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£475 plus postage of your choice/risk.
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£145 plus postage of your choice/risk.
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Here we have the limited mintage Zi:Sin rounds from KOMSCO and one Chiwoo Cheonwang. Beautifully detailed and something different from your average brits, maples, krugs, roos etc. These really are coins for a collector to appreciate them. To be sold as a lot - not looking to split.
£180 plus postage of your choice.
Bank Transfers only / UK Buyers only please
Please find more info on these coin at the following website:
https://www.britannia-uk.com/zi-sin
Coin Specifications:
1oz Silver Bullion | Value 1 Clay | Composition Silver (.999) | Weight 31.1035 g
Coins available are:
Zi:Sin GALLUS 2017 Mintage 33,300
Zi:Sin CANIS 2018 Mintage 40,000
Zi:Sin SCROFA 2019 Mintage 40,000
Zi:Sin RATTUS 2020 Mintage 22,000
Zi:Sin TAURUS 2021 Mintage 20,000
CHIWOO CHEONWANG 2020 Mintage 33,000
Images of Actual Coins:

Received and live the Spitfire coin! Thank you - highly recommended!

1974 sterling silver coin set. 
Lovely looking set with birds on all coins. Coins still in protective sleeve/capsule. Also with blue velvet box/holder.
Roughly £60 of scrap value in these. 
Looking for £65 posted signed for delivery on these, can do Special Delivery if preferred. 

Spitfire Sold Pending Payment 

PM’d regarding the spitefire

Yes

2009 & 2011 MS 69 Brits £60 each inc postage both in excellent condition.Payment by BT or ppff thanks. 
 
 
 

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

5oz Noah Ark silver coins in plastic capsules
4 available
£120 each plus postage
BT PPFF

 

£26 each plus postage, lots available
 

I'm about to do a YT video on the subject, @Solachesis I offer NGC grading and one of only a few amount of people who offer coin conservation.
You first need to understand the reasons why you want a coin grading, if it's just a case of thinking of adding value to a coin you are like to be disappointed unless you have done your own homework.
Why grade a coin?
1, Added value of course this is the leading factor with people wanting a coin graded especially modern proof coins, however if a modern coin fails to get the PF70UC grade it's highly likely it will not add any value at all, in fact it might make it harder to sell than a coin left loose in the box with a COA
2, Saleability   Yes grading coins can help make them more saleable especially if they are collectable and have lower population in the NGC and PCGS reports. Again this is based on you doing your homework......some 1/2 sovereigns are doing remarkably well for example.
3, Storage they are easier to store that having the coins in the boxes and they do present nicely, they are also good as a reference tool, I'm building a George V graded branch mint set and want to get a different grade across the set as I can use this as a visible benchmark for other George V sovereigns in my collection.
4, Sentimental reasons, some people what the coins encapsulated for a gift or might have other reasons, children's birthdays.....done this recently for one gentleman, he had 2 proof sovereigns of his children's birthdays that they had handled over the years I conserved these for him and he got them graded  (just got the results back both got PF70UC) 
In short can you buy coins and make loads of money getting them graded and then selling them at a profit...........YES!   I have done this, but I will not be one of the bozo's making it sound like you can always win and never lose.     Homework, homework, homework  you need you learn for yourself if you want to flip graded coins to make a profit,  if this is only your sole reason for dong this then you also have to accept you might be left holding the baby once the market turns and you can not sell your coins. Like I pointed out above it's not the only reason to grade a coin  and If you have any questions I will be more than honest with you.
 
 
 
 

How do I stop this company blasting me with their silly embossed envelopes advertising what I am about.
I have marked my account with them to send me no post, I have emailed them to not send any more but still they come.
What is the matter with this company, do they have a death wish, this is no way to operate a company.

What about the Dog??😄

Was looking at buying the 1/4 Oz queen's beast horse of Hanover
I know you can still get it from the royal mint but I wouldn't give them a piece of my poo let alone my money 

No its not

Silver is (literally) a flipping pain in the backside to trade as it goes up and down all the time and never stay still. 
The price is controlled heavily, but it can and does break out from time to time - does not seem to last long though. 
I sold all my brits in the squeeze early this year and made a decent return.
It wont make you rich, but pays for holidays etc. Depends how much you have and how high the spot goes & buyer demand. 
I personally like gold for long term now. There is a lot of hype about silver moving to triple digits, but its not guaranteed. 

Personally if silver hits £30 an ounce I will start selling the stuff i bought at £15-16 an ounce. 
If it hits £50 its all going - for conversion to gold (or platinum if that under £700).
Or liquidate to cash, wait or invest elsewhere (assuming we are not in Venezuela territory). 

As I collector I would suggest buying more collectible bullion silver to start with. 
Pay a close eye on spot and premiums (which i believe are high now). 
I dont know a ton about proofs and stuff - but I like the Mexican & Scotsdale coins myself. 
Not exactly collectable but they sell fast and look stunning. I also like Perth mint. 
If you have a lot of non UK coins and decide to liquidate you will have to pay capital gains. 
This is free at the moment if you have UK tender coins up to £12K.
but unless we are in a war zone its highly unlikely the banks will let silver run that far. 

Best place to start is the Queen Beasts set IMO. You have a 2 oz set (bullion) and a 10oz set, both have boxes you can get. 
This is largely part of my retirement fund as i have a few sets now, but I wont hesitate to liquidate if silver spikes. 
Its a great all in one set for someone to buy who is looking at hedging fiat, especially with a box as its also collectable. 

