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A quick snap to remind me until I next see them. 😍🗄️🔒 Edit... Colour difference due to my lighting set up (or lack of)

What about a classic sovereign balance? I'd love some of the experts to chip in and correct me or add anything I've missed but left to my own devices I guess it checks 3 things, the weight, diameter and thickness of either half or full sovereigns Weight and diameter like so And thickness through this slot

Correct

I've been paying close attention to the kidney to silver ratio recently and I feel like it's almost time to play the ratio and make a trade

Spoke to a farmer in the UK this week.. So fertiliser prices are around £750 a ton which is up from about £250 last year... Fuel also. So with wheat barley etc that is produced in the UK these farmers have been selling last year's harvest which hadn't really been hit by these prices fully. This year's harvest (sold from summer this year through to about summer 2023) will have to bear these costs. In addition some (smaller) farmers have been deciding to try and do without the fertiliser or reduce how much they're using... This will reduce their cost but also reduce their yield so potentially they'll have less income and money to buy next year's fertilisers and seed for the 2023 harvest. What's to say fertiliser prices won't go up again? Can see a fair few farmers getting squeezed unless grain prices rise quite significantly. Remember that fuel and fertiliser aren't the only costs to produce and also that a 2 or 3x increase in those won't directly mean a 2 or 3x increase in food price necessarily

I've bought from @SVcollector a couple of times and not had any issues with gold but Israel specifically I'm not sure.

Nobody here is addicted don't worry you'll not meet any bad influences. Just go at your own pace and keep it sensible. For example by eating just two meals a week I can buy an extra sov every 27.5 days 😏

@Britannia47 might know someone who has a photo of a 100g next to some Britannias? 👀

Cast cast cast. It's just stunning. Minted bars don't do much for me. When I first got my hands on a 50 and 100g cast gold bar I was hooked

At the moment just aiming to buy all the above ground gold and silver, including yours.

Some more sovs from @SVcollector and some reading material from @Dakaras he even sneaked in some silver contraband... Is that a @BackyardBullion banter token? 🤔🧐

I don't venture near towns very often but haven't seen much bullion at all. A couple of antique and pawn shop type places have had a few silver coins in but not seen any bargains. There's a bullion shop I've visited and his prices are competitive with the 'big' online dealers usually around £10 over spot maybe a smidge over.

Together we can corner the market

Ultra rare Piedfort sovereign I think it's a proof.

The SOTD I wouldn't even consider personally. It's an interesting comparison though. Sure long in the future everything will be a piece of history 🤔

A few more beautiful Gillicks from @1stsovereign@1stsovereign I've got 8/10 dates now on these and a couple of tubes from BBP (bought empty) .

If Atk want to send me commission PM's are always open 😂

Wasn't me but I did wonder... If it got snapped up the second I posted it I would have had my answer one way or the other

Yeh I saw that. I would take something in that condition as long as I didn't have to weigh in any organs for it

I know next to nothing about grades and grading other than 70 being better than a 69

Thanks for the input folks. It does seem expensive to me but so does 5% over spot 😂 I think looking for a better grade but one of the other years with the same portrait could be a better way for me

Hi Folks Saw this today. Whilst I'm really a bullion stacker I would like to get a few of the pre Victoria portraits Do you think it's worth buying a coin like this with the wear at that price point? (I suppose if it dissappears in the next few minutes I got my answer) Do you think it is better value to buy one in better condition at a higher price? I'm not particularly worried about budget more interested in value and what I get for the money. https://atkinsonsbullion.com/pre-owned/dated-sovereigns/george-iii-1816-1837/pre-owned-1817-george-iii-full-sovereign-gold-coin

So good I think I might keep it 🤣

Hopefully it saves someone a few quid 👍🏽

There's a gold 1 oz Maple at £1525 delivered with a free 1 oz silver one included on the forum 😏