Hi, everyone! I guess it's time to go from lurker to participant in this great forum. I started stacking in April, at the time when prices were at their highest, and at that time i didn't have the benefit of the wisdom of fellow stackers, so I felt quite intimitated, but determined to get started. My first purchase was a 1 kg 2011 rabbit, cause i wanted my first coin to be special. Since then i have had a soft spot for the coins from the Perth Mint, and i have added a few as the prices gradually came down a bit.
Since then i got some 5 oz and 2 oz rabbits, some carded roos and then i ventured into the mexican libertads. Never had the benefit of any local coin stores, so it's been internet purchases all the way, untill today actually.
I am Scandinavian, but currently live in Spain, and I will spend 4 months of the next 6 in Germany, so that's why put Europe in my header. Very excited to see what i can find in coin stores in Germany, since the Germans seem very keen on the Perth silver. I would really like to add to the years i have of lunars and kooks! I've had some luck in numismatic stores online, and I've even tried the eBay-route, but especially the latter seems both time consuming and expensive, so I am looking for other ways.
Today i feel I got a little lucky when i found a coin store here locally. I have seen a lot of those Compro Oro places, you know, little shops set up to get people to part with their precious metals. Today I decided to go in and ask if they were selling any silver coins. No such luck. They said the didn't know of any places selling. So I Kept on and went into a jewelry store where they actually pointed me in the direction of a numismatic store at the flower market. Long story short, i ended up with a gilded koala and two gilded ASLs, as well as a Spanish coin with a pablo picasso image of Miguel de Cervantes!
This last one was the real coup, I think, cause I got if for 28 euro, while its printed value is 30 euros! How often do they sell you 30 euros for 28? I am definitely going back again! It had a mintage of 5000, so I am happy with my first visit to a coin store in Spain!
Anyway, sorry for the long winded first post. I look very much forward to being a part of the forum, and to get to know you all better. God loads of questions, but I've tried to learn as much as I can lurking here and in other forums.
Since then i got some 5 oz and 2 oz rabbits, some carded roos and then i ventured into the mexican libertads. Never had the benefit of any local coin stores, so it's been internet purchases all the way, untill today actually.
I am Scandinavian, but currently live in Spain, and I will spend 4 months of the next 6 in Germany, so that's why put Europe in my header. Very excited to see what i can find in coin stores in Germany, since the Germans seem very keen on the Perth silver. I would really like to add to the years i have of lunars and kooks! I've had some luck in numismatic stores online, and I've even tried the eBay-route, but especially the latter seems both time consuming and expensive, so I am looking for other ways.
Today i feel I got a little lucky when i found a coin store here locally. I have seen a lot of those Compro Oro places, you know, little shops set up to get people to part with their precious metals. Today I decided to go in and ask if they were selling any silver coins. No such luck. They said the didn't know of any places selling. So I Kept on and went into a jewelry store where they actually pointed me in the direction of a numismatic store at the flower market. Long story short, i ended up with a gilded koala and two gilded ASLs, as well as a Spanish coin with a pablo picasso image of Miguel de Cervantes!
This last one was the real coup, I think, cause I got if for 28 euro, while its printed value is 30 euros! How often do they sell you 30 euros for 28? I am definitely going back again! It had a mintage of 5000, so I am happy with my first visit to a coin store in Spain!
Anyway, sorry for the long winded first post. I look very much forward to being a part of the forum, and to get to know you all better. God loads of questions, but I've tried to learn as much as I can lurking here and in other forums.
