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Right better go out to graft now - earn some fiat debt tokens for the credit card bill lol
wish me luck - good luck anyone who joins the graces gravy train today - Choo-Choo !!   

Hey @HarryK welcome to the community
You can't go wrong with 1oz Britannia's, especially the 2021 which is an absolutely stunning coin.
Everyone will have a different opinion, and the longer you stack the more you will come to realise what works best for yourself according to what you like and have learned along the way. There is no better way to gain knowledge than to do. As a newbie you begin stacking/collecting essentially blind, guided mainly by the youtube videos one watches at first, you will learn by doing. It's like anything else, success and knowledge are guaranteed when you take action.
The best action you have taken so far is to have made your way here to The Silver Forum! 👏
You will find the best deals in the forum Buy & Sell Trade Section and if you have a premium membership you will have access to the best deals available anywhere, you can view the benefits of premium membership here  One of my favourite benefits is seeing premium listings 3 days earlier than non-premium members, this is how you get the cheapest prices! 💰 The best deals are always gone in minutes!
The Britannia 1oz .999 Fine Silver bullion coins 2013-2021 are a solid piece of silver to stack, especially when you are a U.K Citizen. They are highly recognizable, one of the top bullion coins, easy to buy and sell and the 2021 in particular is very secure and beautiful, I will have some listed tomorrow if you are interested! The Britannia has to be the number one coin for British stackers and top 3 for Worldwide. Britannia's for Brits are capital gains tax exempt, which is useful. In my opinion, the best 1oz coin to stack in The U.K. Build a 2021 Britannia foundation upon which you can grow your stack and your setting yourself off to a good start.
The 2oz Greyhound's are a good coin to stack. They are the last in the silver bullion Queen's Beasts series, 2oz is a great weight and size of coin, capital gains tax exempt, desirable to sell in the future for completion of Queen's Beasts series, maybe a good coin you can sit on if bought in volume. One con is that sets will most likely pull you in and you would personally have to backdate the set if you wanted to collect the Queen's Beasts for yourself, which will cost more because of the premium on the older coins in the series, this is a minor and possibly insignificant problem though. The Queen's Beasts series is known well outside of U.K, it's an excellent series, greyhound is the last and is easy to sell now and in the future if you want to liquidate.
The 10oz are probably less liquid but the 10 oz White Lion is part of The Queen's Beasts series so valuable as coins required for a set that others need to complete, the run is not over and you will be able to acquire the later 10oz silver Queen's Beasts without a premium that you would pay further down the line as the set progresses if you chose to collect The Queen's Beasts set in 10oz .999 Silver. 
Silver is silver.
No matter the weight or the design it has an inherent value, whatever silver you purchase you will always be able to sell or stack as a store of wealth, for a Brit, you can't go wrong with the coins you have chosen. Spend some time in the forum, get to know some members, complete a few trades, get a premium membership for the best deals and as you stack your silver, if you need to buy or sell, you will always be guaranteed a trade here no matter what silver you stack.
Best wishes to you and your stack to be!
🙂
 
 

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No conditions whatsoever, it's common sense that price relative to other volumes of the same quantity available from trusted sources would factor into selling, as does attitude and awareness. Especially attitude. Trust isn't automatically given, it's earned. Reputation is built. These are the "conditions" that aid selling anything and they are not exclusive to selling silver, it applies to the art of selling in general. 
The Silver Forum provides the opportunity to develop reputation and trust, anybody can take the opportunity and sell successfully.
Price competitively, be clear in your listings, be kind and communicative and build reputation and standing and you will succeed at selling, completing sales is not a given just by being here and listing something. Nothing is a given like that in selling anywhere. You have to work it. If one expects to sell just because they list an item but fail, then one needs to identify possible reasons the listing is not successful. Adjust price, adjust quantity, offer a deal better than others, state you would be willing to use an intermediary service for selling a large quantity of silver if you have no rep and expect buyer's to send you hundreds of pounds for something with no real security other than reputation to rely on. There are a million things one can do to make a sale happen. It's essential one is objective and not emotional about it.
I stand by my statement of "Whatever silver you purchase you will be able to sell because silver has inherent value" because this statement is true and is not with conditions, it may only be perceived as having conditions if one assumes that selling something is as simple as listing it then people buy it, no, it takes work, reputation and a good attitude.
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test everything , remember the stuff i get is normally listed at £27+ per ounce  

How often do you have problems with fakes? 

