Epictetus

Will take a better look at some point. Rushing around today so took a quick vid....

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That's super cheap price, Prince Andrew paid £12,000,000 million for his escort 

Just read an article by arch ramper, though very knowledgeable, Keith Neumeyer who reckons that silver mines and processors will be bought up by EV manufacturers in order to secure supplies and to improve margins. Apparently, a Tesla car has a kilo of silver in it. Over time, he reckons that the restricted supply will result in a $150 per ounce price.

Gold/Silver ratio is 1 to over 90 now. The banksters are really battling to lower the gold price, and using weak old silver to try and keep the gold price from flying. They are getting desperate now. They are fighting a losing battle though. PM's will win in the end. Strong dollar eh?  Pigs are still flying all over the place. GBP price not varying that much. I still think we will get a new all time high gold price in the UK before the end of March.

https://www.milesfranklin.com
Andy is watching closely BRICKS nation's development and interest in precious metals and report on them. As well as commenting on collapse of dollar. He adds to discussion things like belt and road initiative 

Just googled who miles Franklin is, apparently an Australian feminist writer. 

For the sake of public decency it might be best to discontinue the coins after Charles passes and William ascends the throne. I am not going to ask for a one ounce Willie.

I always though this pair would be numismatically interesting as I'm pretty sure there is no other 2023 coin that bears the exact same reverse but with different monarchs on it.
So to me, the pair will always be more interesting than either individual coin. So much so, that I even bought a 2-coin Lighthouse case and some quadrum capsules in anticipation of buying both.
(so also, imagine my surprise when I later saw this! 🤣 https://www.bleyerbullion.co.uk/shop/silver/silver-britannia-2-coin-set-2023/)
 
 

In my experience, Pre 1947 are sold at spot, not over. That’s the main reason I buy them. 

Thanks for the responses.  Just squaring the circle... I've done some calculations and I'd welcome some input.
Based on some of the coins suggested in SidS response (which assumes none of these would be especially collectible), I believe the following is true based on a nominal spot price of Spot = £19.53:
 
Half Crown: King George V (1910–1919): 92.5% Ag
Weight = 14.14 g      
Weight of Ag content = 13.08 g  or  42.06% ozt
Inherent = £8.21
Purchase price (assuming 5% over spot) = £8.60 +/- 
 
Florin: (1849–1919) 92.5% Ag
Weight = 11.31 g  
Ag:  10.46 g  or  33.63% ozt
Inherent: = £6.57
Purchase price (assuming 5% over spot) = £6.90 +/-
 
Florin: (1920–1946) 50% Ag
Weight = 11.31 g
Ag:  5.65 g   or  18.17% ozt
Inherent: = £3.55
Purchase price (assuming 5% over spot) = £3.73 +/-
 
Do I have my sums correct?
 

Modern British silver coins issued:
1816-1919 (plus a few from 1920) are 92.5% sterling silver.
1920-1946 are 50% silver.
The cheapest (but not very compact) way to buy British pre-decimal silver is to purchase halfcrowns and florins issued from 1920-1946. The earlier dates will be pretty worn, the war years dates of the 1940s can be pretty close to AU times. Being only 50% though they take up a lot of room.
If you want sterlings then George V 1911-1919 half crowns are the way to go. Possibly also Edward VII florins and Victoria Jubilee head crowns and shillings - anything dated 1887 is affordable.

I know dealers have make their money, but come on!
https://atkinsonsbullion.com/silver/silver-coins/2oz-silver-coins/pre-owned-2018-uk-queen’s-beasts-the-unicorn-2oz-silver-coin-vat-free

Lived through 2011 and absolutely no shortage of buyers at all on flea bay, constant outbids.  1oz coins on £40-£50oz buy it now selling no problem at all.
Myself included
Remember when people are looking at silver at £30oz people are thinking it is the next big thing, as it will have gone from £10 to £30 in X amount of time
"JUST LOOK HOW FAR IT HAS GONE UP" they will cry
Just look on here when gold was down £700 oz it was dissolution, moan groan and gripes, "im down" "im not buying its only going lower"
Why were we not backing up the truck then ?
Why are people still buying now at £1400oz ? despite what it has gone up on the past year ? because people are positive the positive trends will always keep going 
Even buying at £40oz of physical silver it was folk saying, get it now because the genies out of the bottle and its only ever going up.
Get it now before it hits £50 and then £75
I bought it to it hook line and stinker  rather naively i'm afraid.   Hopefully im a bit wiser owl now
But saying that, i wish i had just bought gold from Day1 now, from when i started stacking in hindsight
 
 
 

tbh i've always thought silver stacking was very niche, so to me these memes are never getting old
 

Oh! you just mention a topic that I love and I want to keep learning; the "value" of historical coins back then. I recently started my historical coin collection, I'm collecting coins from each king/queen in the united kingdom, I have George V, George VI, Victoria, (I believe I won't make it for Edward VIII) and I don't know how far I will be able to get.
I've been researching about the value of the different coins, how much a worker would get a month in 1890, how much was the price of food, what could you buy with a crown... for example. it is what you said, not just silver, it feeds the imagination as to who earn them and what was bought with it.
I would love to know if there are books about it or where I can get reliable information.

