I have a hard time passing up a good deal on a coin or a silver bar...

Greetings Collectors,

I just picked up another example of a scarce Full Bell Line Franklin and while I already owned this same coin in 64, this very brilliant "blast white" P-mint was for sale rather than auction and I was able to get a great deal on it. The 1960-P is the easiest P-mint from the 60's to aquire but when they reach MS-65 and coupled with bold bell lines, common is a term that is way more than estranged. In fact when it gets to this leval of grade, the adjective "scarce" is stepping aside as the term rare is entering the building. I am very proud of this upgrade to my number 1 set. I don't know about PCGS but NGC has only 71 coins this grade with none higher and PCGS is much tougher on the actual grade so I would think that they have very few as well.

Also just a few minutes ago I was able to snag my 4th 1959-D, this one in a NGC holder grading MS-65 with Full Bell Lines. This 59-D will rest in my Franklin set #2 and I moved a PCGS MS-65 FBL to set three and the "lone 64-FBL" now resides in set number 4. I will never pass up a chance to pick up another one of these coins if the price is right and I can't beleive some of the deals that are making themselves available. All of these coins are so nice that it's beyond me that anyone would want to part with such specimens. At NGC I now own two of the 405 coins grading MS-65 FBL and they have 16 that grade higher by one point and then there is a "lone MS-67" example. Wow these FBL Franklins are scarce.

On a final note, even though I have stopped buying silver bars on a mass scale, this "Sandoval Refiners" 5-ounce old pour bar reared its beautiful head and screamed "Take me, I'm yours", so I did. It will go nicely with the 10 ounce bar from the same refiner that I already own. I prefer bars with a decimal point in the weight tally such as 5.32 or 9.96 etc. but this particular refiner was a small time operator and very few of these almost "home-made" looking bars exist today. Again I feel very fortunate to have procured this 5-oz. piece.

I hope everyone had a good week even though the stock market "fell off a cliff". Although it has done wonders to keep the rally going in Gold & Silver as the former has broken well above $1200 per ounce and Silver is over $18. ( At present(6:48 pm EST) the "ask" on both is $1210.30 & $18.42 respectfully) That makes all of our coins (and bars) more valuble. I do hope everyone has a great safe "coin filled" weekend and that all of you that have Mothers, do spend as much time with them as possible. May 17th will be 4 years that mine has been gone. Happy Collecting to all!

WKF