Likewise, a lot to learn

Hi Harry
I'm a newbie myself as in complete novice
Bought a few new 1oz Britannia's because they are stunning and well it was the patriotic thing to do 😁
The more you purchase the cheaper they are. In the meantime I'm slowly educating myself by comparing prices lurking here and using Google to  check any terminology I don't understand.
Good luck!
 

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Hey @HarryK welcome to the community
You can't go wrong with 1oz Britannia's, especially the 2021 which is an absolutely stunning coin.
Everyone will have a different opinion, and the longer you stack the more you will come to realise what works best for yourself according to what you like and have learned along the way. There is no better way to gain knowledge than to do. As a newbie you begin stacking/collecting essentially blind, guided mainly by the youtube videos one watches at first, you will learn by doing. It's like anything else, success and knowledge are guaranteed when you take action.
The best action you have taken so far is to have made your way here to The Silver Forum! 👏
You will find the best deals in the forum Buy & Sell Trade Section and if you have a premium membership you will have access to the best deals available anywhere, you can view the benefits of premium membership here  One of my favourite benefits is seeing premium listings 3 days earlier than non-premium members, this is how you get the cheapest prices! 💰 The best deals are always gone in minutes!
The Britannia 1oz .999 Fine Silver bullion coins 2013-2021 are a solid piece of silver to stack, especially when you are a U.K Citizen. They are highly recognizable, one of the top bullion coins, easy to buy and sell and the 2021 in particular is very secure and beautiful, I will have some listed tomorrow if you are interested! The Britannia has to be the number one coin for British stackers and top 3 for Worldwide. Britannia's for Brits are capital gains tax exempt, which is useful. In my opinion, the best 1oz coin to stack in The U.K. Build a 2021 Britannia foundation upon which you can grow your stack and your setting yourself off to a good start.
The 2oz Greyhound's are a good coin to stack. They are the last in the silver bullion Queen's Beasts series, 2oz is a great weight and size of coin, capital gains tax exempt, desirable to sell in the future for completion of Queen's Beasts series, maybe a good coin you can sit on if bought in volume. One con is that sets will most likely pull you in and you would personally have to backdate the set if you wanted to collect the Queen's Beasts for yourself, which will cost more because of the premium on the older coins in the series, this is a minor and possibly insignificant problem though. The Queen's Beasts series is known well outside of U.K, it's an excellent series, greyhound is the last and is easy to sell now and in the future if you want to liquidate.
The 10oz are probably less liquid but the 10 oz White Lion is part of The Queen's Beasts series so valuable as coins required for a set that others need to complete, the run is not over and you will be able to acquire the later 10oz silver Queen's Beasts without a premium that you would pay further down the line as the set progresses if you chose to collect The Queen's Beasts set in 10oz .999 Silver. 
Silver is silver.
No matter the weight or the design it has an inherent value, whatever silver you purchase you will always be able to sell or stack as a store of wealth, for a Brit, you can't go wrong with the coins you have chosen. Spend some time in the forum, get to know some members, complete a few trades, get a premium membership for the best deals and as you stack your silver, if you need to buy or sell, you will always be guaranteed a trade here no matter what silver you stack.
Best wishes to you and your stack to be!
🙂
 
 

