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eblend got a reaction from ChrisSilver in Speechless
Speaking purely as a new member here, very much a newbie and still green when it comes to coins, I'm afraid your post, as it was written, did come across, not as "just asking a question" but as rude and whinging. It seems the me that the forum is friendly and welcoming. I haven't, so far, detected a hierarchy, or at least not beyond that which you always get on all forums simply because some member genuinely are experts. I have myself, in my short time here so far, posted a couple of questions, which were interesting to me, to which I didn't receive an answer. I chalk it up to being so much of a newbie that my question itself is probably a stupid one. But I'm learning! Respectfully. Eblend.
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eblend got a reaction from Gypsy in UK new signup - collector
Hi Everyone
I'm a 64 year old Chartered Accountant with an interest specifically in sovereigns, although I did get tempted by the recent 'Phil coin' presented by the Mint. I was amazed - they emailed me at 9:00 on Saturday 26th June. I don't normally buy commemorative coins, but that one appealed. I bought it straight away looked again at the Royal Mint site, at 9:50 am on the same day ... and they'd all gone! (Well, all apart from a bolted together 'set' of one 1921 bullion coin and one 2021 bullion coin, and the 1Kg gold coins at £67,500 each!)
Anyway, enough wittering. I have most monarchs, but not George VI. One day ...
All the best
eblend
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eblend got a reaction from ChrisSilver in UK new signup - collector
Hi Everyone
I'm a 64 year old Chartered Accountant with an interest specifically in sovereigns, although I did get tempted by the recent 'Phil coin' presented by the Mint. I was amazed - they emailed me at 9:00 on Saturday 26th June. I don't normally buy commemorative coins, but that one appealed. I bought it straight away looked again at the Royal Mint site, at 9:50 am on the same day ... and they'd all gone! (Well, all apart from a bolted together 'set' of one 1921 bullion coin and one 2021 bullion coin, and the 1Kg gold coins at £67,500 each!)
Anyway, enough wittering. I have most monarchs, but not George VI. One day ...
All the best
eblend
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eblend got a reaction from TheShinyStuff in Speechless
Speaking purely as a new member here, very much a newbie and still green when it comes to coins, I'm afraid your post, as it was written, did come across, not as "just asking a question" but as rude and whinging. It seems the me that the forum is friendly and welcoming. I haven't, so far, detected a hierarchy, or at least not beyond that which you always get on all forums simply because some member genuinely are experts. I have myself, in my short time here so far, posted a couple of questions, which were interesting to me, to which I didn't receive an answer. I chalk it up to being so much of a newbie that my question itself is probably a stupid one. But I'm learning! Respectfully. Eblend.
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eblend got a reaction from Bigmarc in Speechless
Speaking purely as a new member here, very much a newbie and still green when it comes to coins, I'm afraid your post, as it was written, did come across, not as "just asking a question" but as rude and whinging. It seems the me that the forum is friendly and welcoming. I haven't, so far, detected a hierarchy, or at least not beyond that which you always get on all forums simply because some member genuinely are experts. I have myself, in my short time here so far, posted a couple of questions, which were interesting to me, to which I didn't receive an answer. I chalk it up to being so much of a newbie that my question itself is probably a stupid one. But I'm learning! Respectfully. Eblend.
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eblend got a reaction from zxtm99 in Speechless
Speaking purely as a new member here, very much a newbie and still green when it comes to coins, I'm afraid your post, as it was written, did come across, not as "just asking a question" but as rude and whinging. It seems the me that the forum is friendly and welcoming. I haven't, so far, detected a hierarchy, or at least not beyond that which you always get on all forums simply because some member genuinely are experts. I have myself, in my short time here so far, posted a couple of questions, which were interesting to me, to which I didn't receive an answer. I chalk it up to being so much of a newbie that my question itself is probably a stupid one. But I'm learning! Respectfully. Eblend.
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eblend got a reaction from CollectorNo1 in Speechless
Speaking purely as a new member here, very much a newbie and still green when it comes to coins, I'm afraid your post, as it was written, did come across, not as "just asking a question" but as rude and whinging. It seems the me that the forum is friendly and welcoming. I haven't, so far, detected a hierarchy, or at least not beyond that which you always get on all forums simply because some member genuinely are experts. I have myself, in my short time here so far, posted a couple of questions, which were interesting to me, to which I didn't receive an answer. I chalk it up to being so much of a newbie that my question itself is probably a stupid one. But I'm learning! Respectfully. Eblend.
