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Please don’t get carried away. I can’t see it going higher. I can only see it dropping hard and quick. I think we will see £400 an ounce with the next few month.
Sorry…..did I just say ‘Please don’t get carried away. I can’t see it going higher. I can only see it dropping hard and quick. I think we will see £400 an ounce with the next few month.’
What I meant to say was ‘Please don’t get carried away. I can’t see it going too much higher. I can only see it dropping hard and quick. I think we will see £750 an ounce with the next few month.’
Sorry…..did I just say ‘Please don’t get carried away. I can’t see it going too much higher. I can only see it dropping hard and quick. I think we will see £750 an ounce with the next few month.’
What I mean to say was ‘Get carried away. I can’t see it going anywhere other than to the mooooon. I can only see it continuing to rise hard and quick. I think we will see £23,000.00 an ounce with the next few month.’
or something like that.

STOP IT!
guys
         you've
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Now it's a contest of who can snapshot the snappiest shot!

No amount of PM's will help if you lived here. City of Kyiv in the Ukraine this morning.  When a SHTF happens your PM's will not help you.  What you gonna do walk around with 500oz silver?  The supermarkets are empty and if you are a man between 18-60 you can not leave and you have to fight.  This is the reality of a SHTF moment. 
Pm's are giving some people a very false sense of security. 

Some of you may have seen this video before by Ray Dalio on "How the economic machine works".
If you haven't, I highly recommend that you watch it - it's really insightful on the short and long term running of the economy and gave me an indication as to where we are in the long term cycle... Are we approaching a deleveraging phase and the "lost decade"?
In terms of interest rates, they go up to slow down borrowing and enable debt to be paid down.  They go down to stimulate borrowing. 
However, over time, a limit is reached as to how much interest rates can be changed.
 
 

@Petra Sure!
1) First of all, the dates 1916 (London mint - no mint mark) and 1911-C are quite scarce, so when you see them come up you should be wary and examine if they are fake. Of course it could be a batch of hoarded sovereigns which are genuine, although there is a very low possibility of that happening.
2) You can notice that some of them have a date of 1919 with no mint mark, therefore London mint. That can't be correct, since London sovereigns weren't minted that year.
3) On some of the coins there seems to be an "B.B.P." instead of "B.P.".
4) Details on the coins. Some examples are:
     a) 1st photo, 1st row, 1st coin from the left: The sword and leg of St. George lack detail and seems to be "integrated" into the body of the horse. There should have been clear lines and details on both the aforementioned parts.
     b) 1st photo, 2nd row, 2nd coin from the right: Details are all wrong, although I would say that the leg and hair streamer of St. George seem to stand out.
     c) 1st photo, 2nd row, 3rd coin from the right: Details are absent and also the date "1916" looks like it was vertically "squeezed".
     d) 1st photo, 3rd row, 3rd coin from the right: Again the details are all wrong, of which the belly of St. George and also the details on the dragon stand out. Plus, under the dragon there is a "canyon", which shouldn't be there.
     These are some of the many wrong things that I can tell you on the spot. Using a photo of an original sovereign will help you greatly in comparing and identifying the wrong thing you see.
     Cheers!
 
 

The only coin I will never sell

Probably this.. first coin I ever got graded and me and the misses spent hours trying to get it… funny memories 😌

Yeah, it seems they've all calmed down now that the ice skater is allowed to compete. But if she doesn't win then the tanks will be back.

About a year ago I first started taking an interest in 1oz China silver pandas after someone on the forum listed a short date run of recent years which I snapped up.
Once I'd decided to start collecting a date run I quickly amassed a few more years, and it was about that point when I discovered that some years are particularly hard to find, and also when I discovered that there are different varieties of each coin. But it was too late for that - I was hooked! I posted this thread: 
 
It became something of an obsession, but armed with Peter Anthony's panda book I persevered.
A year on, my collection has reached this stage, and I have only three coins still to find. Some coins have been peculiarly elusive, like the 2007 of which I eventually picked up a bundle of 15 which had been imported from China!
1989, 1990 and 1991
The series of 1oz bullion pandas strictly began in 1989. It is convenient for the panda collector to remind themselves of that, because although there are silver pandas going back to 1982, they are either not 1oz or not bullion, so they don't count!
1989 had only 1 variety, but I have collected two so as to show both sides. After this there are two or three varieties for each year up to 2003. This is because they were minted at three different mints: Shanghai (which are on the top row) and Shenzyang (bottom row). The Shenzhen Guobao mint-coins only began in 1999.

 
1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995
In 1995 for the first time there were 3 varieties. The bottom one, the "micro date" is one of the rarest varieties of panda. Both came from the Shenyang mint

 
1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999
I have still to source a 1998 Large date and the extremely rare 1999 large date with the serif on the 1 (which I believe was the first silver panda minted at Shenzhen Guobao).

 
2000, 2001, and 2002
The gap here is the Shanghai-minted 2000, which in contrast with the frosted-ring Shenzhen Guobao panda had a mirror-finish ring on the date side. This is one of the hardest-to-find and most expensive panda (aside from the silly-money 2003 with small D)

 
2003, 2004 and 2005.
2003 had two versions - one with a mirror/satin texture of bamboo in the background to the right of the panda and one with a more frosted finish.
Although the others from 2002 to 2005 all had the same design, they have come from different mints as seen from the edge of the seals. I am endeavouring to collect one of each so still looking for sealed 2003s. 

 
2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.
These were not issued in seals any more.

 
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013. 

 
2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
For the only time in 2015, the panda did not show the weight, "Ag" and purity on the coin, but was still 1oz of 999 silver. This was a highly controversial change, so in 2016 they put these details back, and replaced it with another controversial move - they went metric and decreased the weight to only 30g of silver!

 
2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
This is as far as I've got so far, but I should be able to add 2022 in the next couple of weeks when the very first ones arrive from China in a very fun new design!

 
Many members of the forum have helped me greatly in assembling this collection. A special mention should go to @DavePanda who has given me loads of invaluable advice, lent me his Peter Anthony book, and sold me many of the coins in the collection.