YorkshireStacker

You're not wrong! Fingers crossed they release fractional freddo's soon so us mere mortals can afford them

Forgot to post my March update like a daft apeth so here's a combined March and April update. Slow and steady progress but god know's what it will buy me come December time, at this rate maybe a 1/10th brit and a freddo 🙄

Another month in and some more pounds safely squirrelled away for December 😀

My first update of 2024 woop woop 🥳 +100 from my monthly standing order +8 from a monthly dividend +2 from cashback +10 from a scratch card win +20 from cashing in bags of 5p and 20p pieces, amazing how quickly they mount up! +53 from trading the darts world championship I've also squirreled away part of my Christmas bonus from work and stuck it in my ISA. My plan being that hopefully in several months time I'll be able to sell these 290 units for a profit, and then add that money to my gold fund 🤞

Turned down a session in town yesterday so the money I would have "wasted" on beer and curry has gone into the precious metals pot. And I had a couple of very small ebay sales this week and a tiny bit of cashback.

Gonna have to put those on now, if I didn't and they ended up coming up, well, the air would be blue for quite some time 🤣

Definitely! Absolutely beautiful....stunning....but enough about me, these bits of silver ain't half bad either 😉

A bingo win, a raffle win and a dominos win! Don't suppose you want to share your lottery numbers for this weekend do you @Paul? I could do with a bit of your luck 😉

A massive thanks to @monkey, received my prize today and wow, the photo looked good but in person it's even better. Could not be happier with that haul, so thank you once again! @Darr3nG congratulations! PM me your details and I'll get your goodies into the post

WHOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO many thanks in advance @monkey PM incoming 😀

I've set up a monthly £100 standing order, but I'm also going to be topping this account up ad hoc, as and when I can. I had a couple of months worth of cashback sitting not doing much so threw that in, and the monthly dividend payment from one of my shares too. Let's go!

Nice one @Paul, this should be a fun thread! I'm also in, but at the moment I'm not sure whether to aim for a gold Brit or the x5 sovs. The sov is my go to coin of choice....but I don't have any 1oz gold so the Brit has a bit of an allure to it.

Count me in chaps! This year's prize is a 2023 30g silver panda in capsule, plus a 2023 1g gold panda in plastic + a couple of small Brucie bonus surprises 🎅

Not as extreme as having a block put on my account, but I did struggle this weekend to set up a transfer to buy something from on here. Set up a new payee with Halifax and got the automated robot lady phone call where they text you a number and then you key in or speak the code to confirm the details. Keyed in the code, it seemingly didn't pick up the key presses, tried again same thing, tried a third time but used my big boy brain and spoke the code this time...apparently the robot lady couldn't understand my sultry tones and told me to hang up and try again. Repeated the whole process again - ala the definition of insanity 🙄 - and got the same result. In the end I jumped on Chase and set up the transfer in a matter of minutes. Definitely worth having account with multiple banks, one of them has got to let me spend my money, right?

I'll take #1 if it's still available please, ta

Wow fantastic, thank you!

I'll take the 1957 if it's still available please 🤞

In the words of Bill Bailey: "only you can answer that". I'd say it depends on why you want to buy, if you're looking for an investment or hedge against inflation etc then probably best to stick to plain ol' bullion. In order to get your money back, or even make a profit you'd be relying on someone liking the coin for it's aesthetic qualities as much as you do/did. It might take several days or weeks to find a buyer willing to pay a price you'd be happy with. On the other hand, if you're buying as a curio, or objet d'art; something that will sit on your desk where you will see it everyday and bring you pleasure then yeah it probably is worth it - after all you can't put a price on happiness! Really depends on how you look at it - for examle is going out for a meal at a fancy restaurant worth it? From a purely sustenance point of view then no, not really. You can buy a kilo of rice or spuds and cook them up at home for pennies and you will be nurished and satiated. But going to a swanky restaurent is more than just paying through the nose for a tiny amount of food on a massive plate, it's about the experience, it's a talking point, a memory, an excuse to spend a couple of hours in pleasant surroundings with friends or family. Are those things worth the price? Absolutely.

I'd like to join the interested list too please, ta

Belated opening and a belated massive thank you to my (not so) secret Santa - @Touvex who definitely went above and beyond

All I will say is, we were never seen in the same room at the same time. Make of that what you will.... That's a topic I save for my other 'special interest' forum

Absolutely crackers. Trying to squeeze the granularity of a 70 point scale into a 10 point scale doesn't sound like a great idea. Surely that would lead to massive differences between coins that are supposedly in the same grade? And having one scale supplement the other seems even dafter. I can only hope they were preparing this email ready for 1st April and got a little excited and clicked the send button too early.

Coin collectors: The numbers all go to seventy. Look, right across the board, seventy, seventy, seventy and... NGCX: Oh, I see. And most grading scales go up to ten? Coin collectors: Exactly. NGCX: Does that mean it's better? Is it any better? Coin collectors: Well, it's sixty better, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be happy at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your collectable. Where can you go from there? Where? NGCX: I don't know. Coin collectors: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do? NGCX: Put it up to seventy. Coin collectors: Seventy. Exactly. Sixty better. NGCX: Why don't you just make ten better and make ten be the top number and make that a little better? Coin collectors: [pause] These go to seventy.

Got my order in with a geezer from Blackpool! Initially joined RM queue at 9am and suprisingly only 4.5k-ish folk in front. Was expecting a much higher number, so either I got somewhat lucky with the rng and/or the Tuesday launch threw people off and/or no one is really that fussed for an extra expense so close to Christmas. Lost my nerve with the RM website though before getting in, heard too many horror stories about the site coming unstuck and that's a hassle I don't need so binned them off and headed to Chards.

Count me in chaps, also with a 1g Valcambi gold bar + a couple of small Brucie bonus surprise stocking fillers 🎅