  with 1.5 million being made in 1944, a shout out to @dicker  , thanks for helping me on this one.
 



 

Here is my entire collection
 
(from the left top)  
1.1811 Napoleon 
2.1815 Louis XVIII   type 1
3.1818 Louis XVIII   type 2
4.1843 Louis Philip
5.1867 Napoleon III later type
6.1875 Belgium Leopold II
7.1880 Hungary  
8.1896 Switzerland  type 1
9.1898 Angel 
10. 1904 Tunisia
11. 1902 Rooster
12. 1925 Switzerland type 2
 
I  started to collect all kinds of 19~ early 20th century  european gold coins since July 2018 , and the LMU coins(20 francs and other denominations) are my favorite.

Here are my LMU gold other than 20 francs
5 francs
1863 5  Napoleon III 
 
10 francs
1859 Napoleon III (without laurel)
1867 Napoleon III (with laurel)
1863 Italian 10 lire
1911 rooster
1946 Lichtenstein
 
40 francs
L' AN 12 Napoleon (pre- emperor)
 
I've just won this coin , but im not sure weather the seller could ship to my country due to the current situation.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Milan-obrenovich-IV-10-serbia-dinara-1882-v-vienna-/283821343177?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=IuQ69OYGFCRZYKWnouZTvWHptrs%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc
 
 
 
 

1860 Bronze collection complete, all in nice condition. 
 
 

I've had a couple where the certificate number was verified but the coin was not on the census - or the other way around, just contact NGC and they usually correct things quickly.
The reason may be that it was recently graded and thus not made it to online census yet, or it was graded a long time ago (in an old holder) and just not been added to the census, or it is just a mistake. Given the number of yours I would guess the former!

Another import from the US of A 🇺🇸, Miami this time...and no customs charge😃.
I have an example of a 1968, but have never seen a ‘Proof Like’ Una Libra before... so ‘had to have it’👍
I can find the coin on the NGC verification page, but cannot find it listed on the census...any ideas as to where It might be recorded would be appreciated.
Mintage 7,307

 

Another collectibles order having come in. One I had to wait over a month for, it took a while before my LCS had the silver proof 2020 Britannias in.
So yeah, one of the 3 coins is a silver proof 2020 Britannia. The other 2 being a silver 2019 Columbia Allegories, and a (ridiculously small 😂) gold 1915 Austrian 1 ducat, because I thought it was cool to have something dated back to the Austrian-Hungarian empire. 🤷‍♂️
 

Congratulations! With a mintage like that it will need grading 😀
I have lost count of the refunds made having been charged the wrong import duty, when you point out they do not know the regulations supported by the appropriate links the refunds are very quick 🙂

Congratulations! With a mintage like that it will need grading 😀
I have lost count of the refunds made having been charged the wrong import duty, when you point out they do not know the regulations supported by the appropriate links the refunds are very quick 🙂

A coin I never thought I would see, let alone own.! After a rather unpleasant bidding war in the early hours, an erroneous VAT bill from our friends at Border Force (claim for a refund already submitted), it has finally arrived from the good old US of A 🇺🇸!
A 1961 Peruvian Una Libra (Sovereign of South America) - why so rare?.      MINTAGE - 402



Its tricky to take good pictures today (really sunny), so these pics were taken putting the coin under water to stop the glare...a first attempt..comments welcomed on another thread maybe!
 
 

Today I received... a fantastic grading result!
37 Modern Proofs submitted | 35 grade 70's and 2 grade 69's. Super pleased that my 2017 4 coin set all graded at 70. Full results attached.

Well this cheered me up a bit among all the doom and gloom in the world at the moment, and it does not take much these days.
This is my British Malaya 5 Cents coin 1945 dated, the photos I took do not do it justice, its a really nice shiny coin but to show the features off I had to angle it a bit away from the light.
These coins were made of 75% silver until 1941 when they started to be made of 50% silver, the coins were made at the Royal Mint in London and the Bombay Mint in India, ones made in India are far rarer and are distinguished by a capital i underneath the word CENTS on the obv.
Production for my coin in 1945 only was a whopping 8.8 million (India mint 4.6 million) , such a lot of coins for what was in essence a colony, I think coin production stopped in 1945, and started up again in 1948 when the coins no longer contained any silver.
 

 

 
 
 
Its tiny and cute, smaller and thinner than a modern 5p