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Sitting in the sunshine gazing at this little beauty thanks to @BullionBob

Received this little beauty today. Was sold as bullion but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t a proof issue. Has beautiful fields and cameo.

 
 

Big thanks to @StackSellRepeat and @TavexBullion for today's arrivals. 

Thank you @entsor for very fast delivery. This one going to friends as part of their wedding gift in May. Still lots of temptations on that particular trade listing for anyone who hasn’t seen it.

This monster arrived. Thanks @Rat 😀

Another PF 70 Yale arrived today, my favourite design of the Queen's beasts series. Thanks  @SilverMike

To make up for yesterday's calamity, another 2005 Sovereign to add to the collection. A recent arrival was also this Royal Mint Sovereign box. Well made, nice finish and removable tray to store other bits should you need too. Thanks to @ilovesilverireallydo for the Sov 👍

From @modofantasma

1885 S PCGS  ms62 Sov
Off to NGC for conservation and cross grade 
 

Mail delivery today was this very nice AU beauty from @Tozer. Much appreciated!

I guess when you've got the first you kinda have to get the 2nd, 25 films 🙈 could be expensive 

Finally received mine after order mix-up with The Royal Mint…

Small addition to the stack. 4 oz of gold and 63 oz of silver

Silver Lunar Tiger 2022….
 

Been busy but finally got around to unboxing recent purchases before chucking them (gently) in the vault. I think I'm up to date with feedback but if not, message me 👍🏽 



Crowns and sovs on the menu recently. 

Just gave my son this one. There are cards, way more expensive, than this one. I don't get it, but my son is happy, so me too. 

Received yesterday, a 1997 Golden Wedding Anniversary Crown, this one I had marked off my list, but I actually didn’t have one!  
The Churchill is another welcome addition and the Victoria 200th Anniversary Piedfort will sit next to my existing £5 and the Alfred £5 will join Alfred’s larger Piedfort Brother.
Getting near the target of a run of Decimal Elizabeth II £5 Silver Proof Crowns from 1972- just 7 more individual coins to go,  for the run of the 83 I have chosen to collect.
Here’s the 7 left to collect:
 





 

Here is my 2022 SotD Sovereign from @ChardsCoinandBullionDealer.  It is gorgeous!  Thanks again to @LawrenceChard.

The last PM Lunar coins, i collect. Not really happy with the design. A tiger should look strong, not cute. But still, nice chunky 5 OZ with a tiny mintage of 388 

£500 "Mystery" Jamboree Bag Courtesy of James32   For the inquisitive/nosey buggers out there, the outcome was favourable - a very fair deal, apart from the bloody monkey.  

Finally took the plunge on a coin that I’ve long been wanting to add to the collection.
1862 India Mohur



 

Found this today, go in the collection 

Got this today, anyone any ideas what it is? Thank you

Soemthing very special 
Brazil José I 1752 Peça of 6,400 Reis Broken 1, ex Clive of India Treasure
Brazil, José I (1750-77), gold Peca of 6,400 Reis, 1752, R mint mark for Rio, laureate and draped bust right, R. mint letter over date below, 2 of date doubled, legend and toothed border surrounding, JOSEPHUS. I. D. G. PORT. ET. ALG. REX, rev. crowned shield of arms within ornate frame, edge engrailed, weight 14.50g (cf. Gomes 43.02; Fr.65). With a matt tone from being in saltwater, intriguing to think the coin has been to the bottom of the sea and back with the shipwreck provenance.   The obverse legend translates as "Jose the First, by the grace of God, King of Portugal and the Algarves" In 1755 Captain Robert Clive (1725-74), the decorated military hero of the British Navy, decided after a brief stint as a politician, that he was ready for a return to India where he had made his fortune. Packing up by his estimation some £3,000 worth of gold coins in a chest marked "R.C." with his belongings, he and his wife tried to book passage on the ship Dodington where the cargo was accepted. However, a cabin was not available so Clive and his wife booked themselves on to the alternative ship Stretham. "One chest of gold marked R.C." is recorded on the Dodington manifest as weighing 653 ounces and 6 pennyweights and was the only gold recorded as being carried upon this ship and the two ships with several others set sail from England on 22nd April 1755. The Dodington was the more efficient ship of the group and pulled ahead of the others on the long voyage to India south down the Atlantic and around the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean, and lost sight of them by the end of May. Unfortunately the Captain of the Dodington following inefficient charts turned from an easterly bearing to a east-north-east too early and ended up on a collision course for rock and reefs of what was then called Chaos Island which is Bird Island today in the Indian Ocean. Stormy weather was encountered further hiding the breakers over the reefs until too late on the 17th July 1755 when the ship was wrecked within a mile of the shore at Bird Island and smashed to pieces within a twenty minute period. Only 23 of the 270 people on board survived to make the shore. The other ships following on the correct course, were oblivious to the fate of the Dodington and sailed on safely to Bombay, meanwhile the 23 survivors of the wreck made best they could to live on the island using much of the wreckage to shelter and eventually build a small vessel on which they could escape the island. They also managed to recover a "chest of treasure" and also one of "wrought plate" but both of these were not associated with Clive and nor were they gold, and his gold treasure was assumed lost for good. The survivors christened their boat "Happy Deliverance" and by the 20th April 1756 arrived in Mozambique after nine months of not seeing anybody else. They then sailed on to India successfully where news of their survival and what happened soon made headline news in London. The treasure was not eventually salvaged until the 1990s and the auction at Spink in 2000 contained over 800 Brazilian and Portuguese gold coins recovered from the wreck of the Dodington. South American gold coins minted from the rich bounty of gold deposits there were flowing as coin across to Portugal and then at the rate of as much as two million pounds a year into England from the illicit trade between Lisbon and London as evidenced by contemporary sets of coin weights for weighing gold coins that always had weights for Portuguese coins at this period, and hence why Clive possessed such gold coins for overseas trade. Clive went on to become "Clive of India" as the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency. This coin is one of 62 pieces of this date in the treasure.   Provenance: Ex The Clive of India Treasure, Spink Coin Auction 143, 28th September 2000, lot 264 with original lot card and certificate issued by Spink.