Personally I only buy Brittanias when they are around £20 a coin (the cost from Europe now - excluding import tax). 
Stack gold little and often also - Sovereigns seem to be most liquid - Britannias better value.
I buy a few on the dips, its amazing how quickly they add up. Cost averaging has great compounding power. 

stick to UK legal tender and capital gains exempt stuff (Lunar Series is good apparently), buy second hand to minimise VAT.
Stay away from Ebay - buy on here.

Stay away from commemorative c**p - especially the crowns.
Bought a whole box full of them this year and quickly sold them (at a profit I might add). 
Good luck. 

I had never heard the term "milk spot" until the last year or two.
I think I first became aware of it on TSF, where there seem be be lots of discussions and complaints about milk spots, mainly about British Royal Mint silver coins including some high premium proof coins, and also bullion coins like Britannias.

This composite images shows milk spotting on a 2021 UK silver proof Queens's Beasts Black Bull of Clarence coin, one of 9 coins from a 10 coin Royal Mint set to feature this production defect.
Of course, I have seen white spots on silver coins before, but had never called them milk spots, or heard anyone else call them that, until quite recently as I just mentioned.
I can call to mind seeing a slight grey blue bloom on some silver proof crowns from 1980 and 1981. In the past, we have tried silver dipping a few coins, but with very poor results. I suspect that this bloom is caused by the same or a similar production problem.
A quick search using Google will find many pages discussing the problem, but none which states its cause, although a few of the sites including YouTube videos seem to claim to explain the phenomenon and its cause, but fail to actually do so.
A number of these sites mention that it might be caused by solvents or detergents used to clean the planchets (blanks). Some suggest PVC. Although PVC can and does cause some tarnishing, corrosion, or discoloration, I have never noticed it causing milk spots, so I think we can discount the PVC theory. My own thoughts were that it might be caused by oils or other lubricants, affecting either the blanks or the actual coins during the striking process.
The Royal Canadian Mint is to be commended because, according to its website, it carried out research over about 4 years, and in 2018 introduced something called MintShield, which reduces , slows down, or helps to prevent milk spotting. It proudly states that it now incorporates MintShield into its silver bullion maples, and other silver coins. However...
... Disappointingly, the RCM fails to state clearly what causes the problem, what MintShield is or how exactly it works, stating it is a secret process. While I can understand it protecting its investment in research to develop the process, I feel I should deduct points for choosing to withhold the basic facts, namely what is milk spotting, and what causes it.
As recently as yesterday, I asked our main Perth Mint contact what Perth Mint knew, as I cannot remember seeing it on their silver coins, although I feel sure somebody will have done.
I received the following very prompt reply:
Such spots are caused regularly by some small pollutions at the production process. TPM has made large efforts by cleaning the factory to prevent such spots.
I will check if there is any further “official” statement available about that theme from TPM.
Obviously, this does not explain everything we all want to know, but at least it is more than I have heard from any other mint, apart from the RCM as mentioned above. If I receive any further information, I will post it here.
 
 
 

Allright, here goes. Probably the smallest stack of all, but I'm very happy with it. In my kind of way, and with my budget, this is really something. Although I'm very jealous of some stacks here, I'm proud of my own. I even appreciate my 1 gram of gold( I know, sad right!!). Got 6 more ounces coming up from the group order, hoping for them to arrive this week..
 

Thanks for the replies everyone. Looks like I may well have paid way too much for what it is - but I’ll chalk this up to inexperience on my part and perhaps; not being familiar with the rep of this mint and perhaps getting a little sold on the ‘do goodie’ part that’s the ‘Humanium’ brand! 
Thankfully I only sunk about 25 - 30 into this so it isn’t a huge loss - I’ll live and I’ll learn ha! 

I think it is better if any collector or investor knows about fakes, and has access to information about them.
A really determined counterfeiter would be able to create almost undectable fakes anyway, using modern technology and equipment, and they would almost certainly concentrate on circulation coins. there would be no profit in making counterfeit gold sovereigns as the premiums are so low, and they would be detected if they were substandard (deficient gold content).
I don't know if anyone remembers, but a few years ago, perhaps 5 or 6, a Netherlands based private mint had tooled up to make millions of high quality UK £1 and £2 coins, and €1 and €2 coins, by the million. They were caught possibly before any went into circulation.
A search might find some news articles from the time.

I'd avoid these too tbh, I agree with the other posts above.  In addition I avoid made up commermoratives, like for what would have been Diana's 60th birthday - if you think about it they just make up anything and there are unlimited excuses they can come up with for issuing "limited" coins.  I also see most of these are base metal with no real value, but selling at prices as if they were precious metals.   I see boxes and boxes full of these for sale for 20 to 30 quid on the secondary market, but I bet these were sold for hundreds and thousands when new.  Having said that, if there are designs anyone likes then maybe the best thing to do is pick them up super cheap by the box load on the secondary market and never buy new.  Not an investment - just maybe something that appeals to you
Sustainably sourced & dolphin friendly tuna still contains dolphin meat...  an analogy for fair mined gold perhaps...

I don't think this exists in today's world. 

Not really sure about this one, I like the idea but not in the investment zone. Let's face it most of us would have to buy a few tons of this stuff to offset the gold and silver what we already have. Doesn't mean I wouldn't like a nice set of former AK-47 taps in the bathroom.