A pirate’s glint: My Toxic Bullion silver skull...

One of my favourites in my community pour silver chest has to be this 2.3oz hand-poured pirate skull by none other than @raybrockman, working under his pouring label, Toxic Bullion.

It’s a wonderfully gritty piece of pirate silver — a menacing skull with a cloth cap, patch over the left eye, and a small but bold skull-and-crossbones pressed right into its forehead. The detail is surprisingly sharp for a hand-poured piece, and there’s something about the expression on this silver pirate’s face that captures the spirit of stacking itself: a bit of danger, a bit of adventure, and a whole lot of treasure.

What I love most about Toxic Bullion pours is that they carry real personality. You don’t get factory-perfect smoothness or laser-clean lines — you get attitude. Each piece feels like it was wrestled out of the flames, not printed off an assembly line.

This pirate head weighs in at 2.3 troy ounces of .999 fine silver, and while I don’t know how many others were made, I’ve yet to see too many like it floating around the #SilverGoldStackers community. That alone gives it a special kind of rarity — not just in weight or metal, but in story.

Ray might have left the scene, but his work lives on in our stacks, and this pirate head is a reminder of that. It’s a piece I always show off when fellow stackers come around, and one that gets as many questions as compliments.