Hey @HarryK welcome to the community
You can't go wrong with 1oz Britannia's, especially the 2021 which is an absolutely stunning coin.
Everyone will have a different opinion, and the longer you stack the more you will come to realise what works best for yourself according to what you like and have learned along the way. There is no better way to gain knowledge than to do. As a newbie you begin stacking/collecting essentially blind, guided mainly by the youtube videos one watches at first, you will learn by doing. It's like anything else, success and knowledge are guaranteed when you take action.
The best action you have taken so far is to have made your way here to The Silver Forum! 👏
You will find the best deals in the forum Buy & Sell Trade Section and if you have a premium membership you will have access to the best deals available anywhere, you can view the benefits of premium membership here  One of my favourite benefits is seeing premium listings 3 days earlier than non-premium members, this is how you get the cheapest prices! 💰 The best deals are always gone in minutes!
The Britannia 1oz .999 Fine Silver bullion coins 2013-2021 are a solid piece of silver to stack, especially when you are a U.K Citizen. They are highly recognizable, one of the top bullion coins, easy to buy and sell and the 2021 in particular is very secure and beautiful, I will have some listed tomorrow if you are interested! The Britannia has to be the number one coin for British stackers and top 3 for Worldwide. Britannia's for Brits are capital gains tax exempt, which is useful. In my opinion, the best 1oz coin to stack in The U.K. Build a 2021 Britannia foundation upon which you can grow your stack and your setting yourself off to a good start.
The 2oz Greyhound's are a good coin to stack. They are the last in the silver bullion Queen's Beasts series, 2oz is a great weight and size of coin, capital gains tax exempt, desirable to sell in the future for completion of Queen's Beasts series, maybe a good coin you can sit on if bought in volume. One con is that sets will most likely pull you in and you would personally have to backdate the set if you wanted to collect the Queen's Beasts for yourself, which will cost more because of the premium on the older coins in the series, this is a minor and possibly insignificant problem though. The Queen's Beasts series is known well outside of U.K, it's an excellent series, greyhound is the last and is easy to sell now and in the future if you want to liquidate.
The 10oz are probably less liquid but the 10 oz White Lion is part of The Queen's Beasts series so valuable as coins required for a set that others need to complete, the run is not over and you will be able to acquire the later 10oz silver Queen's Beasts without a premium that you would pay further down the line as the set progresses if you chose to collect The Queen's Beasts set in 10oz .999 Silver. 
Silver is silver.
No matter the weight or the design it has an inherent value, whatever silver you purchase you will always be able to sell or stack as a store of wealth, for a Brit, you can't go wrong with the coins you have chosen. Spend some time in the forum, get to know some members, complete a few trades, get a premium membership for the best deals and as you stack your silver, if you need to buy or sell, you will always be guaranteed a trade here no matter what silver you stack.
Best wishes to you and your stack to be!
🙂
 
 

Hey @HarryK welcome to the community
You can't go wrong with 1oz Britannia's, especially the 2021 which is an absolutely stunning coin.
Everyone will have a different opinion, and the longer you stack the more you will come to realise what works best for yourself according to what you like and have learned along the way. There is no better way to gain knowledge than to do. As a newbie you begin stacking/collecting essentially blind, guided mainly by the youtube videos one watches at first, you will learn by doing. It's like anything else, success and knowledge are guaranteed when you take action.
The best action you have taken so far is to have made your way here to The Silver Forum! 👏
You will find the best deals in the forum Buy & Sell Trade Section and if you have a premium membership you will have access to the best deals available anywhere, you can view the benefits of premium membership here  One of my favourite benefits is seeing premium listings 3 days earlier than non-premium members, this is how you get the cheapest prices! 💰 The best deals are always gone in minutes!
The Britannia 1oz .999 Fine Silver bullion coins 2013-2021 are a solid piece of silver to stack, especially when you are a U.K Citizen. They are highly recognizable, one of the top bullion coins, easy to buy and sell and the 2021 in particular is very secure and beautiful, I will have some listed tomorrow if you are interested! The Britannia has to be the number one coin for British stackers and top 3 for Worldwide. Britannia's for Brits are capital gains tax exempt, which is useful. In my opinion, the best 1oz coin to stack in The U.K. Build a 2021 Britannia foundation upon which you can grow your stack and your setting yourself off to a good start.
The 2oz Greyhound's are a good coin to stack. They are the last in the silver bullion Queen's Beasts series, 2oz is a great weight and size of coin, capital gains tax exempt, desirable to sell in the future for completion of Queen's Beasts series, maybe a good coin you can sit on if bought in volume. One con is that sets will most likely pull you in and you would personally have to backdate the set if you wanted to collect the Queen's Beasts for yourself, which will cost more because of the premium on the older coins in the series, this is a minor and possibly insignificant problem though. The Queen's Beasts series is known well outside of U.K, it's an excellent series, greyhound is the last and is easy to sell now and in the future if you want to liquidate.
The 10oz are probably less liquid but the 10 oz White Lion is part of The Queen's Beasts series so valuable as coins required for a set that others need to complete, the run is not over and you will be able to acquire the later 10oz silver Queen's Beasts without a premium that you would pay further down the line as the set progresses if you chose to collect The Queen's Beasts set in 10oz .999 Silver. 
Silver is silver.
No matter the weight or the design it has an inherent value, whatever silver you purchase you will always be able to sell or stack as a store of wealth, for a Brit, you can't go wrong with the coins you have chosen. Spend some time in the forum, get to know some members, complete a few trades, get a premium membership for the best deals and as you stack your silver, if you need to buy or sell, you will always be guaranteed a trade here no matter what silver you stack.
Best wishes to you and your stack to be!
🙂
 
