Love for silver coins
Some of you already know that my love for silver coins started back in the Steemit days on my old account where I used to drool over the Steem silver rounds that showed on my timeline. At the time, I needed to power down quite a lot simply because life was more expensive than our fiat income. We were climbing back up from being homeless and starting our lives in another country while also facing health issues. I will be eternally grateful for the support I had while I needed the fiat relief over building my stake. Sometimes we didn't get to the end of the month without struggles so there surely was no money to spend on silver coins I loved so much. Therefore I never could afford a Steemit round while that's where my blockchain journey once started.
My first silver coin
Hive silver round
Thankfully for me, @silversaver888 decided to release a Hive silver round in June this year and I was lucky to be in time to order one from her. I saved up my HBD for a few weeks to pay the coin and later the shipping costs. I didn't want to miss this opportunity because again, this is part of my journey and story I want to pass on to my kids later. I'm happy to have this sweet round as part of my currently tiny collection.
My precious Hive round
Picking up where I left off
When I joined an auction website recently for selling purposes, it didn't take me long to check the coin auctions and last week I decided to bid on a set of 2 coins, which I won! This will be the first time that I have two identical silver coins but at least my collection grew by 2 at once, lol.
I was really hoping to find some nice coins on the flea markets we visited this weekend but there were just too many coins I knew nothing about. Mostly these coins were either real ancient coins but with low value or (even more of them) seemed to be tourist versions of these coins looking on the backside of the coins.
Then there was one guy who had a closed box with coins but he knew what he had as he asked high prices, while I had no idea what it was worth, lol. There was none that I found interesting so I clearly didn't buy any of them. I was a bit disappointed because after the lucky win last week, I was hoping to add a few coins to my small collection to dig into the history and write about it but it is what it is.
Keeping an eye on auctions
Instead of hoping for the next win on a flea market, I'm now keeping a close eye on the auctions and mostly those in Spain for lower shipping costs. I've got a bid on a few of those ancient ones, I hope to get lucky at least one more time with a win.
Meanwhile, I will have to dig a bit into the history of pesetas and their prices so that next time when I'm at a flea market I can at least pick up a few of these for my collection because right now I had no clue what I should pay for them and what it would be based on...
My goal for 2024
I have set myself a goal for 2024 and that is to at least buy 1 piece of silver each month, but if possible, find a few more coins for my collection so that I can learn more about silver and ancient coins as well as build a decent stack of my own.
The first Chinese Myths and legends coin from 2022: dragon
The second Chinese Myths and legends coin from 2022: phoenix
I'm hoping to be able to do so by finding some online deals as well as find them in person on (flea) markets in the future because I'm pretty sure we will be going there at least once a month from now on. Not only have I gotten back stackeritus but the love to hunt for hidden gems is definitely back as well, which is a good combination.
I'm very excited to share more coins that were added to my personal collection. Do you collect silver or other precious metals yourself? Let me know in a comment below..