Anyone saw the Reddit Silverbug round?

Pirocco

Pirocco

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Maybe an idea for a next stacking operation!
After SilverDoctorsBullion dumped their longs and JP Morgan covered the corresponding shorts! :D
Mintage 10,000.
I recently snipped 20, due to an opportunity that compensated for the higher spot price.
If I have the chance again, and the means to, and nothing better pops up, and the weather is ok, I'll buy more of these.
This is the design story:
Created by participants of the reddit.com/r/Silverbugs forum, the timeless Ariana coin features a delicate fairy holding a scale, representing trade and stability. She has a horn and is barefoot. Like a scout, Ariana is critical of what she sees and has a long distance focus. Representing Silver's atomic number, there are 47 rays surrounding the silver scale, 47 dots around the rim of the coin's obverse.

A scarab is found on Ariana's reverse, featured to represent transcendance and is a metaphor for life & death. It is also a metaphor for transformation & enlightenment. The scarab's shell features 47 stripes.

The chinese characters are community and silver. The coin features two additional symbols for silver can you spot them?
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That is a really neat looking coin and has a meaning to it which I really like. I may have to pick up some myself!. Where did you purchase yours from?
 
thewontonsoup said:
That is a really neat looking coin and has a meaning to it which I really like. I may have to pick up some myself!. Where did you purchase yours from?
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A friend bought hers from Amagi but had a quick look and SDBullion has them the cheapest at $26.08ea.
 
Nice! I stopped lurking on the Silverbug subreddit once I joined up here. Looks like I'll need to pay closer attention!
 
I bought mine from someone in my world region, that knows someone in the USA, that buys them there, then ships them to that someone in my world region, that then ships them to me.
If that was clear! :D
Sometimes funny things happen: that someone in my world region, that knows someone in the USA, buys some coins in the USA, ships them to that someone in my world region, that then has a customer for them in the USA. Crossed the Atlantic for nothing hehe. Apparently, some people out there in the USA, don't even know that they can buy them there too! It's probably that same 'green activist' woman that thought that the rainbow is due to air pollution. :D
 
And psst dead Mulligan Mint had some nice designs too. * hint * :D
There is a newer one in that series, minted by North American Mint - Rochester, New York USA, a design called 'Arise'.
It looks abit like the AOCS Freedom's Phoenix of years ago, but more detailed and more... aggressive. Both rounds and this Silverbug one have that aura of rays, the original Freedom's Phoenix also showed the sun itself. I still consider the original one as a nicer one because the eagle is like burning in flames when rising in the sun, which gives more 'power' to the theme.
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(with the common SBSS reverse).
A week ago, same time as the Silverbug tube, I ordered this Arise too. I already had planned, didn't yet know about the silverbug one until then. These are the coins/rounds I like. They have a message. They represent a thought, an idea, and a cooperation towards that idea, the silverbug one being the best example of the latter. I hope these kind of designs continue over the years to come. A silverbug 2014, 2015, etc. If it will be economically feasible, is another question.
 
House said:
thewontonsoup said:
That is a really neat looking coin and has a meaning to it which I really like. I may have to pick up some myself!. Where did you purchase yours from?
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A friend bought hers from Amagi but had a quick look and SDBullion has them the cheapest at $26.08ea.
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You are looking pretty again house.
Hated that last hair style and facial surgery you had.
Big improvement:)
 
Seeing this old topic back, have to add: never received the Ariana coins, the Austrian dealer I ordered from and paid didn't do his part of the story and kept silence since. He's not a dealer anymore either. The company has gone.
The ordered SBSS Arise coins weren't paid (he asked me to wait to pay until he was sure he could get them).
The company name was "ALL-Met eU" and the guy running it was named Thomas Kumpfmller.
Had since 2011 about 10 orders, no problems, gifts added (like alot free copper versions of rounds).
In case anyone knows what happened, I like to know.
 
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