 

Billy silver have a great explanation above but if I can chime in on some things I found when I started stacking earlier on last year.
I think you need to decide are you a stacker, a collector or both. They are different in my opinion. 
STACKING
Don't buy single coins that have high postage cost as it drives your £ per oz cost real high, I spent +50gbp for two 1 oz silver bars. I got a much better price buying a tube of Britannias. It sure does cost a lot more immediately but long term they ended up cheaper than the first two bars per oz because I could disperse the cost of postage. Try keep your costs as low as you can so if you can, buy as much as you can at once, even if it means waiting a while till you have an extra few quid to buy bigger. 
For collecting buy for fun and what you like! I absolutely love the Queens beast set so am buying the 2oz rounds, they have a high premium but it's for collecting so I'm not trying to keep costs to bottom dollar. 

Wow! Thanks Billy. Fantastically helpful response.I started collecting Gold Britannias a couple of months ago but now feel it's time to start adding some silver coins.I will take your advice and add Premium membership.Many thanks, much appreciated. 👍

I'm new to the forum and looking to start stacking silver coins. I'm considering 1oz Britannias, 2oz White Greyhounds and 10oz White Lions, all 2021's.Can anyone guide me as to the relative merits or drawbacks with these particular coins?

Please feel free to copy the above template example and to use for your listings if it helps  Please just edit out the sample text above for your own applicable text.

The above is just an option to help and you are free to write your listings how you prefer. If popular may look at an option of pre-filling out trade listings with the above automatically, but again this would just be to help and would be optional for the seller to use. Though it may be beneficial to standardise listings and easier for buyers to see the key info  I will start a topic in the Platinum Lounge to discuss this.
 

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I have uploaded this on the video section of the forum but I fell it won't get the exposure it deserves. For that reason I have made a thread about it.
Those new to the game this is a very informative documentary, great vid to learn some of the fundamentals.   
Big well known names feature, such as Jim Rickards, Rick Rule, Egor Von, list goes on. It is hosted by Grant Williams who is part of Real Vision. 
 
A MUST WATCH, 
Please share your thoughts 
 
https://www.thesilverforum.com/videos/view-930-recent-documentary-on-gold/
 
 

This post is designed to help those members in the UK who are buying gold from other members, either importing from the EU to the UK or from outside the EU to the UK

There are a lot of gold coins that are considered investment gold and therefore VAT exempt. There may therefore be opportunities for UK members to buy from the EU or other markets.
 
Using a Sovereign as an example, our understanding of the definition "is of a description of coin that is normally sold at a price that does not exceed 180% of the open market value of the gold contained in the coin" from information taken from UK dealers is that any sovereign, even those that sell for 10's of thousands of pounds do not attract any import VAT as a sovereign in general sells for not more than 180% of the spot price of gold.

The full information on what gold coins and type of other investment gold except can be found from the following link: 

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/investment-gold-coins-and-vat-notice-70121a

Please also note that members may have experienced VAT incorrectly being added to gold imports into the UK, due to the description used by the sender. If VAT is incorrectly added you can usually claim back the full VAT (I have done this myself) however the courier admin charge (around £8 Royal Mail, and around £11 for other couriers like UPS, is not always claimable back, this depends on the reason why the incorrect VAT was applied) 

This post is correct as far as our knowledge at the time of writing. It should not be constituted as legal or tax advise, members have the responsibility to do their own research and speak with any necessary advisers. TSF can not be held liable for any incorrect VAT that is applied by HMRC or any other import or taxes that are charged due to any purchases by members whatsoever. 

Please check the government website, or start a topic in the discussion area of the forum if you would like to ask members questions and hopefully the TSF community can help. There are likely a lot of members who have experience of buying gold from abroad and can help   


Items are listed in the regions they are located in. So UK members wishing to see items available internationally please see some of the below sections:

See the items listed in the EU trade section, lots of members will ship to UK

See the items listed in the USA & Canada section, many members are also willing to ship worldwide.

A full list of all trade sections on the forum can be found here

Hi All
For anyone with an interest in Sovereigns, I highly recommend getting hold of the auction catalogues for the Bentley Collection.
As well as a sales tool, it has absolutely invaluable information and very clear photographs of some remarkable sovereigns.
I purchased mine from eBay for £20 which I consider an absolute bargain.
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