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Oh. 2008 Mouse please.

FFS. Can people please stop listing these when I am skint. Ta.

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2018 Panda still available?

I'll take a couple if still available?

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1/4oz dragon available?

I know I am way too late but what lovely looking bars. 👍

Meh. Missed.

I. Didn't. Know. There. Were. So. Many. Pandas. Of. All. Types. My. Poor. Wallet. May. Disappear. Down. The. Bamboo. Shoot. Help.

I'll take a half of the dragon, mouse, monkey, dog and pig if still available. Yeghes da.

I will take a 1/10th maple if available? Many thanks.

🎶 money's too tight to mention🎶

Ok. This is a test as I have never uploaded a picture before (I am a luddite). Courtesy of the Silver Trader a 2024 1oz Gilded Dragon. However which mint (edit Downies) I am unsure (Niue coin). And below is 1oz NZ Mint 2024 Dragon which has flown in from New Zealand (I blame climate change). Also gilded. Not the best pictures but I am not Patrick Litchfield (ask your Dad).

Arrived today. As ever a splendid piece with some lovely ripples. Many thanks to BYB, Chris Silver et al for the opportunity to purchase these pieces.

Covered by Melbourne's finest:

Are you happy to sell 1?

Cracking bars these and nice solid chunks of silver to show off/beat up zombies with/use as vampire repellent/stick in vault. And they help keep this madhouse running. What more could you want? (Don't answer that).

All my birds have flown...! Ah well.

Sure Dave and your interests in this area are laudably clear. I could be really cynical in the observation that it is of course in the interests of grading companies that the fruits of their wares achieve higher prices then unslabbed coins - to the extent that the investment market is essentially forced to grade coins in order to achieve that greater return. And the grading companies can raise their prices in tandem.

If that was a dig in my direction then it's water off a duck's back. I made no comment on whether it was a good or bad thing, merely that I am interested in the motivation of those who offer the service, that the service offered isn't a tablet of stone of which we must all worship but there is, as the market states, a requirement for that service. And that is down to the individual concerned.

Being slightly new to this malarky the thought strikes me - Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Grading isn't a law of physics and as a recent episode of Bullion Now revealed neither is the result perfection when a 70 graded coin in a slab acquired milkspots. Sure, there will be an independent need to confirm that what you're buying is indeed what is being sold but what is the motivation for the grading companies and as the OP stated isn't this solely down to individual preference?

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1 x 2014 and 1 x 2020 please. Many thanks.