Brrr! It’s 3 degrees C cold and damp evening outside.
No snow.
Relaxing by a cheery crackling fireplace welcome back to my 2025 12 days of Christmas wish list of practical gift suggestions for the 500 year old Victorian styled vampire pirate #silvergoldstackers Stacker in your circle of friends.
“Black birds tend to like shiny things.” ~ The Bloody Raven.
The #silvergoldstackers community’s traditional Secret Santa gift exchange is on again for 2025. In prelude to this annual gift exchange is @silverd510’s customary imitative; 12 Days of Christmas, While it may be too late to participate in the exchange, participation in the posting of your wish list list or desired gifts are still welcomed.
On the Sixth day of Christmas, my Hong Kong Dealer has found for me...
To my dear Secret Santa,
I’m getting the feeling that my Secret Santa doesn’t take much time off during the off season but continues working behind the scenes like disguising himself as an Asian coin show dealer. Perhaps posing as an owner of said coin trusting that it will end up with it’s intended owner. You’re so humble Santa, you don’t want any credit. I don’t know how you do it but Thank you. I’ll be good and keep it our little secret along with every reader of this post.
When I first saw this Trafalgar coin shared by @welshstacker I’ve not only re-blogged his article, I’ve also promptly placed this numismatic gem on my Wish List opening.
I’ve almost forgot about this coin until D’s July 10th Ship coin Post featured this same commemorative coin. I admit, I was a little envious but that reminded me that I will find one, there are still 29,998 more out there.
I do wish to emphasize that this exquisite sterling piece is purely numismatic for collecting rather for stacking, to add there was some room inside my collecting budget. Two months later, my dealer; Ben at HK Colonial Coins unveiled this beauty on his Discord server, I was more than pleased to BIN, ‘Buy It Now’.
Shipping from Hong Kong usually went on for six or more weeks, now with the Trade War going on between the USA and the PROC shipping has come to a stand still between the two Economic super powers. However, this improved shipping to Canada and I was surprised to receive this order in one week.
Sadly, I didn’t get the whole clam shell case, just the coin and the booklet. I’m immediately taken in by the dramatic painting on the booklet cover, similar to that of one of my table books of my library The Seafarers, Fighting Sail. The cover having the illustration of the Battle of Trafalgar by French artist, Louis-Philllipe Crepin. Nor any more semblance to Clarkson Stanfield’s epic painting of the same historical battle. The booklet does not state the artist.
The scene on the Reverse of this coin are that of Lord Nelson’s flagship HMS Victory and the HMS Temeraire. I can presume that this was the view of these formidable ships from the point of view from the French Redoubtable just before the fleets engaged into battle.
The Coin’s artist and sculptor Clive Duncan emphasized the water conditions. The rolling waves that hampered the Spanish gun’s aim and thus spared the Victory from more damage as she bore down at the center of the allied fleet.
The rest is history.
Despite this coin being case-less, I got good value considering what my Secret Santa may have arranged to see me get this marvelous piece and supporting Ben, my favorite Hong Kong dealer and coin sleuth.
I’m am happy with this addition to my Silver Ships Collection.
With my original Sixth day gift fulfilled what shall I put in place of my Sixth Day Wish? 🤔
And that brings me back to @silverd510’s September 2nd post of the Swedish Sailing ship the Kalmar Nyckel. Since I already possess the 1636-1938 Sweden 2 Krona New Sweden. Having it’s opposite American coin will make this a match set.
And there we have it Santa. The perfect substitute Christmas gift suggestion for my Sixth day of Christmas. It doesn’t have to be MS-70 or MS69 in a NGC or PCGS slab. I know these can be tough to find so I won’t mind if it’d be around AU-58.
Thanks D for the suggestion!
It's just passed 3:00 AM, I better post and call it a night.
I'm still a Night owl after years of night shift work.
Jamaican Rum 🥛 and hard tack 🍪 are also available on request.
Santa, if you plan to drink, you better have Rudolf drive your sleigh. 🦌
Thank you my Secret Santa and Hive friends for visiting My Wish blog today. 🤗
Toodle-doo!
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2025 12 Days of Christmas Wish list posts;
My 2025 12 Days of Christmas; Part 1. The Rwanda Cutty Sark and the Florida 5 Goldback.
My 2025 12 Days of Christmas; Part 2. The ‘In Omnia Paratus’ and Asahi Compass Rose.
My 2025 12 Days of Christmas; Part 3. The Raven and Skull Tombstone bar.
My 2025 12 Days of Christmas; Part 4. The 1936 US Half Dollar Delaware Tercentenary, Kalmar Nyckel
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 Seafarers; Fighting sail" by A.B.C. Whipple 1978, ISBN 0-8094-2656-0.
Wiki; The Battle of Trafalgar.
Photos are my own shot with an ancient 2018 Samsung SM-A530W or otherwise indicated.
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Brrrrrr, I think I would not want to go out in that cold. wkwkwkw. maybe when the snow is pouring, I might wan tot come out otherwise, indoor is just fine for me.
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I wish that you can buy that trafargal coin in the future. ;)
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It is getting cold, and that looks like a really sweet coin !PIMP
Two awesome ship coins that I don't have in the collection either. I would love to add both though, and have been looking on and off for the Delaware for some time. Just haven't found a good deal. The Trafalgar commemorative would be really nice as well, what a pretty coin! I may have to add that to the list as well, that's really cool.
I'm glad you had the nice fire going for the cold night while you worked. Good to hear there isn't any snow yet, but this time of year I'm sure that's inevitable up north. I hope you are feeling not worse and hanging in there!
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I’ve got a nice graded one of that….
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With silver now at $60.49 on Kitco that should warm you up on some of these cold winter nights!🤗😇
Early Merry Christmas my friend!😊
Both awesome coins! Here, it's snowing/ freezing rain, so it's a bit slippery! But, I am braced for -40 any day now!
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