My 2025 12 Days of Christmas Wish List, Part 4.

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.

Created art in; NightCafe.A.I..
“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 Hive account@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.

2005 5 pounds UK; The Battle of Trafalgar 200th Anniversary Silver Crown.

Reverse; HMS Victory and HMS Temeraire Legend; · 1805 · TRAFALGAR · 2005·, CD Weight 28.28g, .925 Sterling silver Diameter 38.6mm

When I first saw this Trafalgar coin shared by Hive account@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’.

2005 5 pounds UK; The Battle of Trafalgar 200th Anniversary Silver Crown.

Edge Lettering; ENGLAND EXPECTS THAT EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY ·

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.

2005 5 pounds UK; The Battle of Trafalgar 200th Anniversary Silver Crown.

Obverse; Queen Elizabeth II facing right Legend; ELIZABETH · II · D·G·REG·F·D, FIVE POUNDS, IRB Mintage 21,448 Proof Krause Ref KM# 1053a

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.

Book Cover of Fighting Sails, Battle of Trafalgar painting by French artist, Louis-Philllipe Crepin.

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 Hive account@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.

1936 USA Half Dollar Deleware Tercentenary

Reverse; The Swedish ship The Kalmar Nyckel Legend; Delaware Tercentenary, LibertyE Pluribus Unum, 1638 ♦ 1938 Diameter 30.6mm Weight 12.5g, 0.900 Silver

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!

1936 USA Half Dollar Deleware Tercentenary

Obverse; Swede Church, glory, and cloud.Legend; UNITED STATES OF AMERICALegend; IN GOD WE TRUST, 1936, HALF DOLLAREdge; Reeded Philadelphia Mint, 20,993 Krause Reference KM# 179

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!

Stacking Precious metals and Crypto for those dark stormy days!

The #piratesunday tag is the scurvy scheme of Captain Hive account@stokjockey for #silvergoldstackers pirates to proudly showcase their shiny booty and plunder for all to see. Landlubbers arrrh… welcomed to participate and be a Pirate at heart so open yer treasure chests an’ show us what booty yea got!

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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W. Wiki Commons
☠️🎃 Page Dividers by thekittygirl. ❄️🌞
Cameo Raven Brooch from The Black Wardrobe.
Silver Raven, made by ‘Silver to Burn’ Burnie.

"I’m just a gal in black, not a bloody Financial Advisor!"
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.