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999magnum reacted to Sal in USA & Canadian Coins Thread
Another one of my first collected coins. Toning well in my closet for a long time.
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999magnum reacted to Sal in USA & Canadian Coins Thread
One of first coins I collected over 30 years ago.
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999magnum got a reaction from Pete in The Queen's Beasts, or why was I on a hiatus?
You and a thousand other people. In the odd chance you haven't checked ebay for sold prices, well, check ebay, and you should get all your answers.
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999magnum reacted to KevinFlynn in The Queen's Beasts, or why was I on a hiatus?
Greetings everyone,
I am a returning precious metal stacker and I discovered the very interesting Queen's Beast series.
Within my world of precious metal stacking I classify these as 'bullion coins with collector's value' and given the rise in price that I see that is true. Now I'm very rational where my gold is concerned, but I'm always willing to invest into shiny things in silver. Gold is still a major investment for me and I rather keep it in safe one ounce standard coins, deep within my safety deposit box. Silver however is well within my impulse buy range and so I do allow myself some adventures and speculation.
In addition to that I am a huge fan of british history so where the Queen's Beasts are concerned, my heart is calling out to the collector in me - sadly I'm in three years late, and the price for some of the first coins has risen a lot. I also like the two ounce weight, which is a nice change from the usual one ouncers. It reminds me of the very haptic feeling of discovering my first one pound coins back in London in 1987, which clearly blew our thin Deutsche Mark coins out of the water...
I am disgressing, please just bear with me...
So what are my thoughts?
I have the growing feeling of wanting a whole set of the collection, which would make me pay the added collector's premium on the coins I missed. Hurtful, especially for the lion. Actually I would want even more than one full set, as maybe a set would fetch a much higher price in a couple of years than indivual sought after coins. Though depending on the price, I would even part with my personal collector's set. This would not neccesarily be part of my permastack.
I would want to get a good number of the respective current coin to be able to flip them as soon as the price is getting higher. I realize that not all coins in this series are equally sought after, but the overall premium over spot is not that bad (say, compared to buying silver bars with 19% VAT), and I would not mind to keep these in my stack otherwise.
I would want to get a large number of the White Horse of Hannover, as I am from Hannover by birth and these would make especially nice presents to other Hannoverians. I already located suitable coin capsules of which I would order a lot, even though I would want to buy coins by the tube.
To disgress some more, I usually like to make my bulk bullion purchases anonymously as a Tafelgeschäft, directly at a shop. With collector's items, I am running into the dilemma that that is not always possible. So with collector's bullion I decided to do it the other way round and buy these under my name online. The added effect is I would have a supposed collector's hobby as a front if the state one day comes knocking at my door to confiscate my gold (I will go back onto my psychiatrist's couch now...).
Thanks for reading
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999magnum reacted to Lindeman in Libertad Photo Thread...
Some gold 1/10 BU libertads and an amazing commemorative 2oz Banco de Mexico aztec calendar coin from 2000.
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999magnum reacted to coinage in USA & Canadian Coins Thread
1937-S Texas Half Dollar Early Commemorative
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999magnum reacted to coinage in USA & Canadian Coins Thread
1936 York Half Dollar Early Commemorative
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999magnum reacted to fehk2001 in 🎅 Christmas Prize Draw 🎅
I am going to use a bot to creat many accounts with different ip address
each account donate a copper round ( without s ) 🙄
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999magnum reacted to mr-dead in Full Stack / Full Collection Photos
Big Bars
Combi-Bars
Tiny Bars
Bullion 1oz ers (apart from a 50 peso + 1 X 1/2 of Britannia)
Proof 1oz QB's
Proof 100g gold panda
2017 proof sovs
Bullion sovs
King Phillip II of Spain gold Escudo cobs (doubloons) from 1556 - 1598
Silver stack
Proof 150g Panda
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999magnum reacted to richatthecroft in Today I Received.....
Thanks to @kneehow2018 for the safe delivery of this beautiful coin.
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999magnum reacted to kimchi in Today I Received.....
I thought nothing could beat the delivery of a Metalor 1kg bar.
Well today has been 3 times the fun!
Courtesy of @Keenstacker (many thanks) my first ever aged/toned bars, oh if only they could talk and tell me their stories!
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999magnum reacted to StackSellRepeat in Today I Received.....
Recently came across this gem, I’ve purchased 100s of poured bars over the years and never have come across anything alike. Poured in 1977 to commemorate lizs silver jubilee, very rarely you see any sort of bars associated with the Queen let alone a poured beauty ? #WELLPLEASED
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999magnum reacted to sixgun in Bars Photo Thread...
A nice JM bar to add to the collection. Proper cooling lines.
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999magnum got a reaction from kimchi in Rwanda - New Series "Nautical Ounce"
Changing labels, switching tracking number stickers...Way too much work for a thief at DHL. Of course there's a possibility that someone at DHL has the means and the time to print labels and research another address, etc etc. For an opportunistic common thief, very unlikely. So this looks like the same scam people have been running over at ebay for a very while now. Sender will use an address near yours so it will show the same city in the tracking info, but of course would never send the contents. So basically the neighbor down the block would receive a package with an old book in it. The tracking would show delivery was made. Anyways I'm sure you all know about this, but for some reason everyone has their kid gloves on when talking about the seller. Anyways to make an already long story shorter, USPS takes photos of every parcel/package/letter that goes thru their facilities, and this is how the scammers have been getting caught. Lots of times it's a thief from the shipping company. Those are easy to tell. The package gets delivered retaped and damaged or the entire package just disappears. Other times the scam starts at the seller's end.
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999magnum got a reaction from kimchi in Rwanda - New Series "Nautical Ounce"
No, just plain nuts!!! ?
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999magnum got a reaction from Sal in Rwanda - New Series "Nautical Ounce"
Changing labels, switching tracking number stickers...Way too much work for a thief at DHL. Of course there's a possibility that someone at DHL has the means and the time to print labels and research another address, etc etc. For an opportunistic common thief, very unlikely. So this looks like the same scam people have been running over at ebay for a very while now. Sender will use an address near yours so it will show the same city in the tracking info, but of course would never send the contents. So basically the neighbor down the block would receive a package with an old book in it. The tracking would show delivery was made. Anyways I'm sure you all know about this, but for some reason everyone has their kid gloves on when talking about the seller. Anyways to make an already long story shorter, USPS takes photos of every parcel/package/letter that goes thru their facilities, and this is how the scammers have been getting caught. Lots of times it's a thief from the shipping company. Those are easy to tell. The package gets delivered retaped and damaged or the entire package just disappears. Other times the scam starts at the seller's end.
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999magnum reacted to MickB in Today I Received.....
Today my 2018 silver Perth swan arrived as well as my 1/4 2015 gold Britannia and a 1 Gram gold bar in the post. Also my stainless steel cannon arrived with some ammo. Looking forward in having a play with this, just need to get some small fireworks to strip for the gunpowder and fuse.