FourNinesFine

My two pennies worth, I try to stick 15 Oz of silver to 1 sov (just the ratio I like to work with). I came to the forum with no gold but within the last year have balanced it out and I have only sovereigns. I like the history, they are very popular and I am not a fan of 999, silver or gold.

Hi, @FourNinesFine
My advice is to go for sovereigns. Indeed, are more liquid, easy to buy, easy to sell. I will try to give you some "tips" from my experience:
1. If you are buying them from dealer, buy only brand new and put them in capsules. Will sell very quick on forum if are looking as new. Also, keep all your invoices for more confidence for buyers. 
2. If you are buying from private market, avoid marketplace and ebay if your experience level is not very high. Buy with confidence from forum and you will be fine. Avoid bad looking old sovereigns, are difficult to sell them if is not a very scarce date/mint. Also, you can find very good deals of very good quality pre-owned sovereigns on Chards and Atkinson's, especially on bundles.
3. If you are pure stacker, do not get trapped in collecting old sovereigns. There are hundreds of types, kings, young/old/veiled heads, several mints, dies, ect. It is amazing, fun, interesting, but expensive. You will be reluctant to sell because you will broke a date run, and it is possible to not get back the expected money.
4. I will suggest you also to not avoid buying another well known low premium gold coins, as a lot of 10 and 20 francs/lire LMU or another well known world coins if you see them on forum at a low premium. Are as well, very easy to liquidate
What can I say more?
Happy stacking, my friend!🤗
Kindest regards,
Stefan.
 
 
 

Hey Stelios. Welcome to the forum.

Cyprus is one of myy favourite places to visit - but it has been a few years now since I was last there.

I too fell down the same rabbit hole recently.  Enjoy!  😀

My input would be largely the same as @MonkeysUncle. I've just bought some more sovs to add to my stack as it was (on the gold side of things) mostly in 1oz coins and i wanted a bit more fractional. 1oz are pretty liquid if you don't mind selling to a dealer (from what i can tell, you don't really lose much on the buy back premium unlike with much bigger gold bars), but I also wanted a good holding in smaller sovs. That way, if i want to liquidate a bit of my retirement pot when the times comes, i dont need to do it in £1500 chunks, i can release a more modest few hundred pounds. Plus as mentioned, its much easier to find more people privately with that amount of cash they are willing to part with quickly.

I can highly recommend Backyard Bullion's YouTube channel for help with those questions. One of his recent videos goes in to detail on why cost is generally only relevant the shorter amount of time you expect to hold something. 
I don't mind premiums on smaller coins like half or quarter oz where the options for selling on are greater but I do subscribe to keeping overall cost per oz as low mostly just for the hell of it. 

To liquidate a 1oz coin you need to find someone with £1,500 or so at the moment.
To liquidate a Sov or Sovs you need to find a man or men with £360 or so. 
Sovs are easier to shift basically, plus they have history and collectors looking for older ones to add to theirs. The Brit lacks history.
Having said the above I hoarded Queen's Beast 1oz coins thinking premiums will be higher than Brits in future and am contemplating hoarding 1oz Tudor Beasts.
2022 Sov being a different design is something many on here have suggested acquiring and I have a few. They may get some more friends soon...

My stack is for my kids. I started out with no real plan, just bought the odd silver ounce because I liked them. That was about 5 years ago, and only really upped my buying in  the last 2 years or so. Now properly have the bug, for better or worse.
I have a reasonable pension, that should be enough, but you never know how things will turn out, so I suppose the stack is a plan B.
In an ideal world I would like to get to around 700-800 oz (silver, obviously...) and perhaps 15-20 of gold. I find silver more aesthetically pleasing and think it has greater long term potential than gold. (Maybe!!!)
Either way, when it goes to the kids they can do what they like, cash it in or use it to start their own stack. I get the enjoyment of putting it together and owning it for a while, then it will be passed on - it won't have cost the kids a penny so it's a win-win.
I know its not much of a plan, it's more about enjoyment for me and a wee helping hand for the kids when  the time comes. A hobby with benefits!

Could you link Silver Trader please? I'm new around these parts and couldn't find that username in the member directory. I'd be interested in signing up to their newsletter (and seeeing if there were any Red Dragons available)
Many thanks,
FNF.

silvertrader.uk
Run by Martin Whitehouse, he's on this forum, but not actively. If it's the 1st series QB red dragon you're after then place a wanted ad in the trade section. I'm sure there will be plenty around. Good luck.

Welcome @Agaupl from a fellow noob!

