Elements

A gigantic leap of faith from modern coins in terms of receiving this 1902 Edward VII Matte Proof Set today.  

Bought from a local dealer.  Photos a little inconsistent, David Bailey I am not.
Thanks to @Elements, @SilverMike & @Roy for the advice and encouragement. 













 

2 years, 4 months, 6 days as a Forum member and investing in PM's I have hit three kilos of Gold milestone now breached 👍
With thanks to the wider Forum 🙂 and The European Mint where I have purchased a large majority of my Queens Beast coins.
I have had to sell large proportion of my Silver and part of my Gold stack to finish off remaining 1oz Gold Queens Beast coins and a special thanks to everyone traded with me/provided help and advice:
@richatthecroft @Gordon @Kritika @Josh @silversky@Bizzle@AlphaBeast@SilverStan@MrScottsdale@kneehow2018@arshimo2012@Jamesd@Rugbyplayer@UKStacker@StackSellRepeat@Darr3nG @Downs523@Gildeon@woody65@Roy@louisfinlay@swanky@Neelam@Elements@db570uk@pyperb@GSTrading@RYAN05@Sharaf@Mox@GavinDevon@Airgead@BackyardBullion@Gabriel13@Jonno@jacksj1@Sparrowlegs4@Munzy247@brya0123@Disentme@newbysilver@Bambi7684@dicker@Airhead@juansanto7@adamthetaller@SilverDrum@Shazzam9@Jayjay@marco88@ram64@MuddyOfCoventry@Piggybank@GoldenEagle@Peet@SJones@Silverman2U@Poppy@DynamitesUK
All coins safely stored in non-banking private safety deposit box. Apologies lighting the photos were taken in the secure storage facility and I had 15 minutes access my safety deposit box due to covid restrictions.
5 oz Gold in Special Year Designs in bullion Britannia's

 
Drum roll please for the main attraction.......
100 oz Gold Queens Beast bullion coins

After a couple of anxious days on hold in customs it has finally arrived.
1838 1/2 Sovereign MS66 
 

Wow just wow
 
lot » https://www.biddr.com/auctions/mdcmonaco/browse?a=1285&l=1362546

some other fantastic coins in this auction too

Wow just wow
 
lot » https://www.biddr.com/auctions/mdcmonaco/browse?a=1285&l=1362546

some other fantastic coins in this auction too

Wow just wow
 
lot » https://www.biddr.com/auctions/mdcmonaco/browse?a=1285&l=1362546

some other fantastic coins in this auction too

Wow just wow
 
lot » https://www.biddr.com/auctions/mdcmonaco/browse?a=1285&l=1362546

some other fantastic coins in this auction too

Wow just wow
 
lot » https://www.biddr.com/auctions/mdcmonaco/browse?a=1285&l=1362546

some other fantastic coins in this auction too

Auctions are going crazy high at the moment but had to get this. Told the misses it was 2k instead of the 5.8k. It was being sold in Swiss Francs so said that was the exchange rate.

It’s not my area of expertise but I found the bbc link interesting, some here are much more knowledgeable
 
 

I will be buying the new stuff, i plan to do something similar for my son. Macallan has much bigger distillery now but also has a much bigger drinker and collector market so i do think the price will still go up. In 30 years a 2020 bottle of Macallen 18 will definitely be worth a lot more than it is today. It won’t be worth more than a bottle from 1990 but i dread to think what they will be worth by then.

🙃 it is getting bigger and bigger

I’m done for a while- so here’s my little lot collected over the last 32 months.  Video rather than photos, hope that’s okay? 
 
 

Got a new lens with the right magnification to photo whole of coin in one shot
 
 

Thanks @Elements for helping me out with this extremely nice 2017i MMTC- PAMP Sovereign. 
 





 

Not the greatest photo of part of my silver stack however I was keen to show off my newly acquired Britannia bars - all 13 of them. I am gradually transitioning to British coins and bars which started last month. I have strict self imposed rules on just purchasing 10oz Brit bars and whole tubes of Brits. If you see me in the trade section purchasing anything outside of these paramiters then please inform a moderator immediately  
Having said all that I am particularly keen on my kilo Monkey king coin. @BackyardBullion did a great video on this coin which I stumbled across the other day. 

My attempt at a full stack picture

I joined this forum a month ago with one ounce of silver...🤣

Full stack as of today. Missing a few things still in the collection but slowly getting there.

My full stack of casino silver strikes, these contain 16gram .999 with a brass outer rim. 

For anyone interested in these www.silverstrikers.com is a database dedicated to these. (not affiliated) 

Nice @Drdandoom

Congrats @Troy77 

The 2018 half sovereign that went through the Trial of the Pyx. 

Photographs removed as all coins sold.
 

Deep or ultra cameo are rare designations for the 1911 proof half. This is a 65DCAM