CosmikDebris

An atkinsons lucky dip sov and some choice sterling bargains!
 

Picked this up for a decent price. Reverse more worn than the Obverse . I thought it's normally the other way 😃  a few bullet holes but what the heck . 

Another one of the list 

2008 Silver Proof Piedfort Definitive Shield   Although the Royal Mint issued its first Piedfort coin - a 20p - in 1982, the only such definitives issued over the ensuing 26 years were minted to commemorate the new sizes of the 5p (1990), 10p (1992) and 50p (1997) coins.   In 2008 the definitive obverse designs switched to the current Shield of Arms format. This Piedfort set was issued along with two conventional thickness sets, one of the shield and one of the outgoing designs.   The penny and tuppence represent the only Piedfort examples of their denominations. The £1 shield was never again released in this thickness over the remaining eight years of the "round pound".   The total and maximum mintage of this collection was 3,000 - just 33 more than the 2009 Piedfort silver Kew Gardens. The set sold out.

Last week I bought this nice 1900 crown.
Suitable for grading, maybe so, maybe not.
I can’t decide....
 

This little beauty came today. Paid the same as a bullion 1/4 Brit so happy days. Tiny little copper spot on the shield but I can look past that quite easily.
Really wish I looked into gold a lot sooner than last year as I would love the full set of these. 

Some nice Perth Mint coins.
1/20 - 1/10 and 1/4oz golden lunar III Mouse 2020 BU
1/10 - 1/4oz lunar III year of the tiger 2022 proofs.
And a silver koala kilo 2018. 

Few sovs and a lump of shiney today

A horse and a bird from @SVcollector

Received this super quick from @arshimo2012 
Key date sov really happy 
 

Today these arrived in the post. A couple of 2020 silver Britannias with Oriental border from Sharps Pixley's mixed date selection. 

I acquired these at the Midland coin fair at the weekend. The hall marks on the sovereign case reveal that it was made by Frank Banks of Birmingham in 1911. Curiously my wife found a six penny saving tube in a rummage box at the Great Central railway gala the week previously. The lettering reads ‘Wireless Licence £1 Savings Bank’. Some ideas just keep going around although my wife’s find was a lot cheaper as it only cost me £1.

Been a while since I added anything interesting to the stack. These LMUS were nice to get to extend my variety. The Swiss one is practically mint state.

Another super rare coin for you today, been working very hard refining my stack
Tunisia 100 francs tiny mintages of 3,000
Beautiful design, breathtaking actually
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces11229.html

I know a kilo silver bar shouldn't be particularly exciting, but I really love the pour lines on this one!

 

Last week I received 
a awesome little graveyard hand poured piece from the talented @Jamesd
and a sharps pixley 1gram gold assayed bar to fill up the never ending pamp box have got the UK, Europe covered now to hunt the rest! haha

First humble small 1937 to get me started - have been waiting for a cameo one for ages, so and to grab this when it came up.
what do you prefer? 63 cameo or 64/65 normal? I think I’d stick with cameo!

That rounds off the young head crowns and a cheeky George vi too.

Just arrived this morning, much better in the flesh.... 

Went to one of the LCS' near my home today and bought a few coins for my U.S. Type Set.
1853 Braided Hair Large Cent, 1889 Liberty Nickel, 1839 Capped Bust Half Dollar reeded edge, and a 1906 Proof Liberty Nickel.  The proof isn't going into my type set album.  I just bought it because I liked it and I don't have any proof coins anywhere near that old.

Royal Mint Plush Blue Velvet Box 2000   Following the worldwide slump in the price of velvet seen in the early 1990s, the Royal Mint - a company known for its attempted Brer Hunt-like cornering of the market in OTC Velvet futures - happened upon the idea of encouraging the purchase of velvet-coated boxes by including complimentary silver coins.   The first stage of what was to become known as The Velvet Revolution was the release of the lesser known "96 Burgundy", a stunning cuboid with a crushed velvet covering which included the seven free silver proof 1996 UK definitive coins from 1p to £1.   The millennium brought the second and, ultimately, final thrust to ramp up the market in the shape of the "2000 Navy". Accompanying this parallelepiped was another freebie, the eight definitive silver proofs from 1p to £2, plus the commemorative ag £5 and a silver proof quadrant set of the four Maundy coins - penny, tuppence, thrupenny bit and groat.   Although stage 1 had seen some success in ensuring a bullish velvet market - even today the 2000 Navy box sells for about three times the price of the 96 Burgundy - the market peaked a short time later, leaving many investors stranded, left high and dry astride yet another tulip bubble.   Today 99% of the world velvet output  is used in the production of handcuffs and in the marginally smaller, albeit considerably more lucrative, market for coronation crowns.    The production of velvet boxes, sadly, ceased in 2019. The last known example, a genuine miniature masterpiece, is believed to have been created to house the testicle(s) of Alexander de Pfeiffel Johnson. They were presented to Carrie Johnson upon the occasion of her self-appointment as British PM.    

Last arrive from USA
 

Diversified starter stack

Most recent acquisition.