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I always think of Ripper Street and the quote by Joseph Mawle that London (specifically Whitechapel in the series) is the fundament of the world. 😁
I've never liked London, okay for a flying visit, always glad to leave it at the end of the day.

Is this the old argument about whether Winterfell is in the north? 🤔
Manchester, like Winterfell, is in the north, but it's still a long way south of the Wall and the true north. 😁

I always think of Ripper Street and the quote by Joseph Mawle that London (specifically Whitechapel in the series) is the fundament of the world. 😁
I've never liked London, okay for a flying visit, always glad to leave it at the end of the day.

I can give a bit of perspective on this one.
First, I have collected both gold and silver in the past. The silver I kept, the gold I sold off entirely.
I had a number of sovereigns, half sovereigns and some half guineas. Some I was quite attached to and liked, particularly my 1688, 1769 half guineas, my 1912 half sovereign (my first gold coin) and my 1889 sovereign. Bought them between 1994 and 2003, so as you can imagine gold was trading at $250-$350 an ounce (Brown's bottom). All bought dirt cheap compared to today's prices.
Then the gold price shot up on the way to what was the ATH in 2011, I bailed out of gold in 2009-2010 and cashed in very well, but below the high. I don't regret that at all, missing the 2011 high and all, I did okay. But imagine where I'd be sat now if I still had it? Much better still.
I do miss the coins I mentioned above, the rest I was happy to part with and have no regrets from a sentimental point of view.
The silver I kept and have added to over the years - I wish I'd stuck with gold to be honest and ditched the silver in 2010, but alas hindsight.
So you can regret it both ways, parting and wishing you hadn't, but also not parting and wishing you had. Silver bought at $5-$25 an ounce, I could have cashed in at $30-$40 an ounce and put it into gold. But the silver is still here and bubbling along, not exactly in the red, but not exactly exciting.

I can give a bit of perspective on this one.
First, I have collected both gold and silver in the past. The silver I kept, the gold I sold off entirely.
I had a number of sovereigns, half sovereigns and some half guineas. Some I was quite attached to and liked, particularly my 1688, 1769 half guineas, my 1912 half sovereign (my first gold coin) and my 1889 sovereign. Bought them between 1994 and 2003, so as you can imagine gold was trading at $250-$350 an ounce (Brown's bottom). All bought dirt cheap compared to today's prices.
Then the gold price shot up on the way to what was the ATH in 2011, I bailed out of gold in 2009-2010 and cashed in very well, but below the high. I don't regret that at all, missing the 2011 high and all, I did okay. But imagine where I'd be sat now if I still had it? Much better still.
I do miss the coins I mentioned above, the rest I was happy to part with and have no regrets from a sentimental point of view.
The silver I kept and have added to over the years - I wish I'd stuck with gold to be honest and ditched the silver in 2010, but alas hindsight.
So you can regret it both ways, parting and wishing you hadn't, but also not parting and wishing you had. Silver bought at $5-$25 an ounce, I could have cashed in at $30-$40 an ounce and put it into gold. But the silver is still here and bubbling along, not exactly in the red, but not exactly exciting.

I can give a bit of perspective on this one.
First, I have collected both gold and silver in the past. The silver I kept, the gold I sold off entirely.
I had a number of sovereigns, half sovereigns and some half guineas. Some I was quite attached to and liked, particularly my 1688, 1769 half guineas, my 1912 half sovereign (my first gold coin) and my 1889 sovereign. Bought them between 1994 and 2003, so as you can imagine gold was trading at $250-$350 an ounce (Brown's bottom). All bought dirt cheap compared to today's prices.
Then the gold price shot up on the way to what was the ATH in 2011, I bailed out of gold in 2009-2010 and cashed in very well, but below the high. I don't regret that at all, missing the 2011 high and all, I did okay. But imagine where I'd be sat now if I still had it? Much better still.
I do miss the coins I mentioned above, the rest I was happy to part with and have no regrets from a sentimental point of view.
The silver I kept and have added to over the years - I wish I'd stuck with gold to be honest and ditched the silver in 2010, but alas hindsight.
So you can regret it both ways, parting and wishing you hadn't, but also not parting and wishing you had. Silver bought at $5-$25 an ounce, I could have cashed in at $30-$40 an ounce and put it into gold. But the silver is still here and bubbling along, not exactly in the red, but not exactly exciting.

I'm still waiting for Brown's bottom...
Hmm maybe I should rephrase that? 🤔

The First Great Train Robbery with Sean Connery pinching a shipment of gold.
Lethal Weapon 2 - plenty of Krugerrands
Lavender Hill Mob - I believe this was a gold heist film too.

I'm still waiting for Brown's bottom...
Hmm maybe I should rephrase that? 🤔

The mint have been withdrawing those old 5p/10ps from circulation since 2012-3 for recycling.
I'm still surprised to find so many in circulation after 8 years of solid culling.
Maybe we should help them?
Mind you I've got about £40 face value of pre-decimal cupro-nickel junk. Maybe that's worth a bob or two now... 😁

I'm still waiting for Brown's bottom...
Hmm maybe I should rephrase that? 🤔

I'm still waiting for Brown's bottom...
Hmm maybe I should rephrase that? 🤔

She absolutely was, stunning.

I've got about a Kilo of pure tin some where.
I just wish I'd kept my lump of nickel.

1987 for me.

1987 for me.

Well he got what he wanted, not in the way he wanted perhaps.

The First Great Train Robbery with Sean Connery pinching a shipment of gold.
Lethal Weapon 2 - plenty of Krugerrands
Lavender Hill Mob - I believe this was a gold heist film too.

My first hammered coin, not worth much. I got it for about £10 back in 1994. Not even that pretty, Edward I 10A Canterbury mint.
Then Braveheart was released a year or two later and I thought, "Hey I've got a Patrick McGoohan coin".

Just imagine what Gordon Brown could have done with that extra $3.1 billion in gold if we'd got it!
On a more serious note didn't Venezuela request their gold back from the BoE and they were refused because the the UK government didn't think they were fit to have it. Opposed their government or something. Same arguments the States used with Afghanistan I believe.
Which then begs the question, do they actually have the gold?
Hmm... 

Looks like we should have been stacking lead mate! 😁

About 80 pieces of silver.

I crease with laughter every time that actress Tuppence Middleton appears in a film, I just think, poor unfortunate woman. Being a British actress as well, she'd have got some right stick at school with that name. I know when I was at secondary school, the term 'tuppence' was used a lot. I don't buy the Google definitions that it's an old fashioned term.

Looks like we should have been stacking lead mate! 😁