Orpster

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

21 minutes ago, Chippy361 said:

Damn, just saw your reply - sorry

5 minutes ago, Sovhead said:

Got another if you’re interested a ‘58 for £450 delivered.

Take this to pm please guys, this is my sales post and you are both breaking forum rules

3 minutes ago, LGLegacyLoot said:

Hi- I’ll take the 1881S pls

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

4 minutes ago, Sovhead said:

Thanks mate 👍🏻

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

Just now, Sovhead said:

1876s please if I can sort payment tomorrow K 👍🏻

Sure, pm when your ready

32 minutes ago, BipolarStacker said:

Price of sovereigns Orpster ?

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.

9 hours ago, Bigcheesy123 said:

I’ll look up the mk1 eyeball

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

11 minutes ago, AaaGee said:

Whats your budget?

Not sure how its playing out with higher spot and lower premiums.

4 minutes ago, Sovhead said:

Depends on year, mintage and condition mate.

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.

15 minutes ago, James32 said:

@modofantasma @Orpster @pricha @JamesH

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

Just now, James32 said:

You made it dip

Happens to everyone James, I am sure its just stress

1 hour ago, katyc said:

I genuinely read it one nine one four 😬

Bloody Irish read it like a they're reading what year it is.... 

Is this our first marital arguement?

£1913 btw 😁

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

15 minutes ago, modofantasma said:

A genuine 1917 isn't but I presume @Orpster means a counterfeit would be 

I do indeed, and if anyone fancies a read you can view the HMRC Guidelines on coinage and banknotes here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7a34deed915d1fb3cd633a/guidance_coinage_banknotes.pdf

Under 'The Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981', which specifically mentions sovereigns as a 'protected coin' to be included with circulating currency under the act.  Its kind of grey if it is illegal to own them, or even sell them unless you believe the buyer may try and pass them as genuine, but better to err on the side of caution I suppose.  I suspect selling them as fakes, or replica's, may be, in a very technical sense, be legal and personally I think they are a part of the history of sovereigns as much as variants and mint errors are.

I think you are right mate, one glance and the date looks wrong, did not even bother looking at anything else after that

I would not buy it in your shoes even if it is 'worth its weight in gold'.  They are illegal to buy, sell and own.

I would never buy a 0.5g coin, I do not see a point in them,

I would buy 1g bullion as there is a definite market for it on the flip side, in bar as preference, and would pay up to 15% as a premium as that would be the sort of premium I would see when I sold.  There are people who would pay more if a piece has a collectors appeal or are rare or vintage but for 1g gold the bars seem to do far better than any proof coin which as James has said will bomb 99.9999999% of the time if they are not from a national mint,

I avoid anything of that size only because of the space carded 1g bars take up in a safety deposit box.  But were I holding at home and space was not a challenge I think its not a bad way to stack as fractional is likely the future