Happypanda88

What are we bidding for ? Asking for a friend.

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Forget about paper gold, take advice from Olivia. petal_20240414_201136.mp4

I collect Pandas. Are you looking to offload them ? If you're willing to sell them for a little over the spot price then I can take them off you 😬

These 1976 Olympics commemorative sets are very nice but were so unloved by collectors even though they are .925 silver. I started noticing them in 2016 and have picked them a few sets and individual Coins in proof and BU for around spot. From my spreadsheet, I picked up 23 coins or 26.6 oz (ASW) over a two year period for a princely sum of £331 or £12.44/oz. So unless they are more sought-after on the current market, my guess is that they will still sell for around spot price.

Some background information for those who still believe that there is gold in Fort Knox. 1. No audit has been performed at Fort Knox since 1950s. Some in the bullion industry have highlighted this and are highly sceptical that there is real stuff in the vault 2. Gold (400oz bars) shipped to Hong Kong, believed to have originated from the US were filled with tungsten. It was uncovered when assaying was performed and it broke the drill Rob Kirby, one of my favourite market analyst who sadly passed away wrote about item #2 some years ago. http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article14996.html ........ reports of 400 oz. “good delivery” bricks of gold found gutted and filled with tungsten within the confines of LBMA approved vaults in Hong Kong. Why Tungsten? If anyone were contemplating creating “fake” gold bars, tungsten [at roughly $10 per pound] would be the metal of choice since it has the exact same density as gold making a fake bar salted with tungsten indistinguishable from a solid gold bar by simply weighing it. Unfortunately, there are now more sordid details to report. When the news of tungsten “salted” gold bars in Hong Kong first surfaced, many people who I am acquainted with automatically assumed that these bars were manufactured in China – because China is generally viewed as “the knock-off capital of the world”. Here’s what I now understand really happened: The amount of “salted tungsten” gold bars in question was allegedly between 5,600 and 5,700 – 400 oz – good delivery bars [roughly 60 metric tonnes]. This was apparently all highly orchestrated by an extremely well financed criminal operation. Within mere hours of this scam being identified – Chinese officials had many of the perpetrators in custody. And here’s what the Chinese allegedly uncovered: Roughly 15 years ago – during the Clinton Administration [think Robert Rubin, Sir Alan Greenspan and Lawrence Summers] – between 1.3 and 1.5 million 400 oz tungsten blanks were allegedly manufactured by a very high-end, sophisticated refiner in the USA [more than 16 Thousand metric tonnes]. Subsequently, 640,000 of these tungsten blanks received their gold plating and WERE shipped to Ft. Knox and remain there to this day. I know folks who have copies of the original shipping docs with dates and exact weights of “tungsten” bars shipped to Ft. Knox.

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Look on eBay and you will found that there is a replica of this coin for sale. Though this seller does state it is a "Retro" "Souvenir" meaning a copy. Others sellers may not be so forth coming and try to pass it on as genuine. But your coins seems genuine to me. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Retro-Edward-VII-1905-Shilling-Souvenir-Gap-Filler-Same-size-as-/354702908250?hash=item5295f0db5a:g:gJUAAOSwzAFkMEqo&amdata=enc:AQAIAAAA4PNc3eQt8njz0nGJpL2heDrXm7G+jwtPr0TK0W1+1ZslOcghNURq5YR2vThAdZSioE/A/peDxI1ls65ipdT82AXVfG6xAQ0K66hV+g0kvPkPYNLAMeumWFRh/Dp6MKcfGGJl8hjdQC3Kp0YGi1Uq5LgFj2K36UP+NCixN3S8Owgw98NhCNjkRVJaxbdbkudXuaeavXCfqhw4j1JG647IhfFPFt0lgmZ58d2vCeIgJfAQF9BDClQk3ILhcXdmGCOFhv7QTU9AG/vvfHjnHMode39jJuL7PI/fnc3f0o1m42rg|tkp:Bk9SR7SX0MW2Yg&pageci=da0e3ea2-cb97-4fe0-88cc-71ad504232af&redirect=mobile

Yes, it is a cracking coin. But the premium is a bit high though, currently priced at £1729.

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Incorrect. They are available (pre-sale) at LPM, a large Hong Kong bullion dealer.

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I added it to the shopping cart, clicked Check Out and noticed there is a discount code box for further reduction. Has anyone got the discount code ? 😁

On TSF where there are more members from the UK, I suspect the silver Britannia would be the most popular followed by the silver Maple Leaf. The 1oz silver Maple Leaf was first introduced back in 1988 and has been mass produced and sold at a low premium. So any seasoned stackers will have a number of these in their collection. By comparison, the silver Krugerrand is very much a new kid on the block, first introduced back in 2017 albeit a premium edition. So my vote is Britannia then Maple. Final answer !

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I think you meant AU53. I agree with you, the coin looks nothing like AU53 grade. Below is the NGC description of grading scale. To me, it's more like VF35 or XF40 at best. Maybe the grader was in a very good mood on the day !

The most common payment type in mainland China is WeChatPay, with AliPay probably being a distant second place. These form of payments are similar to PayPal but you pay via an App on your smartphone. Since March 2023, I have travelled into four provinces inside of China. At supermarkets, I either pay with cash or via the AliPay app. Where all this facial recognition and cbdc at supermarkets comes from I have no idea. It's one thing seeing a couple of videos on China versus actually being there yourself on the ground. There are too many armchair experts around for my liking.

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