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Ugh, where to start... I guess I'll get my gold and other coins out of the way. This is all the gold I currently own:  20 Francs, France, 1906   20 Francs, Belgium, 1870   20 Francs, Switzerland, 1927 Silver bullion, here are a few pieces:       The rest, including the above, can be viewed here. All told, a bit over 20 troy ounces of silver and 0.5601 troy ounces of gold. I have a British Monarchs set I'm working on, currently on hiatus as one of my pieces has been languishing in NYC customs for over two months now. Phone call to the USPS to open an investigation solved nothing and told me nothing other than it's at customs. Keep waiting is about all I can do. Until I get that piece in, however, I'm back to Queen Anne in the form of a 1706 Royal Maundy fourpence. Here are a couple of pieces from that set:   2001 Queen Elizabeth II Maundy fourpence (Mintage: 1,132)   1914 King George V Half Crown   1797 King George III Twopence "Cartwheel" (needs a quick acetone bath) Couple of other foreign coins:     One Balboa and Half Balboa, 1931 and 1933, from Panama.   50 Markkaa, 1981, from Finland.   2 Drachmai, 1973, from Greece The oldest coin I have with a date on it:   Double Briquet (Double Patard), 1499, from Holland So lets do some paper money. I have a little bit of Gandhi from India:   500 Rupees The rest can be seen here. Some hyperinflationary money from Zimbabwe:   100 Trillion Dollars I have a bit of a US currency collection going, too, which can be viewed here, with some foreign currency at the end. A few pieces of my US currency:   Series 1929, $20 National Currency Charleston National Bank, Charleston WV Error 404, serial not found.   Series 1928, $10 Gold Certificate PCGS Fine 15   Series 1899, $1, "Black Eagle" Silver Certificate PCGS Fine 15   Series 1928, $1 United States Note A few other silver certificates and a couple more large sized notes are also in the album, along with a HAWAII issue $1 and a North African emergency issue $10 which is neat; it has a blue 10 and a yellow seal. DominusDeus fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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Not much in the way of foreign coins, really. Most of what you see there I've gotten in the last 6-ish months. Mainly just picking up what I think looks neat (I have a second Finnish 50 Markaa on the way, beautifully toned). I have a few ancients I've gotten from the ancient coin thread in SA Mart, and I'm sure I'll be getting more into some foreign stuff, though. There are some Russian coins that look neat that I'll eventually get.
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Mar 17, 2015 03:14
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Accidentally posted this to a wrong thread somehow, so moving it here, where it belongs; Got these two Greek coins in:     Both are 30 Drachmai.
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Mar 28, 2015 05:46
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My second Finnish 50 Markkaa came in.  That toning, though... If it had no design on it, it'd say those were photos of planets.
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Apr 1, 2015 02:45
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Got my order for one in. Gorgeous design.  I kind of hope it's really thin to allow for a larger size surface for the design.
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Apr 25, 2015 23:33
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Yeah, I'm super impressed with the Zombuck series. I also have a 10oz bar of their Prospector design.
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Apr 26, 2015 05:35
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If you were torn whether or not to get one.... doooo iiiiiit:   That thing is  
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May 2, 2015 02:14
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So I have this whole famn damily now; 5 ounce, 1 ounce, ½ ounce, ¼ ounce, and ¹⁄₁₀ ounce. I feel as if I need a 2.5 ounce one, though... and maybe a 1 gram one. DominusDeus fucked around with this message at 06:28 on May 13, 2015 |
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May 13, 2015 06:16
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So I got this [ obv | rev ] around the end of 2004, and sold it maybe in 2007 and regretted it ever since. Decided to replace it a couple days ago with a not as nice one, but cheapest I could find and be sure of:   
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May 23, 2015 11:05
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Couple more pieces of silver in:     
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May 26, 2015 06:34
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One of the most heavily counterfeited US coins, sadly. They're also not cheap, at all. Mine cost $175. The one I had in 2004 was $150 when I got it.
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May 26, 2015 09:27
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While not as old, two more coins to add:   1897 Mexican 8 Reales   1696 British King William III Crown [edit] Two more to add instead of a new reply:     That black holder is awesome.  
