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Tombola Cornucopia The splendid haul of swag that was the "Silver to Platinum" prize has now landed and I again offer my heartfelt thanks to @stefffana, @ryanwinter73 and @theman73. All glorious. I must also extend my gratitude to admin @ChrisSilver for the one month's TSF membership credit.

Collected an amazing haul of conserved and graded coins from our @GoldDiggerDave. All of these came back MS/PF70. Lovely... 2023 Coronation Quintuple Sovereign BU 2018 Queens Beasts Red Dragon 1/4oz Proof 2022 Memorial Piedfort Sovereign Proof 2007 Proof Full Sovereign Proof

Sorted 🥰

Latest additions The collection of them is starting to grow

Some more 1/10 oz gold 2022 1/10 oz American Gold Eagle 2022 1/10 oz Iberian Lynx 2023 1/10 oz Somali Elephant

Thanks to @GoldDiggerDave for the massive haul of coins I got back from NGC. Most of them I've photographed before, but some of them went straight from Royal Mint to the graders. Here are a couple of the new ones: 2023 Coronation 1oz Gold Proof 2023 Coronation SOTD Sovereign

Got in touch with @BackyardBullion 18 months ago to start my silver chess journey. I am truly speechless. Thanks BYB for all your hard work and putting up with me through the months. P.S. A handmade board will come for Christmas so don't criticize the cheap one in the photos lol

Hello everyone. @ChrisSIlver and I are very happy to announce the official reveal and general release of the 2023 100g Silver Forum Bars! There are a lot of different aspects to tell you about so I have split this post up into various sections, hopefully this will cover most of your questions but if there is something I have not covered then please feel free to get in touch or comment on this thread. What are The Silver Forum Bars all about? The Silver Forum Bars (in all their sizes) have been created as a way to draw the silver forum community together but also as a fundraising and brand awareness raising exercise. Some of the proceeds from the sales of these bars go directly to The Silver Forum and help keep the forum running in the way we have become accustomed to. Silver Premium, Gold Premium, Platinum and Platinum Plus memberships go a long way to helping the running of the forum and to help keep the membership prices as low as practical, The Silver Forum Bars we make help a lot with this too. Any support you can give is greatly appreciated. In addition, these bars are about raising brand awareness for The Silver Forum and to encourage new people to join and to make standard members think about supporting the forum by upgrading their membership or simply supporting the forum on a one off basis. Hand Poured Silver Partnership Hand poured silver has evolved so much in the last 7 years and it is evident that Hallmarked Poured silver is becoming ever more popular. These bars are all hand poured, stamped and finished by myself meaning each and every bar is unique in some way. The weights will vary bar to bar (although none less than 100g) and the cooling patterns of the silver will also be unique and different for each one. Even the stamping (again done by hand) is different bar to bar. The allure of hand poured silver is growing stronger month by month and these bars are a brilliant way to start collecting hand poured silver and at the same time supporting the forum and my own business too! Hallmarking As with all of my Hand Poured Silver products these bars are Assay Tested and Hallmarked by the Edinburgh Assay Office. These bars are hallmarked with a 2mm sized mark - it is a larger and more expensive mark than normal but it really shows off the beauty of the Edinburgh Assay Office's work. Hallmarking is a very good addition to any poured silver. It is your guarantee that these bars are indeed 999 fine silver and made by me in 2023. If anyone wants to find out more about hallmarking please feel free to get in touch! Ready for Immediate Dispatch! The bars are all made and hallmarked and ready to go. Mintage Figures The mintage for 2023 is 175 Bars matching the previous years mintage. Mintage figures are as follows for all the releases of 100g bars to date: 2023: 175 bars 2022: 175 bars 2021: 175 bars 2020: 150 bars 2019: 100 bars 2018: 150 bars 2017: 150 bars These mintage figures are set and will not change. Pricing Standard or Non member price - £115.00 per bar Silver Premium member price - £110.00 per bar Gold & Platinum member price - £105 per bar Platinum Plus member price - £100.00 per bar UK Postage: 1 bar: +£3.50 via signed for delivery or +£8 for special delivery 2 bars or more: Free postage International postage: +£12.50 tracked for or free for 3+ bars Forum membership and pricing As you can see there are some very good savings to be had for upgrading your membership - so take a look at the benefits that are available for premium and gold premium members today! Guaranteed bars for owners of 2022 editions As with all our Silver Forum products we offer first right of refusal to all owners of a previous years serial number. So, the following applies: If you own a bar with a serial number between 1 and 175 from 2022 then you will be able to buy the same serial number for 2023. If you wish to reserve that number you need to do so BEFORE 17th September 2023. Members who do not own bars from 2022 will be able to put their name down on a waiting list for unallocated bars. After 17th September 2023 we will know how many bars are still available against how many people are on the waiting list. In the event that there are more members than bars available we will draw a random ballot to allocate bars to people. We will then communicate a fair and open way to decide who gets what bar serial numbers. Not got a 2022 bar? Join the waiting list today! To formally join the waiting list all you need to do is comment on this thread or drop me a PM that you wish to have a bar. I hope that all makes sense. In summary, you have until 17th September 2023 to reserve and/or pay for your existing serial numbers if you have a 2022 edition. A few notes on pricing of these bars These bars are hand poured, hand stamped and polished by me. They take a lot of time and energy and equipment to create. These are premium hand poured silver products, not cheap bullion. They are a way to support the Backyard Bullion business, my brand and most importantly, The Silver Forum. As I said earlier, proceeds from the sale of these bars go towards the upkeep and running costs of this forum. This helps keep membership prices as low as possible for premium and gold premium members and ensures that standard members can still use this forum for free. The price also incorporates the Hallmarking costs, this includes postage of these bars to and from Edinburgh and the application of the hallmark. Standard members - The difference in price is as a way for you to support the forum in a one off style payment rather than signing up for membership. But also please feel free to upgrade your membership to take advantage of the discounts available. Payment Information To secure the reservation of your bars and serial numbers you will need to pay me before 17th September 2023 If you are interested then please let me know in this thread or via PM and I will then reply with the payment information. Payment will be via Banks Transfer or PayPal. We can accept other forms of payment too, just ask if you would like to find out more. Also, I welcome all feedback and any questions you might have about these bars. Thanks for reading and thanks for supporting The Silver Forum!

