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Three coin set - 1/4, 1/10, 1/20 https://www.royalmint.com/britannia/commemorative/2024-britannia/2024-britannia-three-coin-gold-proof-set/ Works out to £5675 a TrOz @BackyardBullion

I go a couple or three times a year, 50ish stalls I would say Not been to the London one for years but it used to be a lot bigger than the Birmingham one. I tend to get there early, go to the couple of sellers I know first to see what they have, then have a quick scan round the other stalls and I'm in MacDonald's having my breakfast by 10.30. I likely only bother as its only 20 minutes away for me @1stsovereign usually gets most of my cash, he goes to most of them and usually has a few nice shields up for grabs.

96 was the last Maklouf double, always though that odd

There were 472 bullion minted, that had the fifth QEII portrait (Jody Clark) There were 3661 (1995 singles and 1666 in sets) of the proof, that was the one off (on sovereigns, it is on some other coins) James Butler portrait The 472 will have all been bought, and sold, and bought, and sold. I have seen coins on here I have sold come back up for sale, sell to someone who then also later put them up for sale and I have bought them back. More than once

If you have an interest in a particular monarch or period it is often worth looking for auction catalogues for some of the signature auctions, or even just to pick up knowledge in general This is a link to Baldwins back catalogues to start you off https://www.baldwin.co.uk/auction-archive/ I would suggest starting with Auction 73, 76 & 79 which are the Bentley collection, few auction catalogues provide as much free information as this one, I liked it that much I actually bought all three parts of the catalogue in physical form. The best ones to download for a read are the named ones but I will just pick one at random sometimes, like a lucky dip. Can be hit and miss as they are not all coin auctions

Winds my Mrs up to buggery when I call crumpets pikelets She is from Birmingham though so cant expect her to be too cultured

I do it slightly differently, my current stack cost spot+10%, but given my stack is 50% shields and 10% graded I consider that to be OK, If I took profit from coins I have sold into consideration, I am way below spot on my current stack.

Don't get me wrong, I am torn when I look at the price going silly, just makes me nervous about buying if something I really want comes up I will sit on my hands for a couple of weeks and wait to see where the expected dip takes us when it happens I think, or at least wait till it stabilises

Not sure why anyone wants these prices, fine if you are looking to exit gold but surely a slow and steady rise should be what the majority of this forum wants Look what we face paying

Nuff said

Placeholder for a pm sale with @Go65 1871 Shield Sovereign

My last purchase before the big surge in spot arrived today Bought on the forum from @sterlingstacker, cheers

Did he charge you to deliver it from the kitchen?

Will have a poke around this morning see what I can find, might see if I can find that chart BYB did I am sure I remember him doing a comparison recently

I notice with the price where it is Atkinsons seem to have pegged their buy price on a sovereign to be the same for any type. Previously, as recently as last week, they paid a premium on special reverse and young heads but today everything is £392.40 (which does not seem to change as spot varies). They are usually my dealer of choice to cash out below average sovereigns (yes I know that some places can offer more but I have been dealing with Atkinsons for a long time and they are down the road) The premium they charge has not changed of course

How depressing Cant help but wonder if this price sticks, where will premiums be come May

1851 Shield Sovereign 1884M George & Dragon Sovereign PM deal, post for feedback

https://www.coincompare.co.uk/dealers Dont know if it is any good, just a duckduckgo hit

My latest purchases from @StBeesSilver arrived today For anyone interested he will be releasing new stock most days this month https://www.stbeessilver.com/shop I really cannot recommend highly enough, have a few pieces now and do not have a single complaint about any of them

You have a gold tin of beans, I mean that's just excessive dude, come on Is the tin gold, or the beans? Or both?

Do we think its pausing now? Seems to have or is it just having a breather

I am a hard-core young head sovereign stacker and I still own two of these and very happy that I do, nice price James GLWS

Browsing Britannia Coins website this morning and it appears they have some stuff that is on a fixed price and not tracking spot For example shields are the same price today as they were last Friday https://britanniacoincompany.com/buy-coins/gold-coins/full-sovereign-victoria-young-head-shield-back/ Given they were selling on here at £425/430 when spot was at £1600 this seems a decent price right now

Until yesterday Gold was around the same in March of this and April of last year, so not sure this really indicates anything other that you co-incidentally bought tubes on separate years at a similar spot price

Removing from sale due to rise in spot