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"Maize silage : a study of the nutritive value of ensiled Zea mays L. for growth in young cattle :a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Agricultural Science in Animal Science at Massey University" That one? https://mro-ns.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/4873 He got his PhD in 1980. Type: Thesis Title: Intestinal protein turnover : a study of the nitrogenous transactions of the small intestinal mucosa in sheep / by Alexander Lockwood Smith Author: Smith, Alexander Lockwood Issue Date: 1979 School/Discipline: Dept. of Agronomy Dissertation Note: Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Agronomy, 1980

"Intestinal protein turnover : a study of the nitrogenous transactions of the small intestinal mucosa in sheep" / by Alexander Lockwood Smith Don't say I never did anything nice for you!

Consider me thick but I don't know what you are going on about. I'm not really any good at haggling or negotiating & I don't think my spend is high enough to get special treatment in this arena unless, they have a secret stash of antiques in desperate need of restoration. Back to work for me now, have a good night 🙂

LOL. 12 year olds aren't allowed accounts there! Not a one, but I only spent about £50 there getting a QB silver completer coin because I thought it was drop dead gorgeous.

I've already bought from BBP, so I'm signed up there already I'm afraid, but thanks for the suggestion!

So, I've been collecting for almost a year now & other than one 5g bar, I have collected 1/10 oz gold coins (because they cost about the same as the LEGO sets I used to buy before I had to admit I'd reach SABLE.) My budget is nowhere near as big as I'd guess a lot of others on here, so 1oz coins are not really where I want to put my money anytime soon, but I'm thinking of 'moving up' a coin to either full Sovereigns or 1/4 oz gold coins. Which would you think was better in terms of holding their worth over time (10-20 years & on)? I'm sort of inclined towards the 1/4 oz as I'm not a fan of the colour of Sovereigns & they'll mess with my working out troy ozs. I'll have managed just over 1oz of gold by this years end & I'm aiming for 2oz next year, so I'd only need 8 coins to get there if 1/4oz or 9 coins if sovereigns. Sovereigns seem to be very popular though, but as my budget means I can't pick up the prettier older ones if they have higher prices than a new one does, there seems to be more variety in 1/4oz coins. I'm looking at British coins so they would be CGT exempt due to being an incurable optimist about the size of stash I'll one day have. I've been using my Digi gold account at Royal Mint to save up (stops me giving in & buying more LEGO I can't even store, so it works for me), so I have enough in there to get the 1/4 oz Tudor Beast Lion, or a Sovereign if they ever stay in stock for longer than ten seconds. I do know that really I would be better saving & just getting 2 x 1oz gold coins, but that would require more willpower than I possess & having 'pretty' coins is partly an emotion based decision for me. Does anyone have any suggestions on which they think might be the better buy, Sovereigns or 1/4 oz gold coins? I'm talking about the bullion versions, not the fancy pants other versions.

LOL @LawrenceChard I need to know so much more, but this forum isn't big enough, nobody has time or mental energy to tell me everything & I have to do some work so I can buy more coins! I'd like to know what was minted in the Devon at the Lydford Mint & if a Lydford penny is within my price range for instance. Without a sealed plastic case of course. Thank you for sending me my Mayflower - arrived today looking good in it's (hopefully) original box & made me happy 🙂

Thanks @Darr3nG, I have no plan to sell them unless I have no choice sometime in the future. Do you know why they never seem to be for sale in the packs except at the Mint? I understand with the coins, where people may have bought by the tube, but things like the 1oz 3 graces bar are all over the place not in the packet. I missed the Una & the Lion one which I would have liked to get, but only see it for sale elsewhere in a clear little plastic box if at all.

I'm sorry if this is a dumb newbie question, but e.g. I bought a 5g gold bar (the only purchase I regret, should have got a small gold coin instead) & a 1oz silver 3 graces bar from the Royal Mint. Both came in a card & they didn't seem to have any other way for me to buy them without being in the cards, so I never took them out. When I see these items for sale anywhere else, they are never pictured in those cards. On the Mint website, they also have things like a Sovereign sold sealed on a card, but nobody seems to ever advertise those second hand sealed up like that. Why is that? Is there some disadvantage to having them sealed in their original Mint packaging other than the extra space they take up?

Honestly, I can't be bothered with any of those. If it's unlimited until Dec I've got better things to spend my money on right now so who cares today? But when it comes down to it, they are just flat out ugly looking coins & I don't want a super large version of those pictures when the world if full of much prettier looking coins for less money. In theory maybe one day I'll sell my little collection, but in practice I only buy the ones that are beautiful to me for now. Ps I'm still around 8,279 in the queue on Edge, while I've been into the site & gone again on Chrome.

I'm 14264 on Chrome & 32,357 on Edge.

seriously? Who buys NFTs instead of real coins?

If it doesn't hurry up I'm going to break down & head off to order Single Malt Scotch truffles instead. They are on clearance at Fortnums right now, so they are only about £8 & at least I already know I like them at that price. Above was meant to be on a whole different forum. Meant to say... My budget is pretty spent right now so I'm prob only interested in something 1oz or 2oz silver. Won't be going for gold this time round.

So, the queue it thing turned up but just goes to the FAQ page, is that the queue?

Oooooooooh. If your camera happens to trip & fall into taking any photos of them to show angles/edges etc... hope you post them in the forum. Don't think they'll be in my budget til after Christmas best case & more likely Easter. The coins in my wallet are mostly older than any of the ones I have purchased so far. Only started collecting last Dec. I do have that Tudor Beast 2oz bullion coin upstairs though & I WILL count the serrations, but I think it's a pretty poor show on behalf of the Royal Mint not to put all those sort of specs on the product pages. It's not like they don't know! Even Backyard Bullion flashed a bit of edge on his You Tube video with the 1kg Bull & Bear coin earlier.😁 (5mins 15 seconds in, I saw that)

Is there a resource anywhere which has information specifically about the edges & rims of coins? I'm interested in the history of how they were developed & what they have looked like on UK coins over time, so I can incorporate them into something I'm making, but nobody seems to care about the poor edges or rims. Asked the Royal Mint about where I could find images of what the edges looked like on the original coins from back when Isaac Newton started his war against counterfeiters, so 1699 -1727 initially, but as ever their answer was 'dunno'. I only seem to find images of the fronts & backs of coins.

The queue bit is simple. When you try to go to the Royal Mint site, instead of going to whichever page you have bookmarked, you'll get a page up telling you that you are in the queue & how many people are ahead of you. How do I know this? Because, as a newbie who only started my little collection last December, I turned up on the Royal Mint website to buy a silver 1oz bullion Britannia the day the Jubilee coins got released. I had no clue what was going on, so waited patiently to buy my Britannia, totally passed by all the Jubilee coins which were in stock at the time as I didn't know they would sell out so fast & later came back to buy one long after they were all sold out. I think the pictures of Queen Elizabeth look odd because we aren't used to seeing her in 3/4 profile, but I suppose if she were in the traditional coin profile as Charles is, she would dominate the coin due to being the 'head' for so many decades. The Charles III image isn't bad at all, but he does look a little doleful. On the plus side, I keep all my coins with the back displayed anyway so the Monarch on the front isn't so important. Hello all btw, first post here as I only joined a short while ago - love the Backyard Bullion videos on You Tube which led me here.