Half a Million in Solid Gold

[JadeDragon]

Today's family field trip included introducing my daughter Jade to some real money - .my gold brick worth $517,000 at today's spot rate. My gold brick Baby is property of the Government of Canada and therefore actually belongs to me! I let the Royal Canadian Mint take care of Baby for me because I don't want the extra insurance premiums required to store her at home.

They have Baby on display at the temporary RCM store in downtown Vancouver this weekend. We dropped by so I could tell my gold brick Baby how much I loved her and cared for her and how absolutely gorgeous she looks. Baby was born in 2011 and she is not that large but she sure is precious. I expect her value to keep growing in the years ahead.

We took along my latest acquisition, a poured 3 oz Market Harmony silver loaf. The little three oz silver loaf looks pretty tiny next to her big cousin Baby. I'll try to post photos of them together later.

The RCM store was also allowing people to stamp their own commemorative tokens. The tokens have the RCM logo on one side and a Rabbit (for the year of the Rabbit) on the other.

[zerocd]

pictures or you're teasing.........

I might have to rethink the whole "baby" thing.


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[SteelCityCopper]

A tease no doubt. The good lookin baby I remember is from Dirty Dancing and she still looks awesome today even in her 50s!

[theo]

A tease no doubt. The good lookin baby I remember is from Dirty Dancing and she still looks awesome today even in her 50s!

". . . and nobody puts baby in the corner!" Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Can't wait to see the pics.

[JadeDragon]

Half a Million in Gold, 3 oz of Silver and a priceless little girl

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Let's see if I can upload photos. The silver bar in the photos is a 3 oz Market Harmony poured ingot. The gold bar is Baby - over half a million in 9999 gold. The priceless little girl is Jade.

2011 RCM Poured Gold Bar, with Market Harmony 3 oz bar for comparison

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[Pennybug]

Very nice Dragon! That's one sweet chunk o' gold! There is far greater value in baby Jade though! Don't ever forget that the gold is worthless compared to her! That's certainly a fam picture to hang on to though! When she's old enough to date... you can show it to her boyfriend and say "yeah... I used to be big into gold and coin collecting... but I decided to trade it all out for firearms and stuff like that."

Steelcitycopper... I totally believe him. I'd say that's a pic of his daughter a few years past the pic he has on the side there. My guess is that they have a very strong bloodline of Okanagan or some other Native Canadian Indian in their family. I've always thought that the pic of little baby Jade was taken just before she got caught with two cheek-fulls of dad's silver or copper coins or something! Very cute kid!

[JadeDragon]

I wish the photos would size correctly. If you click and display in a new window they look much better. Or try clicking on this link download/file.php?id=250

Jade just turned 2 years old this week, while my profile photo shows her in July 09 at age 5 months. While she looks 100% white to me, she is in fact 1/2 native, but not in the way you might expect. Some family background on my daughter and some videos of her culture can be found here. She comes from a tradition rich in collecting.

[Devil Soundwave]

Crikey, that's quite an achievement. I still have less than one ounce of gold.

[Lemon Thrower]

"baby?" i think you are becoming like this guy:



fwiw, if you are ever in key west, at the Mel Fisher musuem they have a gold bar from the wreck that you can actually touch and pick up. its inside a lucite case so you can't take it with you, but its an interesting experience nonetheless.

[JadeDragon]

I did a little more research. The bar is a 400 troy oz London Good Delivery Gold Bar, the form most of the world's gold is stored in (except for the lead filled bars in Fort Knox).

[Sheikh_yer_Bu'Tay]

I did a little more research. The bar is a 400 troy oz London Good Delivery Gold Bar, the form most of the world's gold is stored in (except for the lead filled bars in Fort Knox).

Ahem!! For your information, madam, those are titanium bars electroplated with gold!

Very impressive bar, JD, and your baby is very pretty, too. Beautiful eyes. You are one fortunate momma!

[Devil Soundwave]

I wish the photos would size correctly.

JD - When attached as an inline attachment directly to the board, photos will always show as their maximum dimensions as default on PHPBB. There are way to over-ride this however, but it is a global forum setting for admin and not something users can amend.

Not entirely sure who is the uber-admin here, but perhaps you can pass this their way if it's not your good self:

http://www.phpbb.com/support/documentat ... h_settings


Specifically:

Maximum image dimensions: The maximum size of image attachments, in pixels. If you would like to disable dimension checking (and thereby allow image attachments of any dimensions), set each value to 0.