The detailing is amazing; the tail is exquisite

That's possibly because TSF does not allow you to say hard-boiled ****!
😎

No good for me either. The only thing I like hard-boiled are 1940s noir detectives!

20oz 
To the stack 🤠🍾🍺
 

Sensational!! 😂 I presume you're quoting their smash hit, "Flake it easy"?

I've got a Seedless Easy Peeler, 
And I know you won't let me down
'Cause I'm already standing on the ground.
😎

Governments dont have the minerals and I dont mean hard assests

Hello,
I wanted to introduce myself as a brand new stacker. This is day 1 for me on TSF.
By way of introduction, I found my way into the world of stacking, not through traditional 'investing' or 'collecting' channels, but through more of the geo-political discourse. I'd started to investigate ways of moving funds away from traditional banking environments (FIAT currency) and was immediately attracted to the proposition of investing in (physical) metals. I hope that doesn't make me seem like a doomsayer. But whilst I'm not expecting the worst, it's fair to say my spider-sense has recently started to tingle.
Investing in precious metals seems to me, to be a sensible way to hedge against some of the potential scenarios at play, whilst maintaining a portfolio that can be handed to my children for their futures.
I only wish my pockets were deeper. As it is, I'm likely to be one of the forum's more modest investors.
I took possession this week of my first 20oz of silver - 13 Britannias and 7 Maples, thanks to the lovely folks at @ChardsCoinandBullionDealer
A small stack. But, from little acorns do mighty oaks grow. I hope that my investment journey continues for many yeears to come and that I enjoy it alongsiide you fine folks and this community.
All the best,
FNF.

Hello,
I wanted to introduce myself as a brand new stacker. This is day 1 for me on TSF.
By way of introduction, I found my way into the world of stacking, not through traditional 'investing' or 'collecting' channels, but through more of the geo-political discourse. I'd started to investigate ways of moving funds away from traditional banking environments (FIAT currency) and was immediately attracted to the proposition of investing in (physical) metals. I hope that doesn't make me seem like a doomsayer. But whilst I'm not expecting the worst, it's fair to say my spider-sense has recently started to tingle.
Investing in precious metals seems to me, to be a sensible way to hedge against some of the potential scenarios at play, whilst maintaining a portfolio that can be handed to my children for their futures.
I only wish my pockets were deeper. As it is, I'm likely to be one of the forum's more modest investors.
I took possession this week of my first 20oz of silver - 13 Britannias and 7 Maples, thanks to the lovely folks at @ChardsCoinandBullionDealer
A small stack. But, from little acorns do mighty oaks grow. I hope that my investment journey continues for many yeears to come and that I enjoy it alongsiide you fine folks and this community.
All the best,
FNF.

Hello,
I wanted to introduce myself as a brand new stacker. This is day 1 for me on TSF.
By way of introduction, I found my way into the world of stacking, not through traditional 'investing' or 'collecting' channels, but through more of the geo-political discourse. I'd started to investigate ways of moving funds away from traditional banking environments (FIAT currency) and was immediately attracted to the proposition of investing in (physical) metals. I hope that doesn't make me seem like a doomsayer. But whilst I'm not expecting the worst, it's fair to say my spider-sense has recently started to tingle.
Investing in precious metals seems to me, to be a sensible way to hedge against some of the potential scenarios at play, whilst maintaining a portfolio that can be handed to my children for their futures.
I only wish my pockets were deeper. As it is, I'm likely to be one of the forum's more modest investors.
I took possession this week of my first 20oz of silver - 13 Britannias and 7 Maples, thanks to the lovely folks at @ChardsCoinandBullionDealer
A small stack. But, from little acorns do mighty oaks grow. I hope that my investment journey continues for many yeears to come and that I enjoy it alongsiide you fine folks and this community.
All the best,
FNF.

Hello,
I wanted to introduce myself as a brand new stacker. This is day 1 for me on TSF.
By way of introduction, I found my way into the world of stacking, not through traditional 'investing' or 'collecting' channels, but through more of the geo-political discourse. I'd started to investigate ways of moving funds away from traditional banking environments (FIAT currency) and was immediately attracted to the proposition of investing in (physical) metals. I hope that doesn't make me seem like a doomsayer. But whilst I'm not expecting the worst, it's fair to say my spider-sense has recently started to tingle.
Investing in precious metals seems to me, to be a sensible way to hedge against some of the potential scenarios at play, whilst maintaining a portfolio that can be handed to my children for their futures.
I only wish my pockets were deeper. As it is, I'm likely to be one of the forum's more modest investors.
I took possession this week of my first 20oz of silver - 13 Britannias and 7 Maples, thanks to the lovely folks at @ChardsCoinandBullionDealer
A small stack. But, from little acorns do mighty oaks grow. I hope that my investment journey continues for many yeears to come and that I enjoy it alongsiide you fine folks and this community.
All the best,
FNF.

