SouthCoastInvestor

I am currently in Mexico City. There are at least three coin shops in the jewellery quarter near the Zocalo. I went a bit crazy, picked up some fractional Mexican coins and some old libertads.  Prices seem comparable to US / eBay.   P.S. the "$" is Pesos, not USD !

 

1975 100 Balboas

 
 

King Canute bar. Didn't get this today, I picked it up at the London Coin Fair earlier this year.  A 2oz hallmarked sterling silver ingot, comes from a John Pinches set from the 1970s I believe.

 

Some silver from today's London Coin Fair

Some gold from today's London Coin Fair.  I got the proof Britannia for bullion price, it has a few marks on it, but really pleased with the price.

Picked this up from a local antiques centre, for a decent price

Picked this up from a local antiques centre, for a decent price

Received Scottsdale KitKat bar from @MrScottsdale
Something I'm going to try and do more often when posting photos on here is to include something common for size comparison so I included a 2p.
Precious metal photos always seem bigger than they actually are in real life to me. It's not a complaint just something I've noticed. My brain can't work it out ha.

Picked this up from a local antiques centre, for a decent price

Picked this up from a local antiques centre, for a decent price

Picked this up from a local antiques centre, for a decent price

Picked this up from a local antiques centre, for a decent price

Picked this up from a local antiques centre, for a decent price

Picked this up from a local antiques centre, for a decent price

Picked this up from a local antiques centre, for a decent price

Nothing too fancy, still awesome to find bullion related to banks in coin form  believe this was minted around 1978-80.
 
 

Today (well, yesterday) I received two boxes of silver building blocks. There are six 1oz blocks in each tobacco-tin style box. They are branded Monarch Precious Metals- I have seen them mentioned on this site before.
As a lifelong fan of Lego, I was slightly disappointed to discover that the silver blocks are a bit smaller than a classic 2x4 studs Lego brick, so they can't interlock with Lego, but they are fun to stack with anyway (they interlock with each other just fine) and I am sure I will never run out of ways to stack them: two 2x4 Lego bricks can be connected together in 24 ways; with three bricks there are 1060 ways; with six bricks there are 915,103,765 ways and the number of combinations of 12 bricks is (currently) incalculable.
Here are a few pictures of the bricks and their discovery by Benny's Space Squad (characters from the recent Lego Movie 2) and their attempt to make off with the bricks before being caught- a tense moment ensues before everyone decides to make friends and that everything is awesome...

A couple of pickups from my local coin shop

A couple of pickups from my local coin shop

A couple of pickups from my local coin shop

A couple of pickups from my local coin shop

A couple of pickups from my local coin shop

A couple of pickups from my local coin shop

A couple of pickups from my local coin shop

A couple of pickups from my local coin shop