It’s been a couple of years that I have been stacking bullion, I started getting different coin designs but as it was getting too expensive due to those crazy premiums I end up just purchasing britanias, philarmonics or whatever was cheaper in the store, and this was making it quite boring.
However, recently I came across with pre 1947 coins and I’m loving them so much that I decided to start my own collection; at least one of each coin  from each King/Queen of the United Kingdom in a decent condition. 
Soon I realised I would find some restrictions; some of the coins are very expensive and I won’t make the whole collection. 
What are your recommendations when buying this pieces?
1. eBay seems to have more, before buying I check the seller rating and I only buy from the best rated ones to avoid fake ones. I believe there are only fake ones in between the most expensive ones, so far I don’t think nobody is going to fake a George VI half crown. 
 
2. I’m not planing to sell them, but what do you think about this kind of investment? Spending £200 on a “George V wreath crown” seems a bit too much, and in case I wanted to sell it I don’t know how liquid it would be because I am not a shop or a dealer. Not sure how many people would buy this kind of expensive coins from a particular. 

Also, I love the history behind the coins themselves; how long a worker had to work to get them, what was the purchase power of them, the price of the food… Do you know where I can read about it? Any reliable book or website? 
 
To end up the thread I show you some of my coins from the ongoing collection. From Queen Victoria I’ll get one of each head. And soon I’ll start with Edward VII.

 
Thank You

@Shuaib121 don't want to bum you out but you are a good few years late to the silver stacking party from a UK perspective. Prior to leaving the EU we lived in sun lit uplands, free to buy VAT free silver from the rest of the EU. That door being closed is one of the 'benefits' of us leaving the EU and means that stacking silver is no longer really financially sensible (IMO). 
You are best off focusing your efforts on buying gold as you can buy it much closer to gold's spot price here in the UK than you will ever be able to do with silver. You can also buy gold from the EU without any import tax due (unlike with silver).
The example of buying silver privately on the forum at as low as around £24 is (at today's silver spot price) a mark up of around 45%!!!!!! Don't bother buddy, go with gold.
(This is not financial advise, just an opinion of a miserable Remainer)

It’s been a couple of years that I have been stacking bullion, I started getting different coin designs but as it was getting too expensive due to those crazy premiums I end up just purchasing britanias, philarmonics or whatever was cheaper in the store, and this was making it quite boring.
However, recently I came across with pre 1947 coins and I’m loving them so much that I decided to start my own collection; at least one of each coin  from each King/Queen of the United Kingdom in a decent condition. 
Soon I realised I would find some restrictions; some of the coins are very expensive and I won’t make the whole collection. 
What are your recommendations when buying this pieces?
1. eBay seems to have more, before buying I check the seller rating and I only buy from the best rated ones to avoid fake ones. I believe there are only fake ones in between the most expensive ones, so far I don’t think nobody is going to fake a George VI half crown. 
 
2. I’m not planing to sell them, but what do you think about this kind of investment? Spending £200 on a “George V wreath crown” seems a bit too much, and in case I wanted to sell it I don’t know how liquid it would be because I am not a shop or a dealer. Not sure how many people would buy this kind of expensive coins from a particular. 

Also, I love the history behind the coins themselves; how long a worker had to work to get them, what was the purchase power of them, the price of the food… Do you know where I can read about it? Any reliable book or website? 
 
To end up the thread I show you some of my coins from the ongoing collection. From Queen Victoria I’ll get one of each head. And soon I’ll start with Edward VII.

 
Thank You

Oh! you just mention a topic that I love and I want to keep learning; the "value" of historical coins back then. I recently started my historical coin collection, I'm collecting coins from each king/queen in the united kingdom, I have George V, George VI, Victoria, (I believe I won't make it for Edward VIII) and I don't know how far I will be able to get.
I've been researching about the value of the different coins, how much a worker would get a month in 1890, how much was the price of food, what could you buy with a crown... for example. it is what you said, not just silver, it feeds the imagination as to who earn them and what was bought with it.
I would love to know if there are books about it or where I can get reliable information.

While most of the imitation coins on AliExpress do have "copy" on the images, they do not have it  stamped on the actual items.
Most of them can be detected using a magnet, as most of them contain iron.
We bought some imitaion coins via AliExpress. Most arrived OK, but one package (the biggest one) arrived empty, probably due to very poor packaging. The seller rather dishonourably refused to replace them, and AliExpress' feedback and "safety" guarantees are worse than useless, being dishonest and fraudulent propaganda. Apparently, this is normal business practice in China.
😎

The coins on A/E do not have 'copy' stamped on them. However, most of them are obvious counterfeits once in hand  (for some reason the Chinese can't get European eyes right) 🥴

Oh! you just mention a topic that I love and I want to keep learning; the "value" of historical coins back then. I recently started my historical coin collection, I'm collecting coins from each king/queen in the united kingdom, I have George V, George VI, Victoria, (I believe I won't make it for Edward VIII) and I don't know how far I will be able to get.
I've been researching about the value of the different coins, how much a worker would get a month in 1890, how much was the price of food, what could you buy with a crown... for example. it is what you said, not just silver, it feeds the imagination as to who earn them and what was bought with it.
I would love to know if there are books about it or where I can get reliable information.