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Jun 4, 2015 16:05
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Some more silver in, and more on the way:   Picked up four SBSS Slave Queen rounds.   Mintage of 5000 on the Lighthouse. [edit] Bonus macro A, bonus macro B. DominusDeus fucked around with this message at 13:39 on Jun 15, 2015 |
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Jun 15, 2015 11:45
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So... some more silver. Australian Funnel-Web Spider   Chinese Panda   Armenian Noah's Ark   Fiji Taku   plz halp.
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Jun 22, 2015 14:32
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My three most recent pickups (I have a fourth, forgot to photograph it...):   King Edward I Penny (Long Cross) 1279-1307 London Mint Obverse: EDW R ANGL DNS HYB (Edward King of England Lord of Ireland) Reverse: CIVITAS LONDON (City of London) [img]http://i.imgur.com/5wdEK1ym.jpg][/img][img]http://i.imgur.com/6uTF2icm.jpg][/img] 1671 Half Crown, King Charles II   1857 (mdccclvii) Florin, Queen Victoria, Gothic style [edit to add the one I forgot to photograph:]   Mintage: 2697/8500 DominusDeus fucked around with this message at 10:43 on Jul 12, 2015 |
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Jul 11, 2015 22:44
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Speaking of paper money, picked this up: [img]http://i.imgur.com/N4Ai7VKl.jpg[/img] 
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Jul 27, 2015 00:05
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Average circulation silver certs go for about $1.50-3.00 each.
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Jul 27, 2015 07:47
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Star notes can be worth quite a bit. It really depends on the condition of the bill, what district the note is from, how many were made for that district. A bunch of variables, really. I keep them simply because you don't see them often. And your silver cert still could be worth a lot more than that star note $10, especially if it's a 1934 one, is a star note, or a 1935-A yellow seal. As for British coins... I'm working on a Monarchs type set.
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Jul 28, 2015 10:08
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Would've accepted it, but I already have a $10 star note, albeit of the previous design.
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Jul 28, 2015 11:11
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Money clip, maybe?
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Aug 3, 2015 10:36
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How about making it into a ring, then re-artificially toning it (probably in the oven)? Some new silver, and my 4th piece of gold:     Up to 0.7955 troy ounces of gold, 0.2045 ounces to go. Thinking of splitting it between two more coins, possibly a Hungary 10 Korona and a Germany, Prussia 10 Mark. That would give me 1.0087 troy ounces. Just a matter of finding those two coins for as close to spot as I can. [edit] Probably go with a 1/10 Krugerrand and an Austria 1 Ducat. Those seem to be the cheapest and would give me a total of 1.0061 troy ounce. DominusDeus fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Aug 4, 2015 |
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Aug 4, 2015 01:18
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Air-Tites, Kointains, Saflips. Some new purchases; some silver:  1 troy ounce poured bar   Provident Metals' second Privateer 2 ounce round   Goooooold. Birth year (pure luck) South African tenth ounce Krugerrand.
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Aug 15, 2015 11:48
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ColdPie posted:This is really freakin' cool. I love these super old coins. Thanks. I got these two Henry III cut pennies from Xenopus:     Have added these to my stuff since last post:   1935-A $1 Silver Certificate, North African emergency issue. Taste the rainbow:  A few bits of silver:   1958 Canadian "Death" Dollar   2015 Rwanda, "African Ounce" Cape Buffalo, 50 Francs   Rand Paul silver round (I liked the reverse design...)   Satosan Metals "Asahi" silver round. And a new piece of gold:   1915 Austria 1 Ducat (re-strike). Giving me my first troy ounce, weighing in at 1.0062 troy ounces:  
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Sep 13, 2015 03:03
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Sesquiculus posted:
[heavy breathing] Had this for a few years, but never took a photo of it:   And just got this in:   Mintage limit of 5000, mine is numbered 0053 DominusDeus fucked around with this message at 12:46 on Sep 19, 2015 |
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Sep 19, 2015 07:30
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Some more things, and more things still on the way:      A few bits of 1956.   2 ounce Cleopatra.   1 ounce Freedom girl   1 ounce .45 ACP silver bullet   1 ounce 2016 Australian Kangaroo  That microstamp security feature, tho...