AND/OR

Image link dimensions: If an image attachment is larger than these dimensions (in pixels), a link to the image will be displayed in the post instead. If you want images to be displayed inline regardless of dimensions, set each value to 0.

Ross

[argent_pur]

I let the Royal Canadian Mint take care of Baby for me because I don't want the extra insurance premiums required to store her at home.

I didn't know gov't mints stored bars for private individuals, that's interesting to know...I wonder if the US Mint does the same, hmmm?

JD, does the RCM charge you anything to store your bar there?

[JadeDragon]

Sure the Royal Canadian Mint offers storage services: http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/about-the ... es-1200030 Can't comment on what the US Mint does.

Thanks for the kind words Sheikh_yer_Bu'Tay - I'm actually a proud father (if you want people on a coin forum to oggle your baby, give her a 400 oz gold bar to hold for the photo)

[Sheikh_yer_Bu'Tay]

Thanks for the kind words Sheikh_yer_Bu'Tay - I'm actually a proud father (if you want people on a coin forum to oggle your baby, give her a 400 oz gold bar to hold for the photo)

Oh, man! I did it again. Open mouth, insert foot.

[JadeDragon]

No one is paying attention to the links about my daughter's heritage. Should be good for a few comments.

[Sheikh_yer_Bu'Tay]

No one is paying attention to the links about my daughter's heritage. Should be good for a few comments.

I have looked at all of them. Sorry, I didn't have time to read everything in the articles, but I enjoyed them none the less. The photos of the heads were great. I would not have wanted to chance upon those warriors while exploring the jungle ... Otherwise my head would have been added to the collection! The young women dancing in the videos are ga-ga-gorgeous! Your little girl is going to grow up and look like that one day? Dude, you are going to have to sho away the boys with a stick!

When my little girl was that age, an old man gave me some of the best advise I ever heard. He said: "You don't realize it now, but this is the best time of your life. As they grow up, they will have less and less time for you... so, make the most of this time that you have." We did. We made our children our top priority. It has paid off in spades. Our children want to see us every day. They both have chosen to stay in our town. When I finally buy that large piece of ground to retire on, they and their spouses want in. They want to build their homes beside ours.

JD, your children are the most valuable investment you will ever make. Best of luck to you!

P.S. Grandkids are even more fun!

[JadeDragon]

No one is paying attention to the links about my daughter's heritage. Should be good for a few comments.

The photos of the heads were great. I would not have wanted to chance upon those warriors while exploring the jungle ... Otherwise my head would have been added to the collection! The young women dancing in the videos are ga-ga-gorgeous! Your little girl is going to grow up and look like that one day? Dude, you are going to have to sho away the boys with a stick!

I have to watch my head around my wife... she says her grandfather ate Japanese flesh and once you get the taste for man meat you crave it. He would try to nibble on the grandkids.

I find it distracting to be in Sabah with all the gorgeous women there. They think white guys are attractive too My wife used to compete in the harvest festivals for the queen title, and my daughter will go compete there too. She should have no issues winning either with the mixed blood.

[Pennybug]

Yeah JD... I wanted to comment on your links earlier... but I've been MASSIVELY busy over the past 2 days! After being unemployed (for the most part) for over 2 years now... I just accepted a GREAT position with a GREAT company! WOOO HOOO! THANK YOU JESUS! I've also been setting up a ski trip with my youth kids (I'm a part time youth pastor as well).

Get ready some of you guys selling silver out there... Now that I'm going back to work full time... at a BETTER paying job then I've ever had....

Anyhow... JD... Good stuff man! I hope little Jade doesn't start collecting those! Good thing you got her looking for gold so early on... and yet again... I believe you've stumbled across some GREAT resources to provide to the new boyfriends when she turns 16 or so!

[Sheikh_yer_Bu'Tay]

I have to watch my head around my wife... she says her grandfather ate Japanese flesh and once you get the taste for man meat you crave it. He would try to nibble on the grandkids.

I find it distracting to be in Sabah with all the gorgeous women there. They think white guys are attractive too My wife used to compete in the harvest festivals for the queen title, and my daughter will go compete there too. She should have no issues winning either with the mixed blood.

My grandfather may have been on the same island as your wife's grandfather during WW2. He was a SeaBee. Because he could build runways for planes, they shipped him out of the Philippines as the Japanese invaded. They sent him to New Zealand until the push for Japan. He helped build virtually every runway up to Okinawa.

He missed New Zealand until his dying day. He said "populating the island" was the main objective of the women there!

I find most races of Asian women to be very attractive, too. I will have to put Sabah on my wish list!

[beachbum999]

yowsa! big brick o'gold!