Hi as you're new I will try and explain the workings of the forum. You know you have purchased when seller either responds on the sales thread to say it's yours, or sends a private message with payment instructions. Buyer's can either comment on the sales thread or by private message ( their own preference) to show interest,the seller will respond based on timestamps. unfortunately on this occasion the actual buyer piped you to the post by pm-ing first, before your comment. To suggest otherwise, or imply the seller was backing out due to spot price is both harsh and incorrect, they have a successful trade history and have nothing to gain by choosing one member over another. I appreciate you missed out on a bargain, but I can assure you more will pop up regularly. Best piece of advice I can give is to take your time.... look around and see how the forum actually works before jumping in with size 13s on. It's a very successful place that's built on trust and integrity, the last thing you want to do is create a negative view of yourself before your journey even begins. If unsure of anything or ever need direction/ advice, just ask and I will try my best to answer or point you in the direction of someone in the know.

Today I received the news that I had just become a Great Uncle. In anticipation of this I bought a 2023 half sovereign to give to my Great Niece. When I was born in the late 1950s I was given a £1 Premium Bond - it has never won anything! So I now give my nephews a sovereign on getting married (first marriage only!) and I intend to give my Great Nephews and Nieces a half sovereign when they are born. I can't afford a full sovereign as potentially there could be up to three or four births a year! So, I've put a 2023 bullion half sovereign in one of the RM's fancy boxes. I will include a note saying it is bullion (rather than proof) - I don't want them to think I am a binlord!

1997 Proof Quintuple Sovereign

After sending plenty of clear pictures of the changed address label , Christmas card and other details It has now gone to the signed Declaration stage. Have just sent these forms off and should hear back within 72 hours 🤞 Will also drop into a Police station and report the Fraud and get a case number. I'm fairly sure the Police will pay him a visit in Merseyside.

