SidS

Well that's because I just happened to find the 1850 shilling, knew it was a replica and then saw what else they were peddling, so it's no coincidence.
The problem is though, in the last 5 years there's been a rapid explosion in the populations of these kinds of 'coins', they are everywhere. That wasn't true ten years ago, they were the exception rather than the rule.

Has anyone else picked up on those news side stories about inflation rising? Daily Express (pinch of salt etc.) flashed up on my phone yesterday that BOE are expecting 4%, more than they predicted.
That's the second time now it's been 'more than predicted'.

For some reason I think this is really cool! And I'm not a golf fan.

I was very dubious about the $5 Indian design to start with, I wasn't sure about the whole incuse design thing, just seemed ultra modern etc. Then I saw one in hand... WOW! they're stunning coins. Pictures do them no justice whatsoever.

Found it... It was Colchester - I couldn't have been more at the wrong side of the country!
http://www.colchestertreasurehunting.co.uk/C/coinstraightening.htm
Some pictures of coins before and after, I'm sure there was a description somewhere too.

I was very dubious about the $5 Indian design to start with, I wasn't sure about the whole incuse design thing, just seemed ultra modern etc. Then I saw one in hand... WOW! they're stunning coins. Pictures do them no justice whatsoever.

Vicky shield sovereigns are lovely but they do have a premium.
My first sovereign was a Vicky jubilee. Always like jubilee head coins of any sort, they seem to be more Victorian than the other Victorian coins, if that makes any sense?

Found it... It was Colchester - I couldn't have been more at the wrong side of the country!
http://www.colchestertreasurehunting.co.uk/C/coinstraightening.htm
Some pictures of coins before and after, I'm sure there was a description somewhere too.

Someone will though.
I once happened upon a website where they recorded all the archaeological finds in that area (it might have been Warwickshire or Dorset or somewhere), I can't remember for the life of me.
But their societies' finds department had connections to a restorer who illustrated in detail how he took coins like this and straightened them out without damaging them. It was very skilled and very fascinating.
Whenever you see a coin that says 'creased' it most likely has been a coin that was folded in half at one time or other and has been straightened. So common with Medieval through to late 1700s stuff.
I've had a few half guineas and even the odd quarter noble in the past that probably started out like the coins above. Not to mention sixpences and shillings of William III and Anne vintages.
Gold leopards are a sight to behold I bet, never see one in the flesh though.
Love nobles, I might have to buy another one some day, it's been many, many years since I had one. They ooze history and scream treasure at you, beautiful coins.

Someone will though.
I once happened upon a website where they recorded all the archaeological finds in that area (it might have been Warwickshire or Dorset or somewhere), I can't remember for the life of me.
But their societies' finds department had connections to a restorer who illustrated in detail how he took coins like this and straightened them out without damaging them. It was very skilled and very fascinating.
Whenever you see a coin that says 'creased' it most likely has been a coin that was folded in half at one time or other and has been straightened. So common with Medieval through to late 1700s stuff.
I've had a few half guineas and even the odd quarter noble in the past that probably started out like the coins above. Not to mention sixpences and shillings of William III and Anne vintages.
Gold leopards are a sight to behold I bet, never see one in the flesh though.
Love nobles, I might have to buy another one some day, it's been many, many years since I had one. They ooze history and scream treasure at you, beautiful coins.

I own a small piece of coal recovered from that particular wreck, issued by the company that owns the salvage rights.
I also went to the exhibition they had at the O2 arena back in 2011. It blew my mind that day I can tell you. Long been fascinated by the Olympic Class ships.

The Tories face a future crisis for sure.
In much the same way as Labour, who once thrived in the late 1990s by appealing to a wide voter base are now irrevocably split between trying to appease the leave voting working classes and trying not lose the newer metropolitan remain voting, middle class woke. Irreconcilable really.
The Tories are building in their own future nightmare, the new ex-red wall leave voters they picked up in the last election who want investment and money spending, versus more traditional fiscally conservative/small government Tories. There's no way to keep both sides happy when the buck stops.
There's trouble on the horizon, politically and economically.

I didn't know what TPTB are either, I just make up my own when I don't know. Tomato, Potato, Tuna and Broccoli, or was it Bacon?

I didn't know what TPTB are either, I just make up my own when I don't know. Tomato, Potato, Tuna and Broccoli, or was it Bacon?

