As prelude to our annual #silvergoldstackers' Secret Santa tradition is @silverD510’s community imitative the 12 Days of Christmas post link to get into this smashing stacking Holiday season started. 🎄
Art from NightCafe A.I.
“Black birds tend to like shiny things.” ~ The Bloody Raven.
Keep it simple this Christmas.
In fact I will be more efficient with the little energy and time I have.
On the first day of Christmas my true love didn’t give to me...
To my dear Secret Santa,
Why this coin Santa? The original mint may have produced a very short run of the 2024 Cutty Sark Nautical Ounce series of famous ships. In fact the mint has yet to publish their mintage of any coin in this series. My unfortunate timing is partly to blame falling off my radar dealing with my mother's passing that 2024 autumn. I believe it being this German mint coming under fire by the Somalian Central Bank for the unauthorized minting Somalian coins. All production ceased until the issue was cleared up or the cash is directed to corrupt er... correct channels. By then the production would be retooling for the upcoming 2025 products.
The Rwanda 50 Franc Nautical Ounce Series from 2017 to 2025
2017 The Santa Maria ✔️
2018 The Endeavour ✔️
2019 The Victoria ✔️
2020 The Mayflower ✔️
2021 The Sedov ✔️
2022 The USS Constitution ✔️
2023 The Great Eastern ✔️
2024 The Cutty Sark 💢
2025 The HMS Victory. ✔️
Normally I would have called upon Danny, and he likes to be my personal Santa, to pin one of these down for me in the US market. But now I'm on my own hoping one would show up in the pitiful Itty bitty Canadian secondary market. So far, I have yet to see one on Ebay.ca.
I suspect this coin will come with a higher sellers premium if it's market absence is any indication.
For the Second Day of Christmas my true love's sister took from me...
Alas, the unhappy tale about this much sought after Florida 5 Goldback is as follows. I recall asking Danny to set aside a pair of these Florida 5 Goldbacks for me back around April along with a handful of coins he was planning to send me this Christmas. He suddenly passed away last May leaving me and our Discord friends stunned. His personal Discord is still running as his other friends drop by time to time to share our memories.
Lately some have been keeping an eye out for any of Danny's estate appearing on Ebay. It was heartbreaking to see them up for sale. 😢
I never got Danny's special annual Christmas package and have to presume that he never had the time to leave directions concerning his estate. He told me that neither his siblings, nieces and nephews were at all interested in Stacking, his mother's vintage jewelry and Dragons. I suspect that his sister simply divided his treasures evenly regardless of sentimental or collectablity. She may have my Miho Matsuda Pullip doll. I seen some of his items that his Instagram friends positively identified. So far two Ebay sellers have been selling his stack/collection were identified by the unique numbers on his poured silver. I'm tempted to pick up a few of his Dragon coins.
Bilge rats! I got sniped on the 2013 Demeter sailing ship. 😩
My stocking is the fishnet one.
Milk 🥛 and Cookies 🍪 are available on request.
Thank you Secret Santa for reading my wish blog. 🤗
Stacking Precious metals and Crypto for those dark stormy days!
The #piratesunday tag is the scurvy scheme of Captain 
2023-24 12 Days of Christmas Unfulfilled Wish list posts;
Day 1; 2013 $50 Canada HMS Shannon & The USS Chesapeake
Day 2; 2017 2 oz. Davy Jones Locker silver round, Privateer Series.
Day 3; 2013 $1 Tuvalu The Dementer, Famous Ships that never sailed series.
Day 4; 2015 Finding Silverbug Island Community Round.
Day 5; St. Bee’s Silver Throwing Star.
Day 6; 2022 $5 Niue Grand Shipwrecks of the World; San Jose.
References & Sources
The Romance of Tall Ships, by Jonathan Eastland, Copyright 1990 Quintet Publishing Ltd., London, page 9. ISBN 1-85348-287-0
Photos are my own shot with an ancient 2018 Samsung SM-A530W or otherwise indicated.
P. Image under Pixabay
W. Wiki Commons
☠️🎃 Page Dividers by thekittygirl. ❄️🌞
Cameo Raven Brooch from The Black Wardrobe.
Physical precious metals bullion stacking is only a part of my personal overall financial strategy. Meanwhile, collecting numismatics are a different set of objectives and strategy. Unless you are a complete nutcase as I am please, do your research before deciding to buy into any bullion or numismatic products.