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WeissWeiss Posts: 9,939 ✭✭✭✭✭
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As much as I'd like to save these for next week...I CAN'T!!! :o

Some of the coolest "bullion" I've ever bought:

1945 Saudi Arabia United Kingdoms Gold 4 Pounds
United States Mint (Philadelphia)
Minted by the US Government to pay for Saudi Arabian oil rights
KM#34
Fineness: 0.9170
Weight: 31.9500 grams
AGW: 0.94195 troy oz

1983 Mexico Libertad
PCGS PR69 DCAM
Mintage: 998

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  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,779 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Oh my! That piece deserves its own thread. How do you follow an act like that?

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,939 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Downtown1974 said:
    Oh my! That piece deserves its own thread. How do you follow an act like that?

    How about with this?

    1950 Peru Gold 100 Soles
    KM231
    NGC MS64 PL
    First year produced. Mintage 1,176.
    Fineness: 0.9000
    Weight: 46.8071g
    AGW: 1.35439387850242oz :o

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  • mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭

    the PL peru gold is beautiful!!!! Love the saudi 4 pounds, make sure to get the 1 pound version so you can have the full set and put them next to each other

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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,659 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Spent an amazing month (and countless Sols) in Peru back in 2003, those designs bring back memories of that trip and the souvenir silver.

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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice haul Weiss! Love the Saudi piece!

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  • mariner67mariner67 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭

    Each is a knockout!
    Thanks for sharing.

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  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I really love the looks of that Sol! ❤️


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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,939 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 24, 2017 7:08AM

    Thanks, guys. I hadn't even gotten the shipping confirmation on these items I'd won at Heritage nearly 2 weeks ago. Then all of the sudden, tracking info appears indicating they'd arrived in my PO Box yesterday. Zipped to the post office and picked 'em up Saturday afternoon and just had time to photograph them before getting back to "real life".

    Love all of them for different reasons. But the Saudi / Philadelphia piece is really neat. NGC and PCGS combined have only graded about 300 of them from a mintage of just 91,000. Saudi Arabia crated them up and sold the gold we'd shipped them at $30 an ounce to India and China, where they got $70 an ounce for it. Much was melted there, some was melted in Saudi to make their own gold coins.

    There are fakes of these out there--the design is pretty simple and the middle-east is where the majority of the high quality real gold but counterfeit US gold coins came from in the 1960s. Stands to reason they could make these, too.

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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,778 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very interesting pieces, thanks :smile:

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Weiss.... Those Saudi coins are great.... looked for them at coin shows for years.. never saw one. The silver coins are gorgeous... I really like art on coins... Cheers, RickO

  • PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭

    @Weiss, Yes You May!
    The "Friday Metal Porn Day" is my favorite here, and I'm sure I speak for many others as well.
    Thanks for sharing.

  • idratherbgardeningidratherbgardening Posts: 131 ✭✭✭

    Love the 4 pound! I bought a 1 pound at the FUN show last year and was fortunate to get a good deal on it.

    And way to step up to the plate on the 1983 Libertad. I was tracking that one. I'm amazed at what those are going for these days.

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,939 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Saudi piece has great geo-political history. It's easy to forget Americans were forbidden to own gold after 1933 except in a few certain circumstances.

    But here was our own government coining gold bullion for another nation, with our symbols, without a stated face value, but with a precise weight and fineness--the very definition of bullion.

    It's pretty crazy. Glad you all enjoy these pieces. :)

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very cool, Weiss!

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