Boom! Look at all these sexy shiny coins that were waiting for me today in the mail
What a way to start the day!
But let's take everything from the start!
Good ol @goldrooster put some silver on sale like a month ago and I immediately grabbed the opportunity! He is a really great guy, with really good prices. Honestly, he could have charged more (and I'd still buy) but I think he prefers his silver to go to fellow peeps from #silvergoldstackers who will love it as much as he did rather than making a few extra bucks... Or maybe that's just me being romantic 😅 Who knows, he is a great guy that's for sure!
Anyways, fast forward a month later and this bad boy arrives for me:
Neatly packed inside, a full tube of 1 oz coins
20 shiny pieces 🌝😍💰
Let's play a bit with them before I place back to the tube!
20 x 1 oz coins. That's about 566 grams of pure silver. I guess it will eventually come handy!
Fyi, with today's spot price of 0.73 $ that's about 413 $ worth of melt value.
K, some more photos:
2.5 inches tall! Much like @bitcoinman's 🍆 😂
In case you wonder, these coins are called Guinea Spades and are produced by the East India Company on behalf of St. Helena. They were first issued in 2018, mine are the second generation from 2019.
On one side we have a sexy portrait of Queen Eli (by Raphael Maklouf) and on the other the Spade Guinea design featuring the British Royal Arms. This appeared on Spade Guineas from 1787 - 1799.
As for yhe original guinea, it was a coin, minted in Great Britain between 1663 and 1814, that contained approximately one-quarter of an ounce of gold.
The name came from the Guinea region in West Africa, from where much of the gold used to make the coins was sourced. It was the first English machine-struck gold coin, originally representing a value of 20 shillings in sterling specie, equal to one pound, but rises in the price of gold relative to silver caused the value of the guinea to increase, at times to as high as thirty shillings. source and further reading
Five Guinea coin, obverse, James II, Great Britain, 1688, Public Domain
These are my first guinea coins, actually I hadn't heard of them before like a month ago 😂 And now I have twenty 🎉
If you follow my posts you can see 2024 has started with a bang when it comes to fresh silver.. and there are still some few things I expect to come next week 😅🎉
Ok friends, this is it for today! Hope you enjoyed yet another silver unboxing!
Ok time to place my new shiny babes to the super secret crypt. It will be a while till the see the light of day again!
Stack on!!
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