Obviously I’ve followed all the photography tips and put my own amateur spin on the advice. It’s never the value but the design. 1oz Perth Mint Dragon Bars * 2oz Kitsume Mask * 1oz Dead Men Tell no Tales* 1oz Zi sin lepus * 1oz Mermaid Princess of the seas Coloured * 1oz Mermaid Princess of the seas Proof Like(* @Panda6Pack ) 1/4oz QB Reverse Proof White Greyhound of Richmond.🤩 1/4oz QB Reverse Proof White Lion of Mortimer.🤩 Not a lover of QB, but these are beauties. 2014 Sovereign (Datestamp Nonsense) Soup Can- as discussed. Graded coins returned by @GoldDiggerDave 1oz Coronation Gold Proof PF70UC Coronation Proof Sovereign PF70UC

Bar of beauty 😊

A few additions to the pirate's chest over the last week - all off TSF. Five Gillicks from @flyingveepixie Then a nice double Jubilee sovereign from @Stuh Then 5 interesting 2 oz Korean silver 'masks' (Kitsune) from @Johnboysilver Then the last for today - a whole load of Sterling Pincher's medallions at less than the spot price of silver at the time from @AdamDutton - one medallion got missed off the photo but you get the impression.

Took this recent spot price reduction to do first ever gold purchase. Although I love silver, this also got me super excited.

Me too... thanks @BackyardBullion for the swift postage and hard work in getting these made!

A couple more for the collection I’m not supposed to be building. T’is the season of bargains

Another 3 coins back from grading at PCGS; 2 x Queen's Beasts and 1 x King Charles III coronation. I'm really pleased with the results. I'm in love! 😍

Big thanks to @QuantumStacker

2021 Quarter Ounce Brit From @BackyardBullion - arrived last week. Actually my first fine gold quarter.

My set is back and I’m chuffed! Requested for the obverse to be facing up and so glad I did. Showcasing the special portrait amplifies the set’s beauty, especially the quintuple

Big thanks to @Midasfrog

Just received some 1g bars from Tavex. Trying to tempt the kids to invest in a bit of gold!!! The service from Tavex was excellent, first time using them, and I used the discount from the silver forum. Happy days.

Many thanks for their impressive generosity to @theman73, @ryanwinter73 and especially to @stefffana as organiser and patron. This will be only the second time I have drunk Romanian wine...the teaspoon is an appropriate accoutrement if the first is anything to go by. Thanks also to all those who have offered felicitations, be it via PM or in this thread. My kindest regards, PL

It’s a silver kind of day today. Thanks @BackyardBullion for the 2023 100g bars and Le Grand Mint for this absolute stunner of a 1oz ultra high relief 🐝

Well, to be truthful at £1530 each, but that includes RMSD, so actually a few pence under spot when postage and packaging costs are taken into account. I have three of these. They are all in excellent bullion condition, all purchased from Chards. They are of course identical, hence photos of only one of them. (All three do exist, however.) They come in square, padded, acrylic cases. Thank you for looking.

Some Shield Backs Sovereigns

2023 American Eagles £24.50 each plus postage, lots available

Today's arrival thanks too @BackyardBullion @ChrisSilver

A while ago I put up a topic or post about a possible server move and the reasons for this. In short we are moving away from self managed severs to cloud hosting, this is expected to be our last and final move, and will provide several benefits to the community including more forum features. We hope to schedule this for sometime towards the beginning of September but will give at least 1 weeks notice when we know a move date. There will be some downtime during one day however this will be minimised as much as possible, and we will aim for the actual switch over to be as seamless as possible and to go LIVE as soon as possible with the bulk of the images and data being uploaded in the background whilst the new server is live. I will update in this topic as soon as have a switch date ⚠️ Edit: Please see update in next post below

