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Seems fairly steady after the drop I had selfishly hoped it would drop to about £1800 as its pay day week, and then shot back up till next payday of course

Three left, 1873, 1875S & 1880M Will include post if bought together

1873M, 1874S & 1875M sold

I lost a sovereign, assumed at the time I had not recorded one I had sold on my spreadsheet Found it months later when I moved my desk, it had fallen down the back

I was buying at peak, I buy whenever I have the money and something I want comes up for sale and nuts to the spot price

All yours, I will drop you a pm

Nice, I want to reach into the screen and peel of the film. You must have some self control not to have already done it GLWS

1873Mx1 and 1880 sold

There is also a rare in that batch for anyone who wants to check variants

Sure, pm when your ready

For anyone wanting to take advantage of this small dip in spot, x10 Bullion Victoria YH G&D available at £446 each plus post at cost Cheapest dealer stock I can find is HGM at £469 (delivered) with no price breaks Years are, from top left to bottom right 1873, 1873M, 1873M, 1874S, 1875S 1875M, 1876S, 1880M , 1880, 1881S BT or PPF&F. UK mainland or NI only.

Would be looking for spot mate, so £455 right now Any less and I might as well just trade them in.

What sort of quantity of sovereigns are you after? I had considered cashing some out with Taxex this week so I may be able to help. Especially if you are anywhere near the midlands to collect or for me to deliver as Royal Mail have been terrible recently.

Look in the mirror mate, you have two mk1 eyeballs just above your nose @dicker means do your research, learn how to spot fakes just by looking at the coin under a loupe I have recently bought a digital microscope, and while I got it to be able to confirm any variants that pass through my hands it is a great piece of kit and it was not super expensive - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00XNYXQHE?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details The below is the type of detail it captures, on this example I was trying to confirm whether the A's in GRATIA on a young head were partially barred I have a couple of sets of scales but I find these the best - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BHRTJ8QM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I also have these and they are adequate most of the time and are very portable https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08DNPPFPQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1 The second set only seem to be accurate to .1 but I have had them a long time

Is there a reason you have started to worry? There are fake sovereigns out there but they are thin on the ground and dealers will spot the majority that pass through their hands and they will just go in the melting pot A lot of new stackers get the same concern at some point or another, I did myself. These days I do not worry about it at all and I would not buy a sigma as I would rather spend the money on more gold. I do not buy US coins as they are faked quite widely. I also do not buy bars from places like the perth mint as again a lot of fakes. But every sovereign I know of that is a fake is still made of gold, and generally at least 21ct but sometimes up to 23ct gold. If you get a fake, just weight it in. You may lost a few quid but at the moment with stuff selling at spot the loss would be tiny. I weigh my coins on some scales that cost me £25 off Amazon, if you get some just make sure you can calibrate them. I buy older coins mostly so they can be slightly underweight but I know the tolerance and generally know roughly what a coin is going to come out to just based on the wear. I have some precision callipers too but rarely ever use them, I think maybe 3 times in the years I have had them. You can also do a gravity test with a jug of water and some scales for an extra check. Regarding ATS, they are reputable and can be reasonably priced. No dealer is infallible though, so always worth doing your own due diligence

Shields are a hard one to price at the minute I have to agree. For s while when spot was going mad the premiums dropped dramatically on them and you could get them at £10 over spot. I bought a couple of batches at £440/£450ish when spot was at £1850 but they seem to have dried up. Most sales posts on bookface seem to be for generic bullion and people shifting their secondary mint s**** or their battered rubbish. Or people with no sales history trying to sell the three sovereigns they own. Some of the dealers have not posted for ages, though a couple seem to be moving decent volumes or brits and generic sovereigns at or just under spot.

Majority of my stuff is in storage and I will not be going there for a while, and I am not really looking to sell any of my better shields anyway - if anything I am still looking to acquire while premiums on shields are so low

Welcome aboard @evamax, maybe consider a trial silver membership so you can see sales posts as they go up, rather than having to wait 3 days

Happens to everyone James, I am sure its just stress

1914 Nineteen Fourteen, if its a year One thousand nine hundred and four, if its a number, would rhyme then One nine one four, if its part of a telephone number, maybe, at a push

This picture instantly made me think of: Carry on, GLWS