Hello,
I wanted to introduce myself as a brand new stacker. This is day 1 for me on TSF.
By way of introduction, I found my way into the world of stacking, not through traditional 'investing' or 'collecting' channels, but through more of the geo-political discourse. I'd started to investigate ways of moving funds away from traditional banking environments (FIAT currency) and was immediately attracted to the proposition of investing in (physical) metals. I hope that doesn't make me seem like a doomsayer. But whilst I'm not expecting the worst, it's fair to say my spider-sense has recently started to tingle.
Investing in precious metals seems to me, to be a sensible way to hedge against some of the potential scenarios at play, whilst maintaining a portfolio that can be handed to my children for their futures.
I only wish my pockets were deeper. As it is, I'm likely to be one of the forum's more modest investors.
I took possession this week of my first 20oz of silver - 13 Britannias and 7 Maples, thanks to the lovely folks at @ChardsCoinandBullionDealer
A small stack. But, from little acorns do mighty oaks grow. I hope that my investment journey continues for many yeears to come and that I enjoy it alongsiide you fine folks and this community.
All the best,
FNF.

Hello,
I wanted to introduce myself as a brand new stacker. This is day 1 for me on TSF.
By way of introduction, I found my way into the world of stacking, not through traditional 'investing' or 'collecting' channels, but through more of the geo-political discourse. I'd started to investigate ways of moving funds away from traditional banking environments (FIAT currency) and was immediately attracted to the proposition of investing in (physical) metals. I hope that doesn't make me seem like a doomsayer. But whilst I'm not expecting the worst, it's fair to say my spider-sense has recently started to tingle.
Investing in precious metals seems to me, to be a sensible way to hedge against some of the potential scenarios at play, whilst maintaining a portfolio that can be handed to my children for their futures.
I only wish my pockets were deeper. As it is, I'm likely to be one of the forum's more modest investors.
I took possession this week of my first 20oz of silver - 13 Britannias and 7 Maples, thanks to the lovely folks at @ChardsCoinandBullionDealer
A small stack. But, from little acorns do mighty oaks grow. I hope that my investment journey continues for many yeears to come and that I enjoy it alongsiide you fine folks and this community.
All the best,
FNF.

Hello,
I wanted to introduce myself as a brand new stacker. This is day 1 for me on TSF.
By way of introduction, I found my way into the world of stacking, not through traditional 'investing' or 'collecting' channels, but through more of the geo-political discourse. I'd started to investigate ways of moving funds away from traditional banking environments (FIAT currency) and was immediately attracted to the proposition of investing in (physical) metals. I hope that doesn't make me seem like a doomsayer. But whilst I'm not expecting the worst, it's fair to say my spider-sense has recently started to tingle.
Investing in precious metals seems to me, to be a sensible way to hedge against some of the potential scenarios at play, whilst maintaining a portfolio that can be handed to my children for their futures.
I only wish my pockets were deeper. As it is, I'm likely to be one of the forum's more modest investors.
I took possession this week of my first 20oz of silver - 13 Britannias and 7 Maples, thanks to the lovely folks at @ChardsCoinandBullionDealer
A small stack. But, from little acorns do mighty oaks grow. I hope that my investment journey continues for many yeears to come and that I enjoy it alongsiide you fine folks and this community.
All the best,
FNF.

Hello,
I wanted to introduce myself as a brand new stacker. This is day 1 for me on TSF.
By way of introduction, I found my way into the world of stacking, not through traditional 'investing' or 'collecting' channels, but through more of the geo-political discourse. I'd started to investigate ways of moving funds away from traditional banking environments (FIAT currency) and was immediately attracted to the proposition of investing in (physical) metals. I hope that doesn't make me seem like a doomsayer. But whilst I'm not expecting the worst, it's fair to say my spider-sense has recently started to tingle.
Investing in precious metals seems to me, to be a sensible way to hedge against some of the potential scenarios at play, whilst maintaining a portfolio that can be handed to my children for their futures.
I only wish my pockets were deeper. As it is, I'm likely to be one of the forum's more modest investors.
I took possession this week of my first 20oz of silver - 13 Britannias and 7 Maples, thanks to the lovely folks at @ChardsCoinandBullionDealer
A small stack. But, from little acorns do mighty oaks grow. I hope that my investment journey continues for many yeears to come and that I enjoy it alongsiide you fine folks and this community.
All the best,
FNF.