Long story short, major issues in getting the files to the new cloud host. Mainly because they are extremely large. Zipping the original files also took over 24 hours, these then need to be split into several smaller zipped packets and sent, which also takes 12+ hours. This is after taking days and days to download the original files from the server in the first place 😅 there have been some issues trying to get this bit done even though we started work originally on Thursday. The forum is just really massive, and not easy to migrate as the cloud host is only able to take zipped files and not direct FTP access to download the files themselves. Thank you to Premium Members who choose to support TSF with Premium Membership as this does help greatly to our hosting and running costs. In order to minimise disruption and keep the forum online for as much as possible, we will only put the forum into offline mode and start migrating the database after we have managed to successful zipped/split/sent/extracted and migrated the majority of current files in the background. We want to make sure we can do this part first before putting the forum offline. The forum may therefore go offline sometime this week (possibly still very late tonight or more likely tomorrow) but we are unable to give an exact time frame as we are unsure and planning for a specific date/time is not so easy due to the variables. We do hope that we can complete the migration this week.

Finally got to unpack this little bundle of joy huge thanks to golddiggerDave for sorting the grading out and being very patient with me totally recommend him to anyone

Stoked with this delivery... Thanks @Adzroz for the swift delivery. Lovely 4x 1/4oz's to add to the stack.

Payday weekend sale! 4 x 2022 Jubilee QE2 Full Sovereigns are available. £385 inc SD each, or buy all four for £1,520 inc SD. Sold as bullion, however I bought them direct from Atkinsons in 2022 and they’ve been sat in their flips (included in sale) since I bought them, so they are pretty much in “Mint” condition. Payment via BACS or PayPal F&F. Postage next Post Office working day (Tuesday at earliest!) once funds have cleared into my bank account. Reason for sale - Spent to much on my recent trip to Thailand 🇹🇭 Buy with confidence!! Happy BH weekend! 😃 Mancunian Stacker

6 nice half sovs from the girl in the pawnshop 😬

Ticket number 32 is the WINNER! Congratulations @PapaLazarou!

Silver purchases for this week. Just over 60 ounces. Keep stacking!

£3100 posted SD Sorry no int postage Bank wire or PayPal F&F ONLY Thanks for looking

Some lovely bits In from @Webstertoday and a nice 1kg Germania The Swiss of America is super nice. Very few of these were ever made and already kicking up quite a stir with my American friends 😁

One of a few lovely looking young heads received from @Orpster

1/10oz Gold Coins £168 plus post of buyers choice and risk if not SD, BT, PPF&F or CashApp, UK mainland or NI only Years for Brits are 2023x9, 2020x2, 2019, 1999, 1989, the proof Krug is a 2010 The 2023 Brits are all QEII

I have received these over the past couple of days. Thank you to @Panda6Pack for the lovely Dragon bar, which I already given away. Also to @BackyardBullion for my brilliant TSF bar and last but not least to @arphethean for the postage stamps, which are just the best value on the market 80p for a first class stamp which will be increasing to £1.25 very soon. The comic stamps brought back memories because my sister and I used to have two of the comics, really lovely,💛🌞

2018 Britannia 2019 Britannia 1982 Krugerrand 2018 Krugerrand 2021 Krugerrand Box also available for £20 (holds 7 x 1/10th coins in capsules) Thanks for looking, Bobski

Bought this shipwreck golden ducat. This is one out of 2000 found in the Dutch VOC shipwreck Vliegent hert which sunk in 1735 in a brutal storm. some more info here:https://fb.watch/mLjEvV1vck/

Fantastic new purchase love history & I’m extremely honoured in owning this specimen, Produced from salvaged silver bars from the shipwreck SS SKYRO in 1896 😍😍😍 *May pop my cherry by getting this graded if that’s possible.

Not today, but thanks to @paulmerton (anyone else wonder if its Paul Merton off the telly?!l) the 3 coin memorial set. And also a 2.5g gold Fortuna from @TavexBullion. My first from them, must say excellent packaging. Both excellent deals. The Pamp has joined my growing family... And then off to storage for the yellow metal...

Just arrived! New postie… nice and early😮🤔thanks to @arshimo2012

Thanks to @Orpster, usual great service! Plus a great coin👍