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Oct 9, 2015 06:54
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Sesquiculus posted:That's pretty cool. How did you manage to get a picture of that? Sesquiculus posted:And one Greek coin: I need dis. Plus that piece of Japanese silver. Can probably afford neither.
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Oct 10, 2015 23:47
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Sesquiculus posted:They didn't set me back as much as you might think - I picked up the hemidrachm for $170 and the ichibu for $35. I was particularly happy with the hemidrachm because every other example I could find went for double that or more. Well, that's not too bad, then, especially the Japanese piece.
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Oct 11, 2015 20:53
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Hooray! More things.  2013, 20th Anniversary Canadian Maple Leaf   "The Saint" Zombuck, final design.    American Landmarks 2oz round, Liberty Island  2oz Silver Bullet, .308 (7.62×51mm NATO) 1oz silver bullet, .45 ACP
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Oct 14, 2015 04:22
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Added a 3 Rubles silver ounce from Russia. Got it in this morning and love it.  Sesquiculus, jelly of some of them pieces...
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Oct 20, 2015 15:54
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I need a Victoria sovereign in my life.
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Oct 29, 2015 16:02
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Some new stuff... First, new note for my currency collection:   Series 1934 Hundred Dollars, low serial number Now for the coins:    2016 Somali Elephant (with bonus die crack)   2016 Niue Year of the Monkey   2016 Australia Year of the Monkey   2016 Canadian Maple Leaf (Wolf privy)   2013 Ukranian Archangel Michael (Fabulous 15 privy)     2015 Tanzania/Zanzibar Vera Silver   2015 Isle of Man Penny Black   1916 France 10 Centimes And a coin type I've been wanting for a good 20 years:   1875-S Twenty Cent piece. DominusDeus fucked around with this message at 14:13 on Nov 24, 2015 |
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Nov 23, 2015 14:36
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Ugh, I'm sorry Aggro. I could tolerate selling most of my stack since I've only worked on that since early 2015, but I'd be devastated if I had to part with my coin and currency collection; I've been working on that since I was a kid.
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So, um... a few new things since last post....  Series of 1928 A, Fifty Dollars.   Series of 1917, Two Dollars.   1000 Won from South Korea, from 1950.   Japan, Ibaraki Prefecture, 47 Prefectures Series 2009, 1000 Yen, 1 Troy Ounce silver   Australia, Wedge-Tailed Eagle 2016, One Dollar, 1 Troy Ounce silver   Australia, Lunar Dragon 2012, Two Dollars, 2 Troy Ounces silver   Australia, Kookaburra 2016, One Dollar, 1 Troy Ounce silver   Republic of Congo, African Lion 2016, 5000 Francs, 1 Troy Ounce silver   Canada, Superleaf 2016, Eight Dollars, 1.5 Troy Ounces silver   United Kingdom,Britannia 2016, Two Pounds, 1 Troy Ounce silver   China, Chinese Panda 2016, 10 Yuan, 30 grams (0.9645 Troy Ounce) silver   Rwanda, African Ounce: Antelope 2014, 50 Amafaranga, 1 Troy Ounce silver   Rwanda, African Ounce: Meerkat 2016, 50 Amafaranga, 1 Troy Ounce silver   2015, Christmas Snowflake, 1 Troy Ounce silver   Privateer 3 silver round, 2 Troy Ounces silver   Austria Maria Theresa Thaler, 1780X re-strike. They've been re-struck from 14 or more different mints nearly continuously since 1781. Hundreds of millions available. Newer ones are about $20 shipped. 83.3% silver, and contain 0.752 troy ounce silver.   2015, 5 Cedis, Ghana Silver Gorilla (to rustle some Jimmies), 1 troy ounce silver.   2016, Silver American Eagle, 1 troy ounce silver.   2016, Silver Canadian Maple Leaf, Tank privy, 1 troy ounce silver.   Royal Mint Refinery, 1 troy ounce silver round.   Elemetal bar, 1 troy ounce silver bar And filling some holes in my Dansco 7070 album:   1913 Buffalo Nickel, Type 1   1875-CC Seated Liberty Dime, Carson City mint (my first CC coin)   1920 Pilgrim Commemorative Half Dollar   1960-O Seated Liberty Half Dollar.   