Gold coins

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I like this one better too
If only those medalists would learn to render a womans face 

[scottishmoney]

If only those medalists would learn to render a womans face 

At least you can put a bag on her face.

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Ah shoot guys, after you turn off the lights, they all look the same!!!

[Paint Your Wagon]

Ah shoot guys, after you turn off the lights, they all look the same!!!

Ah but at least you can touch and lick the gold ones 

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I bought several weeks ago a coin and got it yesterday . 1.60 ounces at 0.920 purity and 1500 pieces
It is the FIRST ECU ever made 1979 by monnaie de paris of course with certificate and all
I read up some on the ECU and found out I was not aware of the controversies
The ECU started in 1979 with the nine countries depicted on the coin . The ECU only existed in electronic payments between companies .
The french were the first to coin the thing and it seems afterwards every city in France got the right to coin its own ecus and to pay with it in shops .
This controversie whether the ECU was a coin or not lasted supposedly till Belgium coined the 1987 5 ECUS in silver and said expressly it was
a circulating coin . Now they could say that but first the coin costed 10 ecus to buy and virtually nobody would have recognized a silver 5 ecus if they saw one : that is if you were crazy enough to spend a 10 ecus coin as 5 ecus purchasing power .
After that it got more complicated because they switched the name to the Euro and several countries still made ECU coins up to three years after the Euro was instituted . Then came the silver and gold Euro coins . Coins nobody ever is going to spend .
This made me realise the last gold coin meant for spending was probably before 1914 and maybe a lot earlier since the French seemingly started to hoard gold coins from 1852 onwards .
The coin is a marvel since I got it several weeks ago at 90% of melt but that is another story .

[scottishmoney]

Bought a couple of MS grade Saints, for the same price that people are paying for that 2009 garbage.  Age and experience before fallicy.

Like the nude on the front of the Ecu P-O-W

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Bought a couple of MS grade Saints, for the same price that people are paying for that 2009 garbage.  Age and experience before fallicy.

Like the nude on the front of the Ecu P-O-W

I have more MS 64 and higher ST Gaudens then I need or care for since 1999 allready . Also the Coronet type I have more then enough
Yes people are paying ridiculous amounts for coins that are less then 10 years old whereas I got a test piedfort only 99 coins minted Hercules 3 ounces for melt

I am now winding down my buying program since there are like 3 more coins in the mail I got early january and I got my eye on 3 more and then I have
pretty much all I covet apart from a Russian coin that has been eluding me for 5 years now . ( Cannot get it cheap )

If I can get out of some of my goldmines at more then 50% gain I may continue buying melters untill may 2009 . Melters I mean 100 year old 20 Francs Lucky Angels or Napoleon III or old Sovereigns or old Florins
Any exchange agent in Belgium sells those at melt plus 2 %

PS ; The top coin depicted on the reverse of the ECU is the Flemish Lion ( the walloon got a rooster like the french ) and I was amazed to find Danmark amongst the nine founding countries

PS2 ; It seems that in this first version of Europa she left her bull behind .

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I had the flu for a week so I am slowly working my way through the coins
Do not bother to look up this set in Krause cause Krause does not know it exists neither did Krause now the previous set I posted existed
When it comes to collecting special coins Krause gold coins of the World does not seem to know the world outside the US may have much intrest
Their completeness is out of this world .

The certificate of the coin says Liberty is gazing towards the Horizon for possible dangers;  ready to defend 
I am willing to believe that . No serene walking Liberty or 50 pesos angel like Liberty but a ferocious Liberty the way Liberty should be

[scottishmoney]

Looks like the torpedos are ready to launch!

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I have more MS 64 and higher ST Gaudens then I need or care for since 1999 allready . Also the Coronet type I have more then enough

I honestly have no freaking idea how many of them I have, I lost count a long time ago, but you can never have enough, well at least I cannot have enough - so if you tire of them and want them to go to a loving home PLMK.

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I have like three dozen offers to care for my coins in dry environments
But only Seven my pal as an ex coin dealer knows when to bath them in acetone and when to drop them in easiest and when to plunk them in acid
He is even known to have toned them with a gas bunsen burner . And all got slabbed 
For the record : since I was 18 I have never ever used anything but solvents on coins . Before that I shined some with copper polish and found out other people did not like it 

This is the little sister of the set
Scan at 1200 dpi

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I think I got the last missing Marianne coin
This is the Dupré design made 200 years later by Monnaie de Paris of course
I took the risk of buying it on ebay Italy

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Nothing like a fine set of "pointers" on a gold coin.

It is nice knowing EVERYONE knows I offer free and safe storage for all gold and silver coins, regardless of counrty of origin, right here in Indiana!!! Thats the least I can do for all my friends around the world!!!

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It may come as a shock
But acetone will take anything off a gold coin . I mean surface fingerprints and plasticizer and drooling etc
Silver is doomed of course unless you get e*z*est
I have to get me a bottle . I got some cloudy silver and I hate cloudy silver . ( even if i got it for melt )
If I damage the coin beyond salvation I will send it to Indiana for burial
LIke in Stephen King's Pet Semetary 

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Brocéliande ( forest of magic) with the castle of King Arthur Camelot and Merlin guarding Excalibur still stuck in the stone
This is what dreams are made of . And someone with deep pockets ordered this from money the paris and they used their power to make it money
500 were coined in half an ounce of gold and most went to the group commissioning the coin .