Today I Received.....

[richatthecroft]

Nice Sovereign 

[richatthecroft]

Big thankyou to @pho for this glorious Libertad set and also very pleased with my purchase from Atkinsons of the 1/10 Britannia.  

[Pipers]

I have just received 3 jubilee head sovereigns from chards very nice

I have to say the service is very good again.

 

[Norskgeld]

1915 George V Half Sovereign from HGM

 

[Pragmatist]

3 hours ago, Pipers said:

I have just received 3 jubilee head sovereigns from chards very nice

I have to say the service is very good again.

 

Always had good service from Chards.

[CadmiumGreen]

1902 Edward VII Matt Proof Gold Sovereign arrived today from Baldwin’s.

[Chugnstack]

Just another bullion sovereign. Fairly boring I suppose but such is the nature of day to day stacking.

[sovereignsteve]

7 hours ago, CadmiumGreen said:

1902 Edward VII Matt Proof Gold Sovereign arrived today from Baldwin’s.

would you mind saying how much you paid? The obverse looks well pock-marked for one of these.

[TheGoldSovereign]

On 20/02/2018 at 23:52, sovereignsteve said:

so you're going for an example of each die number regardless of year or a set of all die numbers for all years?????

All die numbers for all years! 

Maybe not 1874!

Edited February 22, 2018 by sg86

[Sovsaver]

54 minutes ago, sg86 said:

All die numbers for all years! 

Maybe not 1874!

Do you have access to a zeppelin hangar, to store them all?

[Sovsaver]

 

1 hour ago, Chugnstack said:

Just another bullion sovereign. Fairly boring I suppose but such is the nature of day to day stacking.

I don’t think that’s boring at all, keep stacking my friend ?

Edited February 22, 2018 by Sovsaver

[JunkBond]

Arrived two days ago but I have had manflu, the wife said "blimey you must be ill, you haven't opened your gold"

1987 proof half sov from Atkinsons.

[JohnA]

21 minutes ago, JunkBond said:

Arrived two days ago but I have had manflu, the wife said "blimey you must be ill, you haven't opened your gold"

1987 proof half sov from Atkinsons.

 

 

I love that. It would be more interesting to collect Sovereigns if they had new designs every year or every other year. I have one 1887. But I am collecting proof Britannias. Silver though. I might pick up some fractional gold if I have extra money. I think there are a few different designs in Sovereigns in some special yers.

[augur]

12 minutes ago, JohnAnsink said:

I think there are a few different designs in Sovereigns in some special years.

1989 (only proof), 2002, 2005, 2012 (bullion unimpressive) and 2017 (only proof)  are the ones to go for but they already have a high premium. Probably best value will be fractional proofs of 2017 at the moment, if someone sells cheapish. 

[Cornishfarmer]

2 hours ago, Chugnstack said:

Just another bullion sovereign. Fairly boring I suppose but such is the nature of day to day stacking.

Would be boring if you paid full price for it........ but not boring because of the story behind it, I hear that a lot of the ‘bargains’ were 2011

[PansPurse]

1889 Jubilee head silver crown:

Somebody has polished the **** out of it  but some lovely detail, especially on the reverse 

[AgD]

Got this through the other day George iv silver crown possibly cleaned at some point but not bad shape for nearly 200 years old 

[MickB]

My Australian silver dragon coin bars arrived today. Nice artwork on the rear although my photo doesn't do it justice. Think I'll pick up a few more of these.

[MikeSol]

A 1902 Half Sovereign Proof? 1889-S 1st Legend and 1887-M Sovereigns

 

[MickB]

Delete.

Edited February 22, 2018 by MickB

[CadmiumGreen]

3 hours ago, sovereignsteve said:

would you mind saying how much you paid? The obverse looks well pock-marked for one of these.

I had paid 550£, with having Marsh for reference as well. The description was toned, some light contact marks on obverse and scuff at rear of horse on reverse, otherwise good extremely fine. I had wanted a matt proof in the collection and this looked as a good start. Here is another photo with slightly different lighting.

[Goldmick]

57 minutes ago, CadmiumGreen said:

I had paid 550£, with having Marsh for reference as well. The description was toned, some light contact marks on obverse and scuff at rear of horse on reverse, otherwise good extremely fine. I had wanted a matt proof in the collection and this looked as a good start. Here is another photo with slightly different lighting.

Try photo without black background can't see the edge properly has a fair few marks on it but I'm not sure about prices for that coin 

[Sovsaver]

Spotted this and quickly decided to add a graded one to the half sov collection. Thanks to one of our superb forum friends.

[JohnA]

1 hour ago, MickB said:

My Australian silver dragon coin bars arrived today. Nice artwork on the rear although my photo doesn't do it justice. Think I'll pick up a few more of these.

I have one...I'm not that impressed with the QA. Mine has a slight flaw on the rim Queen side, not a big deal but I heard other problems. The finish on the Queen side is lackluster too. The Dragon side much better. Hopefully they will improve production.

[MickB]

29 minutes ago, JohnAnsink said:

I have one...I'm not that impressed with the QA. Mine has a slight flaw on the rim Queen side, not a big deal but I heard other problems. The finish on the Queen side is lackluster too. The Dragon side much better. Hopefully they will improve production.

Just had a closer inspection of mine and the Queens side appears to have a yellowish tone. Didn't notice it at first and it doesn't clean off either.

Also my Perth Mint kangaroo 1oz silver bars appear to have the same that I bought a while back. Need to catch it in a certain light to see it. At least they're not proofs 

Edited February 22, 2018 by MickB