PJRay

I cleaned a sovereign once. I won't usually but this one was really grim... like it had lived a large portion of its life stuck down a squaddies undercrackers.

It wasn't a rare one so I thought what the hell.

I read on this very forum about a method of putting a dab of neat washing up liquid on each side and rubbing it gently between your forefinger and thumb, so as you can't feel the faces of coin itself, rather rub only the viscous liquid into the coin. I did that until the green gloop turned brown, then I ran it under the tap and then I patted it dry with a paper towel.

It wasn't gleaming spotless, but it was a big improvement on its original condition which I never really want to touch before.

I want to emphasise again that it was a bog standard bullion sov. Almost literally.

35 minutes ago, Divmad said:

Someone earlier mentioned that using Bairdmint to buy Gold sovereigns was a competitive deal.

 

Well I beg to differ.

Yes, if you take their advertised prices, in-bond, but when you add on delivery charges, it's quite another matter.

Tonight, as an example, I was about to buy a 1959 Gold sovereign for their price of £323, but at the checkout, they added on no less than £13.20 for delivery (£11 + £2.20 VAT). It doesn't matter if it's one or two coins you buy. All are at £13.20 extra.

I am appalled, especially since the last time I bought one Gold sovereign from Bairdmint, which was in June 2020, they charged me a standard £6.25 (no VAT).

I think I'll stick with Chards. They are most reasonable when it comes to P&P.

I thought exactly the same thing. I noticed their postage costs had doubled since the summer and thought I wouldn't bother for a few sovs.

I also noticed an update to their delivery t&c's that concerned me. Is this always been a thing?

Yikes! When you said you were going in on QB's, you weren't kidding. Great haul!

Congrats @Fadeingstar

Congrats @Jaconet

Great haul @GrandadLion Many congratulations!

Congrats @Ryan

If the government ever wanted to get their hands on your gold, there are much easier ways of going about it than kicking down doors at 6 a.m. to ransack a house because of some receipt from HGM a decade ago.

Why go to all that difficulty and expense when you could make the sale of gold illegal... unless the buyer is the government. That'd hoover most of it up. Sure you could 'stick it to the man' by burying your stash in the woods, but you nor your kids would ever be able to realise its value unless you sold it on a gold black market. Then the government could go after the black market instead. That'd be more effective than chasing the ghosts of some old receipt, less messy than interrogation and a hell of a lot cheaper than locking people up.

That's the way I'd do it. 😈

Congrats @ragnar

26 minutes ago, Dimitri said:

Not so much worried, but given that I'm purchasing gold as a long-term way of storing some of my savings, protecting myself against the eventuality of future confiscation seems like a sensible thing to do, however unlikely this eventuality may seem.... today.

If that day ever came you could recount the tale of your unfortunate boating accident. Such a sad story.

21 minutes ago, Foster88 said:

I think this is the day it breaks £1,500 and I predicted that by Christmas. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 😂

3 minutes ago, TheApe said:

What in particular did you take such offense to?

Ouite a few things but I'm not prepared today to be drawn into an argument about the socio economic musings of a professional right wing agitant.

He didn't say anything about macro economics that wasn't common knowledge and dressed it up with his own I'm alright Jack ideology.

Doling out 'hard truths' from his tax haven into a spittle flecked camera for his fans. It seems toxic and I won't be touching Peter Schiff with a ten foot barge pole.

I can't believe I watched a whole hour of that. My first and last exposure to Peter Schiff.

A rich smug tax exile's sermon about the economic day of reckoning that the feckless poor should to shoulder the burden of, but it's a sacrifice he's prepared to make.

A man who knows the price of everything and the cost of nothing. I'm stopping now.

There's been no actual mention of gold as yet.

2 hours ago, Mark10110 said:

Peter Schiff brand new interview on Joe Rogan podcast,

Interesting for anyone even looking at gold.

At what time does he start talking about gold?

Congratulations  @SilverSeekerNewbie

Congratulations @matrawr

Congratulations @Neilwillow

Congratulations @dom555

Congratulations @Liam84

Well done @Stuart7

Nice one @AgNO3

Well played @SmallSilverStacker

Well done @Money1