Arcadian

This is the toll that silver stacking has taken on our Jennifer Aniston

(credit: Reddit WSS)

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

Finally, a proper use for that odd little pocket in my jeans, a precious metal pocket 🙂 

Finally, a proper use for that odd little pocket in my jeans, a precious metal pocket 🙂 

I've always been a collector of stuff like many small kids are, postcards on holidays and key rings from interesting places i've been but after a bad motorcycle accident and a house fire my priorities changed. I became free and loose with wine women n song and this is where precious metals stopped a downward spiral into marriage and children. I saved some old UK 5p pieces the old one bob (very like 5Dm coins of the time) and on  trips to west Germany i bought several porn mags from the vending machines at motorway services. Good times were had drinking in Germany and the mags helped pay for the trips. On a later trip to Berlin after the wall i was walking around a flee market and spotted some old reich marks and some Bismark metals going very cheap so i bought them and quickly sold them on too. Unfortunatly the old coins buy turned into getting any coins gold or silver from home or abroad to turn a profit. A pocket full did make for some very good holidays in europe. The lads holidays away stopped but the coins have remained. 
A few years ago i made the biggest mistake / regret of my collecting life i sold nearly all of my collection and bought some gold. I have since rebought most of it 
Today i'm a collector of mainly silver and more recently gold. I still buy any old / new coin i like but now i keep most of it, I'll trade with a small group of friends into metals to get what i like. 
I do like the Perth Mint products with their three lunar series, kooks and wedge-tailed eagles favorites. Annual typeset collections of these and other coins keep me away from the pub like the old days but i still go to music gigs in europe and bring back some gold bullion hidden in my wallet. I never go anywhere without some empty filps in there too.

Started 4 years ago with gold as a way of saving in an alternative currency (Thanks Mike Maloney for introducing me to this world).
Then the passion grew up and I've started looking at silver a year after. In 2019 I bought almost only the grey metal, which I don't purchase anymore due to the premiums, switching back to gold again.
I'll be honest with you and with myself. As time progressed, I've become a collector as much as a stacker. I try to balance reasonable deals and beauty of the coins (I'm in love with the britannias new design and with the American buffalos).
I think I will be buried with some of my coins. New they are MY PRECIOUS.
I always keep a quarter ounce gold in my pocked wherever I go. I like watching it when I am alone. It reminds me of what it is real.
 
 

The sound test is fascinating.  
 
 

Hi, like some of the others I came here after watching a dozen or so Backyard Bullion videos on YouTube.  I’ve only just started with metals, partly as a way making saving more attractive, and I’ve found it quite addictive.  Call me old-school but I do like coins rather than certificates, but I realise I’ve lots to learn.
Cheers
Arcadian

Sometimes you have to buy, regardless of the current price, just to get into the habit.  I've been meaning to buy for years and just didn't get around to it, so I recently decided to take the plunge just to stop procrastinating.  Hopefully, in a few years time the purchase price of those two bars won't matter that much to you.  Most hobbies have a cost so I accept the ups and downs as part of the ride.

Sometimes you have to buy, regardless of the current price, just to get into the habit.  I've been meaning to buy for years and just didn't get around to it, so I recently decided to take the plunge just to stop procrastinating.  Hopefully, in a few years time the purchase price of those two bars won't matter that much to you.  Most hobbies have a cost so I accept the ups and downs as part of the ride.

Hi, like some of the others I came here after watching a dozen or so Backyard Bullion videos on YouTube.  I’ve only just started with metals, partly as a way making saving more attractive, and I’ve found it quite addictive.  Call me old-school but I do like coins rather than certificates, but I realise I’ve lots to learn.
Cheers
Arcadian

Hi, like some of the others I came here after watching a dozen or so Backyard Bullion videos on YouTube.  I’ve only just started with metals, partly as a way making saving more attractive, and I’ve found it quite addictive.  Call me old-school but I do like coins rather than certificates, but I realise I’ve lots to learn.
Cheers
Arcadian

Hi, like some of the others I came here after watching a dozen or so Backyard Bullion videos on YouTube.  I’ve only just started with metals, partly as a way making saving more attractive, and I’ve found it quite addictive.  Call me old-school but I do like coins rather than certificates, but I realise I’ve lots to learn.
Cheers
Arcadian

Hi, like some of the others I came here after watching a dozen or so Backyard Bullion videos on YouTube.  I’ve only just started with metals, partly as a way making saving more attractive, and I’ve found it quite addictive.  Call me old-school but I do like coins rather than certificates, but I realise I’ve lots to learn.
Cheers
Arcadian

Hi, like some of the others I came here after watching a dozen or so Backyard Bullion videos on YouTube.  I’ve only just started with metals, partly as a way making saving more attractive, and I’ve found it quite addictive.  Call me old-school but I do like coins rather than certificates, but I realise I’ve lots to learn.
Cheers
Arcadian