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2 Pounds of Gold . . . finally secure in the vaults of Crimmon

MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,053 ✭✭✭
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. . . I think it's a keeper, at least until that fiver can be located.....heck, now I can only afford moldy cheese for the next year!! image


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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,198 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow.

    2 pounds. I suppose the name fits.

    My heart goes pound pound.

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    GarneteyeGarneteye Posts: 1,168
    imageimage WOW
    The glass is half full!
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    cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,333 ✭
    WOW! That is an awesome coin.
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
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    SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,448 ✭✭✭✭
    I bet it looks even better in hand. image
    Dimitri



    myEbay



    DPOTD 3
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    theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    Super!!image
    My Medals collection

    FOR SALE Items
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    trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
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    trozau (troy ounce gold)
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    wybritwybrit Posts: 6,953 ✭✭✭
    Very nice, Mac!! Wow!
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
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    farthingfarthing Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭
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    R.I.P. Wayne, Brad
    Collecting:
    Conder tokens
    19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
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    laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Outstanding! Surely a milestone in your collecting?

    image How many times a day do you look at it?
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
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    newsmannewsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭
    We need a drool emoticon. Until then, this will have to do imageimageimage
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    oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Wowzers!!!!What a beauty!
    Shep
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    trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭


    << <i>We need a drool emoticon. Until then, this will have to do imageimageimage >>



    image The only one I could find.
    trozau (troy ounce gold)
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    pythonpython Posts: 1,158
    What an incredible coin.
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    topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That is a sweetie. But it doesn't LOOK that heavy.

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    P.S. ....Do NOT dump it for a fiver. Get both. The 2 pound is a nice size.

    Nor get a bezel. heh heh
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    MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,053 ✭✭✭
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    I was kidding about dumping it, of course. This piece literally jumped from the auction box into my pocket when I was viewing all those British baubles......I said, "No! No! We must adhere to protocol!" image

    Aside from the 1823 £2 which was way out of my range, this was the Victorian star of the gold section, and I'm extremely pleased it made it's way to "tha wee mus hus".

    I also added an exceptional Jubilee 1/2 sov., so all I need is the £5 and the Sovereign to finish the Jubilee business strike section.....did I say "ALL" image Finding a £5 to match will be well neigh impossible, but who knows?

    Anyway, this £2 just shimmies in the light, largely due to almost entirely unbroken lustre throughout, and it's so totally original it's scary. It has a golden-green patina not unlike the New Orleans Eagles of the US. The darker areas in the fields are semi-prooflike, especially by the date.

    I'll post the other gold bits later..........

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    SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584 ✭
    Tis the nicest one i've EVER seen... and i've seen a fair few.
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    bozboz Posts: 1,405 ✭
    Ohhhh Baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it--James Truslow Adams
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    trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
    Finally found a good drool emoticon:



    << <i>imageimage >>


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    trozau (troy ounce gold)
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    MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,053 ✭✭✭
    I'm glad it's "blue" and not "brown"!!!!! imageimageimageimageimageimage
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    CruziCruzi Posts: 460
    Absolutley Fantastic

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    AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    Spectacular!!!! imageimageimageimage
    Askari



    Come on over ... to The Dark Side! image
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    mrpaseomrpaseo Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭
    Very nice, what is the diameter and thickness of this coin?

    Ray
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    MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,053 ✭✭✭
    The diameter is 28.0 mm, and it weighs 16.0 grams.

    Thickness? About the same as a U.S. Eagle.



    << <i> Outstanding! Surely a milestone in your collecting? >>

    More akin to a millstone, I'd say. image

    Ah, but what a way to go!! image

    Cheers,

    da mus
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    1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    "2 Pounds of Gold . . . finally secure in the vaults of Crimmon" --Dark Mouse

    I was wondering where it disappeared to....image

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
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