Ah when sovereigns were £60 a piece, those were the days!
And to think I thought shield sovereigns were overpriced at £80 each.

And I'll buy them at £45 each! Don't worry you'll always be able to sell them. 😁

This is why I point blank refused to sign up to the new system. Having card/bank details with PayPal is one thing (not great if the PayPal account gets compromised), but giving eBay direct access to my bank account, basically a signed blank cheque, I'm not happy with that. At least with PayPal I had to authorise the payment by signing in and actually clicking 'pay' for each transaction.

Mike Maloney, who owns a gold company. That said he did a very interesting series on YouTube called the History of Money.
Increased currency supply + velocity = inflation

Same here, I was looking for it too!
As for an earlier comment someone made about it not being easy to shift. When I put the small bit I had on eBay two years ago, it flew off the shelf and went for about £20-£30 over spot - and that was with no reserve and a 99p start. I let the market find itself.

Nope smaller palladium is few and far between.
When everyone is banging on about a massive silver shortage as if it's rare and unobtainable, take a look at palladium I say. It could be months, or maybe only once or twice in the whole year you actually see any bullion palladium for sale, especially the smaller stuff. This wasn't the case 15 years ago, palladium was relatively plentiful.

The date missing on the obverse made me scream fake, thinking that's a very poor $5 Indian copy.
Then realised it's a knock off bullion coin by the looks.

In a word, no.
First, I don't think silver is going to hit the moon.
I bought into the hype back when silver was $5/oz, the fiat crash was coming, just around the corner in fact, the dollar was going to go down and burn.
Well it didn't. Did it lose purchasing power? Yes it did.
Has it been highly inflated since the early 2000s? Yes, for sure.
Has silver gone to the moon? Well that depends how high the moon is, $20? $30? or $40? 
What I did see was a healthy profit on those 50 or so oz of silver I'd accumulated at $5. So was it a bad move? No it certainly wasn't, it was quite lucrative in fact and I'm still in profit on all of those holdings.
The biggest problem for silver is that the financial system is heavily rigged against it. They will always find a way to knock the price down. Should silver be worth more? Yes probably.
So Basel III arrives, it won't make much difference they'll just restructure how they do the price knockdown. If the market is so lucrative for the big banks they'll find a way around the rules, they have lots of lawyers etc. All good for finding legal loopholes.
The whole banking crisis of 2008 was supposed to have brought in reforms and tightened up credit and brought about responsible lending. To be honest, people have short memories and I don't think much has changed, if anything it's same old, same old. The lure of a quick buck being simply too strong to resist, they'll just have rebranded and reworked how they run the same old schemes.
Am I a cynic? Yes totally.
So what if silver does head to $100, $1000 an oz? Well if that happens then there is a wider currency crisis at hand and that will result in one of two things: a revaluation - a la Turkey, where they knock a few zeros off the currency. So your $1000 oz of silver, suddenly becomes worth 10 new dollars. Or they will switch to a digital currency where your £1000 oz of silver becomes worth 15 Britcoins.
If silver does make $1000 per oz, then I ask you what will the price of bread be, $750 a loaf?
A rapidly rising silver price won't equal life changing profits in a currency collapse, it will hopefully simply sustain your current net worth until recalibrated into a new currency format. Or at best give you a tidy profit, like my $5 oz purchase going up to $20/$30. Can't exactly retire on it though can I?
I suspect the price this decade will mostly fluctuate between $15-$35 oz. We might break ground at $50 an oz by the late 2030s, based on the steady erosion of inflation.
If a pandemic and worldwide lockdown can't send silver heavily skyward, nor conflicts throughout the 2000s, 9/11 or the banking crisis of 2008, then I struggle to forsee what could send it to the moon and make it stay there.
Maybe we'll hit $100 by the end of the century? 2100 here's looking at you...

Guess I won't be buying any more Standing Liberty Quarters from the states via eBay. I'll just go straight to the dealers direct and cut out the middleman. eBay's greed will be it's undoing and very fast.