1863 Indian Head cent. Huge die crack on the reverse, and either a small die crack or a die scratch in the AM of AMERICA. And some other stuff:    1960 Italian 500 Lire. 83.5% silver, giving it a total weight of 0.2953 troy ounce.   1566 Sixpence, Queen Elizabeth I Obverse: ELIZABETH D G ANG FR ET HI REGINA (Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England, France and Ireland) Reverse: POSVI DEV ADIVTOREM MEV (POSUI DEU ADIUTOREM MEU) (I have made God my helper) DominusDeus fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Feb 8, 2016 |
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Brennanite posted:I didn't know the US struck any commemorative coins (that were intended for circulation) besides the bicentennial series. This is pretty cool. We made a bunch between 1892 and 1954, then picked up again in 1982. Some are affordable, some are very not. The most recent for this year are the Mark Twain commemoratives. $5 gold and $1 silver. Pretty sure none of the modern commems (1982-now) were made for circulation. DominusDeus fucked around with this message at 10:08 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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Feb 9, 2016 10:01
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A few new pieces:  2016 Proof Mark Twain commemorative dollar.    2016 Canadian 140th Anniversary of the Library of Parliament commemorative silver 25 dollars.   1/10th Ouunce silver round, 1943 steel war cent design.   Ditto above, but one ounce.   2016 Canadian Cougar, one ounce silver, 5 dollars.   2015 Silverbug Island one ounce silver round.   American Landmarks 2 ounce silver round, Pearl Harbor.   Prospector 1 ounce silver bar.   5 and 10 gram Geiger silver bars.   2014-D Kennedy Half Dollar, 90% silver. 50th Anniversary High Relief. NGC SP69. I have some hyperinflation money coming in from a couple different countries, so that'll be my next update.
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About that time again, but not much new.  50 gram Geiger bar   2016 Australian Koala Burr   Privateer 4, "Kraken" 2 ounce round Retrieved a childhood safe that had a couple pieces of silver in it. Eight Roosevelt dimes and three silver Canadian dimes. One of the Roosies was photo worthy;   1963 toner The Canadian dimes;   King George V, 1911   King George VI, 1949   Queen Elizabeth II, 1962 Those got me interested in getting some older Canadian stuff. I already have an old large cent (which was also in the safe);   King George V, 1917 So I've got a first year issue 10 cent and 5 cent piece (1858), a second year issue 1 cent (1859) on the way, along with a first year issue half cent and cent (1861) from Nova Scotia. Going to pick up the Canadian 20 cent piece, one year issue of 1858, next payday. DominusDeus fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Apr 4, 2016 |
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Oh, hey, updates! So, on the Canadian end of things, I've gotten these in (along with updating my photography a slight bit);  1861, New Brunswick, One Cent, First Year of Issue  1861, Nova Scotia, One Cent, First Year of Issue  1861, Nova Scotia, Half Cent, First Year of Issue  1870, Canada, 50 Cents, First Year of Issue  1870, Canada, 25 Cents, First Year of Issue  1858, Canada, 20 Cents, First (and only) Year of Issue  1858, Canada, 10 Cents, First Year of Issue  1858, Canada, 5 Cents, First Year of Issue  1859 (combo breaker), Canada, One Cents, Second Year of Issue  2016, Canada Maple Leaf, 5 Dollars, Bigfoot Privy And on to non-Canadian stuff:  1 ounce Geiger bar  100 gram Geiger bar  20 gram and 1 gram Geiger bars  SilverTowne Mint 1804 Dollar Replica, 1 ounce  SilverTowne Mint Crown Stacker, 1 ounce Filled a hole in my Dansco 7070 with this:  1853 Seated Liberty Half Dollar With arrows and rays, no motto.  2012, Australian Lunar Dragon, colorized, half ounce  2015, Australia, Battle of the Coral Sea, half ounce commemorative  Tempo era (1830-1844) Japan, Tokugawa Shogunate 100-Mon  2012, China, Lunar Dragon, 30 gram silver oval medal This appears to be from the gold Chinese Panda prestige set.  1948, Mexico, 5 Pesos, Cuauhtémoc, .8680 troy ounce  2016, England, 5 Pounds, Lion of England, 2 troy ounces And there are some banknotes I've not photographed yet. A couple from Yugoslavia (same as Sesquiculus'), a Hungarian 20,000 Forints that goes with my 100 quintillion pengő, and 100 million adópengő notes, a 500,000 Vietnamese đồng note *giggle*, a set of Venezuela bolivar notes, a set of Laotian kip notes, and a 2009 $2 Star Note, New York district (128k printed). [edit] Grabbed this from the Post Office this morning:  Ansei era (1859-1868) Japan, 1 Bu Gin DominusDeus fucked around with this message at 16:06 on May 31, 2016 |
