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Going for whatever I can get my hands on, 10k credit waiting - couldn't get a thing last year and will probably give up trying if I cant secure anything this year.
Who am i kidding  il always try - I have said from the start though the gothic crown is the one i care most about as its my all time fav design.

WOW, what a collection, congrats! 

Everyones a flipper in one way or another so you stand a good chance:)
Also there is a "Rolex" style buying now happening with people spending up on all new releases to move up the mint marque membership levels - no doubt with the hope of being offered a great engravers rare coins or some other desirable hard to obtain coins. These purchases may well be let go below retail.
I bought the 2 oz silver. 1000 mintage vs 3750 for the gothic, and £180 vs the gothic £260 price. 
I think the design is awesome and horseback queen portrait is a novelty that will help its value down the line. 

Everyones a flipper in one way or another so you stand a good chance:)
Also there is a "Rolex" style buying now happening with people spending up on all new releases to move up the mint marque membership levels - no doubt with the hope of being offered a great engravers rare coins or some other desirable hard to obtain coins. These purchases may well be let go below retail.
I bought the 2 oz silver. 1000 mintage vs 3750 for the gothic, and £180 vs the gothic £260 price. 
I think the design is awesome and horseback queen portrait is a novelty that will help its value down the line. 

No to be fair its not a fair comparison. I just found the mints mintage/price point interesting compared to it. 
I didnt even plan to buy anything but its my day off and i just so happened to check the mint this morning 😂

WOW, what a collection, congrats! 

Finally completed one collection, fingers crossed the 2022 comes back a 70 😊

Mintage 400 price £2725.00

This is half my misses money, im not entirely sure she would agree with that 🤣
We are getting married in december:) - Total cost of wedding including clothes and ring resizing and a couple nights honeymoon in a premier inn, £400 ... Shes a keeper 🙂
Rings were inherited from grandparents.
Doing it on the cheap:D

Today i bought a year 2000 brilliant uncirculated quintuple sovereign with a mintage of 1000, never seen a double let alone a 5 pound piece:) big purchase for me.
Oh and a 2000 bullion sovereign. 
Now I must save my moneys for a while as im broke.

A french libarterian - er name iz Magdelena Pompodu -  she is the famous onion bhaji seller of Bordeaux. Who famously ate 5 kilos of sprouts and holds the world record for the longest female flatuence. 59 seconds I believe. Also Sir tony Blair wears her knickers, unwashed, which he inherited as she was his great great aunt.
Do I win £5? 

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I think 2022 will be silver's year.
I expect it will rise to £17.31, maybe £17.33.
It's gonna be huge!

Yes they'll send an invoice to the email that you used for registering. No rush to pay imo - they're out of office for holidays and nothing will be shipped until next year. 😉
"Please note that shipping of items will commence in the first week of January 2022. "
 
 

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I was hoping today to see an erection on gold price, but apparently everything is perfect in this world...
Putin and Biden are singing together Kumbaya with a lovely ukrainian choir, China has officially recognized Taiwan's independence, the Federal Reserve of the United States has apologized for printing 50% of the banknotes and has promised to withdraw them from the market, the treasure of the Templars was discovered and Eldorado is open for public visits and everyone can go home with his pockets full of gold nuggets.
@HerefordBullyun is rubbing his hands and I am sleeping every night like a baby: crying and watering my bed.

2021 niue 2 ounce Camelot - Arthur pendragon silver coin! First coin of the series! My girlfriend got it for me for Christmas. 
 
500 mintage!

bullion dealers work to way lower premium than that so you have no chance at all, would be nice but wont happen sadly.

It's marked twice with an identical stamp which is weird and unusual.  It's not British, because as far as I know it would have a purity and makers mark and year letter, but this has only two components.  At a guess, you could start looking up non-UK marks for a match and it would help if you had any other clues where the ring came from.
If you put it in fire and it then reads "Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul" ...
Then you could be in great danger and I'd not recommend wearing the ring.

Got straight 70s from PCGS on the entire submission! wow never so lucky before!

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Today i bought a year 2000 brilliant uncirculated quintuple sovereign with a mintage of 1000, never seen a double let alone a 5 pound piece:) big purchase for me.
Oh and a 2000 bullion sovereign. 
Now I must save my moneys for a while as im broke.

Will do! left it pretty late so no time to mess around now - we are both in 100% savings mode for a very long time! 
The watch buying will be ending for the foreseeable future too. 

This is half my misses money, im not entirely sure she would agree with that 🤣
We are getting married in december:) - Total cost of wedding including clothes and ring resizing and a couple nights honeymoon in a premier inn, £400 ... Shes a keeper 🙂
Rings were inherited from grandparents.
Doing it on the cheap:D