Goldfever20

and thanks to @HB1 for this one🤔👍

Over the moon to get my hands on the Maundy Money gold set. Stunning coins

Think that's the 5 coin set now finished, just needed the double, but all three were a bargain.

Nice one, it’s a lovely set completed. @Clockpuncher is top class fella with great deals as usual 👍🏽

Big thanks to @Clockpuncher

Had a few half sovereigns out on the desk a while back. I don't think I ha left them for a second. Then discovered 1 had gone missing. searched every where. I was about to start moving bookcases and my desk when the other half came into the office. Here she said is this yours. The little one had only lifted the bloody thing and was playing shop with it in her bedroom. Think she was only 4 then. She's like a bloody magpie, anything shiny, Whooosh. 

Don't worry, it's worth £3 less then yesterday. 
Will be worth 50p, like your wife thinks, by the end of this week. 😂

Can't delete a thread unfortunately. 
If it sticks to a magnet, your fooked

Its over folks. Time to swap all that worthless metal back into regulated fiat where banks will look after your money and keep you safe from conspiracy theorists telling you to gamble with gimmicks outside the official monetary system. If gold was so good, the BBC and government would be recommending it through their officially regulated media channels. The don't do so because they know better than we do about economics. We ran away from our parents, now it's time to run back and never leave their bosom again.

It's win win really, cheaper to buy more if it goes down, worth more if it goes up...

Nice. Mine was 4 of 6 and was in equally decent condition. Nice unreleased coin for the collection

I haven't seen this coin for sale on the Buy/Buy section!🤔
Underground market, huh?
Reported!😁

Let's just say I'm very glad it's in a slab, or I'd lose it when the door opened.

How many in a oz?

2017 1/50th ounce proof Krugerrand - PF70 UCAM
Thanks to @ZRPMs.  Purchased to both break my personal record for the smallest coin in my collection, and as a photography challenge.
I've used the microscope to take these pics, since as you can see, the coin is less than 10mm diameter.  I will try with the macro SLR rig some time this week, to see if I can a more arty picture.
Remarkable a coin this size can be created at all, let alone it achieve the highest grade.


 

Partys over the shiny is basically worthless now

Some time ago, a few years before he passed away during the first covid wave at 96 years old (he was playing golf six months before!) I received a collection of coins from my grandad. He didn't tell me much about them at all other than that he enjoyed collecting and ordering them. As well as these there are lots, and lots of others I may have questions about but these are the boxed ones, some of which contain gold coins so if it's okay I'll post them here and ask later on the silver forum about the other peculiar individual silver ones he had (as well as loads of the old silver half crowns, sixpences and all sorts of other stuff). 

Any comments, advice etc on any of them are welcomed, even if it turns out some are copies, not collectable, junk etc. I won't take offence. I have just started going through them and find them fascinating. Looking to do a bit of collecting and stacking after reading up on it all and am looking forward to the journey!

There are a lot so I have created a shared an imgur photos album and have linked the main overhead shots of these selected coins/sets here as an overview. Can take more pics of reverses etc if it helps!  

Here is a link to the shared album with some shots of each set. https://imgur.com/a/drDpW5u


Thanks!

“The Golden Goose and the Premiums”
Once upon a time, in the mystical land of Bullionburg, there lived a peculiar goose named Aurelia. Unlike ordinary geese, Aurelia had shimmering, golden feathers that glinted in the sunlight. Her clucks sounded like tiny coins dropping into a treasure chest. But what truly set her apart was her obsession with gold premiums.
You see, Aurelia wasn’t content with just laying regular eggs. She wanted her eggs to be worth their weight in gold—literally. So, every morning, she’d waddle over to the local goldsmith, Mr. Glitterbeard, and demand, “I want my eggs insured against inflation, Mr. Glitterbeard!”
Mr. Glitterbeard, a stout man with a monocle and a penchant for puns, would scratch his head. “Aurelia,” he’d say, “you’re a goose. Geese lay eggs. They don’t come with insurance policies.”
“But what about premiums?” Aurelia insisted. “I’ve heard they’re all the rage in the financial markets!”
Mr. Glitterbeard sighed. “Premiums, my dear Aurelia, are for insuring valuable things—like ships, houses, and pirate treasure. Not eggs.”
Undeterred, Aurelia decided to take matters into her own wings. She enrolled in an online course titled “Advanced Egg Economics” and learned about supply and demand curves, hedging strategies, and the intricacies of bullion-backed omelets. Armed with newfound knowledge, she hatched a plan.
One day, she laid a particularly shiny egg—the kind that made Mr. Glitterbeard’s monocle pop out. “Behold!” she declared. “The Golden Egg Premium Edition!”
Mr. Glitterbeard inspected the egg. “Aurelia,” he said, “this egg is just painted gold. And it smells suspiciously like spray paint.”
“But it’s premium!” Aurelia protested. “I even added a little certificate of authenticity.”
Mr. Glitterbeard squinted at the certificate. “It says, ‘This egg is 24-karat hilarious.’ What does that even mean?”
Aurelia flapped her wings indignantly. “It means it’s worth its weight in laughter! And laughter is the best currency, Mr. Glitterbeard.”
Word spread throughout Bullionburg about Aurelia’s premium eggs. Soon, investors, speculators, and even a few confused chickens lined up outside her coop. They wanted a piece of the golden action.
Aurelia’s egg market boomed. She introduced limited-edition eggs with holographic designs, embossed with phrases like “In Yolk We Trust” and “Eggstraordinary Returns.” People traded them like stocks, and the price of her eggs skyrocketed.
But then came the Great Omelet Crash of '24. The bubble burst, and Aurelia’s eggs lost their shine. Investors scrambled to sell, and the once-premium eggs were now worth less than a regular breakfast.
Aurelia sat amidst the cracked shells, pondering her folly. “Maybe I should’ve stuck to regular eggs,” she mused. “At least they don’t require quarterly reports.”
And so, the legend of Aurelia, the goose who tried to outwit the gold market, became a cautionary tale in Bullionburg. But every now and then, you can still hear her clucking, “Remember, kids, diversify your nest eggs!”
And that, my friends, is how gold premiums and poultry collided in a feathered fiasco.
Disclaimer: No actual geese were harmed in the making of this story. Premiums were purely fictional, and any resemblance to real financial advice is purely coincidental.

Hi, coin jumped out of capsule and on to tiled floor 😁 
 posted RMSD ( either cheap stacking or melting pot )

dam floor haha

2022 bullion jubilee sovereign great condition in capsule.
£458 + post
BT UK only