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Scottsdale 20 KitKat arrived! Metal Porn thread...

ashelandasheland Posts: 23,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

It arrived last night. Sweet bar, worth the premium to have an example... ($18.50 oz) delivered.

Let’s see what you guys got this week!

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,312 ✭✭✭✭✭

    nice score's guys, i like

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,784 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sweet pick-up !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 27, 2019 1:21PM

    Awesome bar!

    Hungry and the first thing I thought of was the chocolate when I read the thread title. Now to find an edible KitKat.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I do like the silver bar and the Scottsdale Lion... I have some of their silver (not bars)...I have the Lion's head one too...Cheers, RickO

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko They have a nice looking logo and products!

    @Hemispherical KitKats are awesome! >:)

  • ChrisH821ChrisH821 Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Jinx86 said:
    I wasn't a buyer this week for myself. My furnace has been running nonstop though. Firing up right away in the morning again.
    Only way premiums on $20's will ever go up is if we keep melting them.

    What's the advantage of melting them? Don't you get melt price either way? I'm a fan of pre-33 gold as bullion because of the convenient sizes and coins' histories.

    Collector, occasional seller

  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ChrisH821 said:

    @Jinx86 said:
    I wasn't a buyer this week for myself. My furnace has been running nonstop though. Firing up right away in the morning again.
    Only way premiums on $20's will ever go up is if we keep melting them.

    What's the advantage of melting them? Don't you get melt price either way? I'm a fan of pre-33 gold as bullion because of the convenient sizes and coins' histories.

    Actually many of the raw pieces are back of melt by 1-3%. By melting everything Im netting 99.5% from my refiner.

    Most of what was melted in this lot was damaged in one way or another. I only brought its tortured life to an end. If I could post a video I would show how quickly it turns to a puddle.

  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MsMorrisine said:
    Melting pre. Is an act of treason.

    Step up and buy 100+ damaged pieces at melt a month.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Jinx86.... I would like to see a video of your coins melting...I have not done that, it would be interesting. Cheers, RickO

  • taxmadtaxmad Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭✭

    @Jinx86 said:

    Actually many of the raw pieces are back of melt by 1-3%. By melting everything Im netting 99.5% from my refiner.

    Why is that? You aren't refining the gold, just changing the shape, so why would the refiner reduce the discount 2X to 6X? At 1% back versus .5%, I wonder if you cover the cost of the fuel to bring your furnace up to temp...

  • WildIdeaWildIdea Posts: 1,877 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don’t think I could melt those eagles but it’s not my gold. If it makes since to you jinx, I say do it. I know a little bit different, but I’m going to melt all these perfectly crafted Franklin mint commemorative coins and use the sterling to cast my own amateur homemade medal with. I know somebody will probably think that’s a shame. I went to my local coin shop and said I need some sterling for my project and he said I got just the right thing and whipped those out. This will cast 2 of my medals.


  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 7,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @WildIdea looks like a sleeve of silver Ritz crackers. :D

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Newp today! :)

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,784 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 1, 2019 9:55AM

    Low mintage coins, I like the 80’s and 90’s pandas.
    I’m probably in them strong, but got them for $50 each.

  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 7,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @asheland Love the variety of your collection of both silver and gold. Nice mix of premium rounds to old poured bars! If ya don’t mind, I may reach out to you and pick your brain about a gold type set I’m starting. Nothing compared to yours, but I want to venture out of gold bullion and into some older gold.

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Downtown1974 said:
    @asheland Love the variety of your collection of both silver and gold. Nice mix of premium rounds to old poured bars! If ya don’t mind, I may reach out to you and pick your brain about a gold type set I’m starting. Nothing compared to yours, but I want to venture out of gold bullion and into some older gold.

    Any time! Just ask, I'm happy to help... :)

  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    Scottsdale 100 grams bars and cast silver tarantula...





    Coin Junky...

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @spirityoda1.... Where is the silver tarantula available? Or was it a one of a kind? Cheers, RickO

  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    @ricko It was bought on Ebay. The seller casts them and then bends them. I will see of I can find it for you. No 2 are the same.

    Coin Junky...

  • MilesWaitsMilesWaits Posts: 5,437 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cool, very cool, high premium

    Now riding the swell in PM's and surf.
  • coinercoiner Posts: 751 ✭✭✭✭

    99.5% on assay. Good luck on that one.

  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    And now I have 6 Scottsdale 100 gram bars... I love these. It feels like pirate treasure.


    Coin Junky...

  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    Here is my own actual silver tarantula to show you it is just a little different... I also collect spiders (not real ones).



    Coin Junky...

  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    My not really spiders collection...








    Coin Junky...

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    Coin Junky...

  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭
    edited March 27, 2021 10:36AM




    Coin Junky...

  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭
    edited March 26, 2021 10:42PM








    Coin Junky...

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @spirityoda1... Now that is something I have never thought of collecting.... Spiders. My wife would be most upset :D .., But now I am intrigued. Might look for a silver one anyway.... (She will get used to it... ;) ). Cheers, RickO

  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    @ricko I also collect some Hot Wheels cars...




    Coin Junky...

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    Coin Junky...

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    Coin Junky...

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @spirityoda1.... Very nice.... I have never collected those. I collect firearms and marbles mainly.... along with coins of course....That consumes the disposable income... ;) Cheers, RickO

  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    @ricko I only have 1 gun Glock 19 Gen5 9mm



    Coin Junky...

  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    I would like to see your Marbles collection.

    Coin Junky...

  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    I also collect cat figurines. I have 3 real cats. They are my kids.




    Coin Junky...

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @spirityoda1.... These are just my Guineas and Cobras.... Many, many, many others. Firearms number close to sixty.
    Cheers, RickO

  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    Those are amazing. Are they Italian glass ?

    Coin Junky...

  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    Do you have more in your marble collection ?

    Coin Junky...

  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    I think I have a large chrome ball bearing around here that could pass a large marble ? lol

    Coin Junky...

  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    @rinko No marbles yet, but I have 1 glass paperweight and other stuff...bismuth crystals and copper nugget and a malachite dish...and a dragon...





    Coin Junky...

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @spirityoda1.... No, they are not Italian glass... they are old marbles, made here in the United States. Yes, I have lots more marbles of different types... all old. Nice Malachite....Mineral crystals are interesting. Cheers, RickO

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