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May 31, 2016 12:29
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Apparently it's been a while or something. Got a flatbed scanner (first I've had in almost 15 years), a copy of VueScan as it bypasses the banknote scanning security (and GIMP will edit the images just fine). VueScan is try-before-you-buy; it just puts its watermark *everywhere* until you purchase it. So I have my entire banknote collection scanned at 800 dpi. Grabbed a couple of nice banknotes over the last few months:  $100 Series 1966 United States Note  $5 Series 1899 Silver Certificate  $5 Series 1914 Federal Reserve Note  $10 Series 1922 Gold Certificate  $1 Series 1896 Silver Certificate Part of the "Educational Series" produced in 1896 Traded/sold about 0.57 ounces of gold for those last two. My large sized US banknote album. My small sized US banknote album. Have added a bunch of foreign banknotes to my collection.  $10 Series 1988 Australian. First circulating polymer banknote for regular issue. The rest of my foreign stuff is in this album. For coinage and bullion:  2016 one ounce Trump Dollar (oh god).  1994 Principality of Sealand, One Dollar  2 ounce Egyptian Gods series, Anubis  2 ounce Privateer series, The Plank  1985 one ounce Halley's Comet silver round  2015 Republic of Congo, one ounce, 5000 Francs silver ounce  2016 one ounce Satosan Metals, Tsukiakari. Mintage: 214/300 (30 are gold plated)  One ounce Asahi silver bar  One ounce Iraqi SCUD Launcher silver bar  2016 two ounces, UK Five Pounds "Griffin of Edward" Queen's Beast  2015 Kazakhstan 1 Tenge Silver Irbis  2017 British Virgin Islands, one dollar Pegasus  2016 Mongolia silver ounce, Genghis Khan, 1000 Tögrög PCGS PR70 DCAM, mintage: 1,000  2016 Mongolia gold half gram, Genghis Khan, 1000 Tögrög PCGS PR70 DCAM, mintage: 5,000 (I cropped the reverse wrong. Oops.)  1974 Monaco, 1.1896 troy ounce, 100 Francs I do not have the setup to catch the monster toning on this thing. This shot from my phone, with the coin tilted in the sunlight will have to do:   1818 United States quarter dollar  1876 Carson City mint, United States dime  1966 Peru, 20 Soles de Oro Commemorative: Battle of Callao 7.97g of .900 fine, 7.173g asw. Mintage: 4,001  1896 Hungary, 1 Korona 5g of .835 fine, 4.175g asw Mintage: 1,000,000  1969 Uraguay, 1,000 Pesos Commemorative: FAO 25g of .900 fine, 22.5g asw. Mintage: 500,000 (teardrop variant)  1982 Cuba, 5 Pesos Commemorative, Hidalgo Don Quijote 0.3854 troy ounce silver Mintage: 7,000  1953 Cuba, 25 Centavos 100th Anniversary of José Martí 0.1808 troy ounce silver  1952 Cuba, 20 Centavos 50th Anniversary of the Republic of Cuba 0.1447 troy ounce silver  Half Crown, King Charles I, 1645-46  Three Pence, King James II, 1687  Half Crown, King William III and Queen Mary II, 1689 DominusDeus fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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You may find https://www.reddit.com/r/PMsForSale of interest. PMs = precious metals. I've done several purchases and sales there. I sold all of my gold there to fund the purchase of a Springfield M1911 Range Officer .45 ACP pistol, and two of the banknotes I posted above (and I got the banknotes from a redditor). I would also try hunting down a Dansco 7070 type set album. They're not made anymore and unfortunately go for quite a bit on eBay.
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Non-PVC plastic flips. Various Dansco albums. Empty "Monster" boxes.. I have my foreign banknotes in these. PCGS slab boxes.
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