In a word, no.
First, I don't think silver is going to hit the moon.
I bought into the hype back when silver was $5/oz, the fiat crash was coming, just around the corner in fact, the dollar was going to go down and burn.
Well it didn't. Did it lose purchasing power? Yes it did.
Has it been highly inflated since the early 2000s? Yes, for sure.
Has silver gone to the moon? Well that depends how high the moon is, $20? $30? or $40? 
What I did see was a healthy profit on those 50 or so oz of silver I'd accumulated at $5. So was it a bad move? No it certainly wasn't, it was quite lucrative in fact and I'm still in profit on all of those holdings.
The biggest problem for silver is that the financial system is heavily rigged against it. They will always find a way to knock the price down. Should silver be worth more? Yes probably.
So Basel III arrives, it won't make much difference they'll just restructure how they do the price knockdown. If the market is so lucrative for the big banks they'll find a way around the rules, they have lots of lawyers etc. All good for finding legal loopholes.
The whole banking crisis of 2008 was supposed to have brought in reforms and tightened up credit and brought about responsible lending. To be honest, people have short memories and I don't think much has changed, if anything it's same old, same old. The lure of a quick buck being simply too strong to resist, they'll just have rebranded and reworked how they run the same old schemes.
Am I a cynic? Yes totally.
So what if silver does head to $100, $1000 an oz? Well if that happens then there is a wider currency crisis at hand and that will result in one of two things: a revaluation - a la Turkey, where they knock a few zeros off the currency. So your $1000 oz of silver, suddenly becomes worth 10 new dollars. Or they will switch to a digital currency where your £1000 oz of silver becomes worth 15 Britcoins.
If silver does make $1000 per oz, then I ask you what will the price of bread be, $750 a loaf?
A rapidly rising silver price won't equal life changing profits in a currency collapse, it will hopefully simply sustain your current net worth until recalibrated into a new currency format. Or at best give you a tidy profit, like my $5 oz purchase going up to $20/$30. Can't exactly retire on it though can I?
I suspect the price this decade will mostly fluctuate between $15-$35 oz. We might break ground at $50 an oz by the late 2030s, based on the steady erosion of inflation.
If a pandemic and worldwide lockdown can't send silver heavily skyward, nor conflicts throughout the 2000s, 9/11 or the banking crisis of 2008, then I struggle to forsee what could send it to the moon and make it stay there.
Maybe we'll hit $100 by the end of the century? 2100 here's looking at you...

In a word, no.
First, I don't think silver is going to hit the moon.
I bought into the hype back when silver was $5/oz, the fiat crash was coming, just around the corner in fact, the dollar was going to go down and burn.
Well it didn't. Did it lose purchasing power? Yes it did.
Has it been highly inflated since the early 2000s? Yes, for sure.
Has silver gone to the moon? Well that depends how high the moon is, $20? $30? or $40? 
What I did see was a healthy profit on those 50 or so oz of silver I'd accumulated at $5. So was it a bad move? No it certainly wasn't, it was quite lucrative in fact and I'm still in profit on all of those holdings.
The biggest problem for silver is that the financial system is heavily rigged against it. They will always find a way to knock the price down. Should silver be worth more? Yes probably.
So Basel III arrives, it won't make much difference they'll just restructure how they do the price knockdown. If the market is so lucrative for the big banks they'll find a way around the rules, they have lots of lawyers etc. All good for finding legal loopholes.
The whole banking crisis of 2008 was supposed to have brought in reforms and tightened up credit and brought about responsible lending. To be honest, people have short memories and I don't think much has changed, if anything it's same old, same old. The lure of a quick buck being simply too strong to resist, they'll just have rebranded and reworked how they run the same old schemes.
Am I a cynic? Yes totally.
So what if silver does head to $100, $1000 an oz? Well if that happens then there is a wider currency crisis at hand and that will result in one of two things: a revaluation - a la Turkey, where they knock a few zeros off the currency. So your $1000 oz of silver, suddenly becomes worth 10 new dollars. Or they will switch to a digital currency where your £1000 oz of silver becomes worth 15 Britcoins.
If silver does make $1000 per oz, then I ask you what will the price of bread be, $750 a loaf?
A rapidly rising silver price won't equal life changing profits in a currency collapse, it will hopefully simply sustain your current net worth until recalibrated into a new currency format. Or at best give you a tidy profit, like my $5 oz purchase going up to $20/$30. Can't exactly retire on it though can I?
I suspect the price this decade will mostly fluctuate between $15-$35 oz. We might break ground at $50 an oz by the late 2030s, based on the steady erosion of inflation.
If a pandemic and worldwide lockdown can't send silver heavily skyward, nor conflicts throughout the 2000s, 9/11 or the banking crisis of 2008, then I struggle to forsee what could send it to the moon and make it stay there.
Maybe we'll hit $100 by the end of the century? 2100 here's looking at you...