Furnace

The, wait, why did I proselytize my wife into becoming a silver ape (?) ending.

The hallmark looks like it might be Italian. 

I received this little guy today Hes about 142g and about 10-11 cm tall and stamped 925 in a couple of places. Just wondering if anyone has any info on him ?

Hello all, I was hunting around at home for a long lost Playstation 2 power lead when I found a plastic cup of mixed coins from my travels all over the world. I started going through them thinking I might find some silver quarters when I found what I think is a 1694 Godless Elephant token. The condition isn't great and has been made a bit worse by some of the other coins rusting a bit at some point. Just thought I'd share it with you on here.
Thanks and have a great bank holiday weekend.

Another cheeky purchase for myself 
The stunning 
2021 TEMPUS FUGIT 2oz 

Hello all, I was hunting around at home for a long lost Playstation 2 power lead when I found a plastic cup of mixed coins from my travels all over the world. I started going through them thinking I might find some silver quarters when I found what I think is a 1694 Godless Elephant token. The condition isn't great and has been made a bit worse by some of the other coins rusting a bit at some point. Just thought I'd share it with you on here.
Thanks and have a great bank holiday weekend.

Hello all, I was hunting around at home for a long lost Playstation 2 power lead when I found a plastic cup of mixed coins from my travels all over the world. I started going through them thinking I might find some silver quarters when I found what I think is a 1694 Godless Elephant token. The condition isn't great and has been made a bit worse by some of the other coins rusting a bit at some point. Just thought I'd share it with you on here.
Thanks and have a great bank holiday weekend.

Hello all, I was hunting around at home for a long lost Playstation 2 power lead when I found a plastic cup of mixed coins from my travels all over the world. I started going through them thinking I might find some silver quarters when I found what I think is a 1694 Godless Elephant token. The condition isn't great and has been made a bit worse by some of the other coins rusting a bit at some point. Just thought I'd share it with you on here.
Thanks and have a great bank holiday weekend.

Well done @SilverStorm

I have just gone to fractional gold until silver sorts itself out again and I can see what the premiums do,and gold could have a major shake up if the banking regs change in the next couple of months,although I am still buying silver,as like you I am long term not not buying and selling,it never hurts to have a little gold in the box.

I cant see it being squeezed at all - dismayed at the time I have put into it.
I'm hoping central banks make a point  and put it to £14 again.

Miner stocks will go down also with any market collapse - on the cards! SOON. 
a £20 brit is my buy in rate as I get it from the EU. I will be making a few orders. 

Personally I think silver is way over priced at the moment, the premiums are out of this world, don't get me wrong if something pops up that's a good price and worth buying then go for it. But I don't think you can go to far wrong with gold if you're looking to hold for a long time. 
Thats just my opinion and some may disagree, can't go wrong with doing your own research and buying what ever suits you best mate.
Good luck 👍

@Furnace For me gold and sovereigns in particular for the following reasons:
- Gold has lowest premiums, no VAT and no CGT for British coins
- Sovereigns are trading close to spot price, particularly pre-owned pot luck coins
- They’re easy to buy and sell
-  They don’t have to be declared on home contents insurance
- For me sovereigns are rather uninspiring to look at, which helps to have emotional detachment (please, don’t cast your spells at me)
- Nevertheless, it’s always exiting to wait for some pot luck sovereigns in the post, you never know what dates you’ll get
- And finally, Gold is like God, just lose the letter L (btw it’s a joke lol)
Having said all that, your collecting strategy has to represent your goals.

Gold. I have more silver than gold but I’m concentrating more on gold now for long term. I bought silver over five years ago that has doubled in price that when I sell will be used to buy gold. I still buy silver on the forum and elsewhere but not in big bars. Nothing wrong with buying both. It’s still precious and will sell again. Buy Sovereigns and Britannia’s as they are VAT and CGT free. The forum is a great place to buy from but Sharpe’s pixley, ATS bullion, and the other big precious metal dealers have some good prices. If you get chance buy some older American gold coins. They are great looking. Have fun collecting but be careful. It’s addictive. 😁

Thanks for your comments its very helpful and much appreciated 👍

You can't go wrong with sovereigns and one ounce Brits.  They are typically what I purchase (bar this month as I purchased some small 2.5 g bars - fancied a change).

For me personally, it is gold at the moment.
I believe the premiums being charged on silver, plus the VAT makes it far less attractive than gold.  I may well be wrong, but that's my thoughts as it stands now.
I would rather purchase 2 x sovereigns with the money over a kilo of silver.
Is it a one time investment, or regular (as and when funds allow) purchase?  Are you looking to purchase as close to spot price as possible, or will you be more attracted to the numismatic (collecting / collectable) side of things?
Ultimately, people on forums will have their own views and opinions.  Read widely, take your time and purchase what makes you feel happy 🙂

Gold long term hold, unless it skyrockets in price,
Silver to trade and speculate on price fluctuations. 
Gold is still high IMO and can go lower at some point, but I think it will rally now. 

I would prefer having a small box of gold in a depression over silver. 
If the worst happened you can easily carry it through customs. 
so as a hedge gold is much better to trade, barter or liquidate.
Its smaller (easier to hide) & does not spot or mark like silver.

I would prefer to have a few Kilos of silver if that doubles of quadruples though.
I think we might see this this year or next?? Who knows. 

I buy gold regularly when its under valued & silver when its under £18/19, ideally £17. 

Long term........Sovereigns or 1oz gold UK coins.

Overall I want to make any purchases as close to spot as I can and I'm not too bothered about collecting numismatic coins unless one really takes my fancy. Quite keen on getting some sovereigns. 

Hello all, I'm quite new to the the silver forum and stacking community in general.
I have always wanted a kilo of silver and I'm reasonably close to treating myself to one but I'm starting to have second thoughts and am now considering investing the equivalent ammount of money into gold. The plan is to keep hold of what ever I buy for twenty plus years.
Any thoughts or advice from more experienced stackers out there would be much appreciated. 

Firstly apologies for the extended downtime. It was much longer than expected as the forum has grown significantly in size recently. 

The work was taking too long, and as we are now in a position to be able to put the forum back online we have gone ahead and put the forum online again. Please note that there is still work going on in the background, and we will need to take the forum off line to finish the work (which we estimate will be sometime Sunday night but which should only last a few hours) 

You may also notice a 500 error issue again, if this happens we will restart the MySQL database. We currently believe that the spot price bar application is overloading the database. When we do the final move of files (likely will be sometime this Sunday night) we will not install the spot price bar application. We will be installing the spot price application on a separate test sever to see if that is indeed the cause of the 500 error issues, and also speaking with the developer of that particular application. 

Apologies in advance for the planned downtime this Sunday 9th May 2021, but the majority of the work should hopefully be behind us.