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  • MesquiteMesquite Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭
    Bought a 31.1g (1 oz), 20g, 10g, 5g, 2.5g, and 1g of the PAMP.
    Could not pass on the Perth Mint.

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    There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
    –John Adams, 1826
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,263 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We are now stocking those Perth Mint pieces in the one ounce size. Neat looking!
    TD
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    I like the Perth bar!image
    Avid collector of GSA's.
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    UPS came while I was at lunch image

    So here's all I got to show for this week. 1914 saint out the door @ $1310, and $3.70 in 90%

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    You might have seen the saint--I posted it on the US coin forum asking for grade input. Consensus seems to be AU. I LOVE this coin. 5th smallest mintage in the Saint series at only 95,250 pieces, which averaged about a million and ran as high as 8 million.


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    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 8,828 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's very nice Weiss for the price. image
    Here's my meager haul this week.
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    Click on this link to see my ebay listings.

  • MesquiteMesquite Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭
    I think this qualifies. Beautiful design.

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    A reproduction of the allegory that appeared on the original 1935 $500 bank note. At a time when so many new coin releases exhibit such uninspired design, we can across this incredible beauty being offered by the Canadian Mint in a Limited Mintage of 200 pieces.

    Perhaps we have just “classical” taste for the rich allegorical figures of yesteryear which seems to impart an importance to the design, or it may be that the “clip art” mentality exhibited on most modern coins just leaves us cold. In any case, this 5 oz gold just struck a cord, and provides us with a reminder of what exceptional coinage could, and should look like.

    The design is a reproduction of the allegory that appeared on the original 1935 $500 bank note; a seated woman holding a sickle surrounded by the fruits of harvest to symbolize fertility.

    This is the fourth time that the Mint has produced a 5oz gold coin. Previous issues: 2007 – Queen’s 60th Wedding Anniversary, 2008 – 100th Anniversary of the Royal Canadian Mint and 2009 – 150th Ann. of beginning of Construction of Parliament Buildings.

    Theme:
    The Bank of Canada began operating 75 years ago in 1935 and was given responsibility to regulate the country’s money supply and to “promote the economic and financial welfare of Canada.” Accordingly, it was given the exclusive right to issue Canada’s bank notes. On March 11, 1935, the Bank of Canada issued its first series of bank notes.

    The inaugural series of 1935 included denominations of $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 and $1,000. (A $25 note was issued later in 1935 to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V).

    The front of the notes featured a portrait of a member of the royal family or of a former Canadian prime minister while allegorical figures representing Canada’s growing agricultural, industrial and commercial prosperity appeared on the back. Each denomination was available in English or French, a practice that ended with the introduction of bilingual notes in 1937.

    Specifications:

    * Mintage: Limited to 200 coins worldwide
    * Composition: 99.99% pure gold
    * Finish: proof
    * Weight (g): 156.5
    * Diameter (mm): 60.15
    * Edge: serrated
    * Certificate: serialized
    * Face value: $500
    * Artist: Royal Canadian Mint engravers (reverse), Susanna Blunt (obverse)
    There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
    –John Adams, 1826
  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    Mesquite; you got that one on order or wishing? 5oz Au very attractive design!

    Weiss; the 1914 Saint for $150 over spot with that detail was a heck of a pickup! You think she will slab?

    Meltdown; big or small we like to see it all!image

    Participation is what Metal Porn is all about!image
    Avid collector of GSA's.
  • 1970SilverArt1970SilverArt Posts: 482 ✭
    I love to collect silver '70's silver art bars and I will continue to collect '70's silver art bars but I will freely admit that I also like certain Perth Mint gold pieces and maybe one day I might be able to afford to buy a very small amount of Perth Mint gold.

    DISCLAIMER: I am NOT a '70's silver art bar expert but I try my best to play one on the Internet.
  • MesquiteMesquite Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭
    gsa1fan - that one is on the wish list.
    There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
    –John Adams, 1826
  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭


    << <i>gsa1fan - that one is on the wish list. >>



    I think it just made mine too!image We do no see rare Canada coins down south much.
    Avid collector of GSA's.
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    i like the perth bar to. image
  • CiccioCiccio Posts: 1,405 ✭
    I want a Perth bar too! Beautiful gold guys!
    Just wondering what's that green rug gsa1fan always uses to lay down his coins! image

    I spent another week trying to add gold...but ending up buying silver!
    My german mother in law is with us and I thought I should pay tribute to her.

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  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Just wondering what's that green rug gsa1fan always uses to lay down his coins! image >>




    image a 30 year old worn out bath towel!
    Avid collector of GSA's.
  • tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
    mesquite
    Great looking coin. I was all pumped to go on to the Canadian mints web site to purchase one. Then bummed after I read your description stating it is a 5 oz. Too much for me.
    I collect Canadian currency and would of loved to add this to my collection. Can't afford the $500 bill either
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    Weiss; the 1914 Saint for $150 over spot with that detail was a heck of a pickup! You think she will slab?

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    Bought her at $1220 an ounce, so I think she was closer to $130 over. I'm pretty confident that she would slab, but I don't think I'll do it. Well, maybe. Who knows image
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,411 ✭✭✭✭✭
    it's metal, it's very porn.....



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  • AgBloxAgBlox Posts: 744 ✭✭
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  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,411 ✭✭✭✭✭
    the Jelly Belly makes it! Nice pic!!

  • MesquiteMesquite Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭
    Wow, at $1800/oz that Canada gold is not likely to come off my wish list anytime soon.image
    There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
    –John Adams, 1826
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭


    << <i>it's metal, it's very porn.....



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    I'm into porn too...more, MORE!!!

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