Other Pure Silver Coin Collection

This page will be used to list the other pure silver coins in my collection. This will include foreign silver, other Canadian silver coins and also silver rounds.

Silver Coins (5 coins)

1. 2011 1/2 ounce Maple Leaf Forever
2. 2011 1 ounce Wayne and Walter Gretzky
3. 2013 1/2 ounce Inukshuk
4. 2013 1/2 ounce Beaver
5. 2013 1/2 ounce Royal Canadian Mounted Police 
6. 2013 1/2 ounce Polar Bear 
7. 2012 1/2 ounce Canadian Summer Fun
8. 2013 1/2 ounce Niagara Falls
9. 2013 1/2 ounce Year of the Snake

Silver Rounds (1 coin)

1. Mark Messier

List of 1/25 Oz Gold Coins

I am not just a silver collector! I have been investing in gold bullion bars/coins for a long time and recently began collecting numismatic gold coins. Most of the ones I have are small - like these Royal Canadian Mint 1/25 ounce gold coins. All coins are 99.99% pure gold and have a 50 cent face value.

I will post links to my new coins as I share them on the internet (blog posts or YouTube videos). Like always, let me know if anything is missing!

Regular Canada 1/25 oz Gold Coins (10 of 22)

1. 2004 Moose
2. 2005 Voyageur
3. 2006 Cowboy
4. 2007 Wolf
5. 2008 deHavilland Beaver
6. 2009 Red Maple
7. 2010 Royal Canadian Mounted Police
8. 2011 Canada Geese
9. 2012 Bluenose
10. 2012 Farewell to the Penny
11. 2012 150th Anniversary of the Cariboo Gold Rush
12. 2013 Owl Shaman Holding Goose
13. 2013 300th Anniversary of Louisbourg
14. 2013 Bald Eagle
15. 2013 Starfish
16. 2014 150th Anniversary of Quebec and Charlottetown Conferences
17. 2014 Canada's Classic Beaver
18. 2014 Osprey
19. 2014 Seahorse
20. 2015 Maple Leaf
21. 2015 Owl
22. 2015 Lobster

Conservation Successes 1/25 oz Gold Coins (0 of 4)

1. 2011 Boreal Forest
2. 2011 Orca Whale
3. 2011 Peregrine Falcon
4. 2011 Wood Bison

1974 Sierra Leone Silver 1 Leone - 10th Anniversary of the Bank of Sierra Leone (1964-1974)

You may have noticed the video blog post on this coin from a few days ago and now I am finally getting around to providing some more details on the coin.

I had a chance to visit the country of Sierra Leone back in 2005. Unfortunately the country had recently finished a brutal civil war a few years earlier but I still enjoyed my time there. The movie Blood Diamonds was set in Sierra Leone and, well a fictitious film, illustrated alot of the violence that occurred because of fighting over valuable diamond mines. The country still has many scars in the form of displaced citizens, extreme poverty, corruption and disease but I hope it can recover soon.

I was very happy to see this coin available and bought it immediately. The coin was released in 1974, with a mintage of 40,000 coins, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Bank of Sierra Leone. One side of the coin has the bank logo (a lion guarding a treasure chest) and the other side has a picture of the 1st President of Sierra Leone, Dr. Siaka Stevens. From what I have read Siaka Stevens was a fairly ruthless individual and a borderline dictator, but I like the coin anyways.

One interesting think I read is that when Sierra Leone got independence from England the Leone was valued on par with the British Pound. As of today, one Pound could buy you 6600 Leones! Now that is what I call currency devaluation!

Mintage: 40,000
Mint: Bank of Sierra Leone
Purity: 92.5% Silver
Weight: 28.28 grams (approx. one avoirdupois ounce)
Diameter: 38.61 millimeters
Notes: Came with case and certificate of authenticity

Silver Round I Got In The Mail - Mark Messier Commemorative

Here is a video of me opening up a package I got. It was a commemorative coin of NHL hockey great Mark Messier - a 1 oz 0.999 silver coin produced by the Highland Mint. Enjoy!

Video Blog - Silver 1974 Sierra Leone One Leone Coin

Here is a video on another of my sterling silver coins. This is a 1974 Sierra Leone Silver One Leone coin. I haven't had a change to add a blog page about it yet, but here is a video of it where I give some good views of it and some interesting facts.

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Video Blog - Yugoslavia Olympic Coin

I had a chance to do another video blog today. Here is my Yugoslavia Olympic coin along with some commentary about it and why I bought it.

2002 Horse Privy Mark Silver Maple Leaf

After quite some time of wanting to I finally made my first purchase of a Chinese Zodiac privy mark Silver Maple Leaf. For those of you that don't know, from 1998 until 2009 the Royal Canadian Mint released a series of 12 coins with privy marks to commemorate the signs of the Chinese Zodiac. Each coin was released on a year that coincided with that sign (for example, 2002 was the Year of the Horse).

There was really no real reason why I chose to get the Horse privy first, other than that it was the first coin I had an opportunity to purchase. That probably has to do with the fact that there was a fairly high mintage for this coin, a mintage of 25,000. I think the photo gives a pretty good view of the privy mark but I will make sure to take a video of the coin when a get a few more of the Chinese Zodiac coins (which I plan to in the very near future, since I am going to try and focus my efforts on getting this series of coins).