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eblend got a reaction from Gypsy in Speechless
The seller lists the "precious metal content" as 3.99gms so I suppose it's supposed to be a half sovereign.
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eblend got a reaction from pricha in Speechless
The seller lists the "precious metal content" as 3.99gms so I suppose it's supposed to be a half sovereign.
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eblend got a reaction from Tortoise in Tally - What do you think?
The article does state that they are protected by the £85k as other bank accounts. I kind of agree with the rest of what you say, except that it still does seem interesting ... If I were a stacker (which I'm not) I might well be interested in this, at least for part of my funds.
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eblend got a reaction from Tortoise in Tally - What do you think?
Oh, I dunno. It sounds interesting to me. The charges are fairly minimal. I like the idea that one could use it just like a normal bank account, but all the time have whatever is in there linked to the gold price. I definitely wouldn't do it for all my banking, or even the majority, but I might consider it for a part of it.
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eblend got a reaction from Bigmarc in Tally - What do you think?
The article does state that they are protected by the £85k as other bank accounts. I kind of agree with the rest of what you say, except that it still does seem interesting ... If I were a stacker (which I'm not) I might well be interested in this, at least for part of my funds.
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eblend got a reaction from Binny in 1917 sovereigns
Slightly off topic ...
I have, of course, wanted a 1917 London Mint sovereign for a long time. It would complete my set of 1817, 1857, ... , 1957, 2017 (I know, not 50 years, but there are other reasons 😉). Someone standing in for my account manager at the Royal Mint - a young lad, I think - phoned me up trying to sell me various coins they had, including some guineas that I'm not particularly interested in. He also said that he had some ("some", note) 1917 London Mint sovereigns for £650. I said, "Are you sure?" He must have heard something in my voice, because he said he'd check with his manager. Anyway, it turned out that the coins they were selling for that price were from various mints around the world. They did have a London Mint coin, in reasonable condition ... for £10,500 ... which I thought was more like it ...
Ah ... one day ... sigh ...
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eblend reacted to richatthecroft in 1917 sovereigns
These three 1917’s are Perth Branch Mint Sovereigns which was a 4 million mintage and therefore, not rare but are rated as ‘scarce’ by Marsh but they aren’t a rarity. If you had received x3 London 1917’s I would be concerned!
I would say that Baird test all they receive so they are likely all ok.
Hard to tell from the photos, but the first might have been polished?
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eblend got a reaction from GoldDiggerDave in Sovereign Errors, Overdates and Varieties
You guys have made me look at my 1857 coin. The 5 looks out of alignment on mine, at least to my eyes but maybe you can tell me better. 😃
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eblend got a reaction from Roy in Sovereign Errors, Overdates and Varieties
You guys have made me look at my 1857 coin. The 5 looks out of alignment on mine, at least to my eyes but maybe you can tell me better. 😃
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eblend reacted to greektony in Gold stackers!
I'm basically only on the gold train now as Brexit (thanks leavers) really doesn't make Silver an appealing investment IMO anymore. Helps that the current spot price of silver is considerably over my average buy in price as well.
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eblend reacted to Roy in Sovereigns Vs pounds
You missed this one 😊
https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/ranges/historic-coins/historic-sovereigns/1925-sovereign-george-v/
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eblend got a reaction from Spark268 in Sovereigns Vs pounds
True. But I wasn't going by any average of annual inflation. I was taking it from purchasing power statistics, which measure (or purport to measure, at any rate) the real inflationary effect on the currency over specific time periods. I suppose it is possible that the monument's own site used some sort of assumption of annual inflation. In my opinion, a reasonableness check on the eventual figure should have alerted them to the sense that they had miscalculated somewhere.
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eblend reacted to Spark268 in Sovereigns Vs pounds
thanks for pointing this out ! I took the 700k figure from https://sites.scran.ac.uk/scottmon/pages/the_monument.htm , i think its a government body that's responsible for Scotland's heritage.