Silverlocks

I'm a big fan of dollaridoos. I could be tempted to revise my policy of not buying platinum coins for one of those.

I think so as well. I certainly can't see any indication of anything like that on the website. Normally, if it's a limited mintage, you'd expect the web site to say it, the lack of which implies that it hasn't got a limited mintage.

Air-tites 'H' capsules have a range of direct fit and black ring versions that will fit coins between sovs and 39mm or so. 22mm rings for sovs, 27mm or 28mm for double sovs or most 1/2oz, 33mm for most 1oz coins, and 36mm for quints or 50 peso coins. You can also get 'T capsules' in 22mm black ring variants that will fit sovs. You can also get 39 and 40mm bare caps that will fit 1oz silver coins, and 39mm Leuchtturm ultra caps will also fit into H tubes, although the Leuchtturm 40mm caps don't quite fit H tubes, so you'll need to get Air-Tites ones for that. The major sources of 40mm coins are U.S. mint (ASEs), Casa Moneia do Mexico (Libertads), Perth Mint, RAM, NZ Mint and KOMSCO. Most other vendors do 39mm. The main strike against Air-Tites is that they're a bit pricey and a faff to get as you often have to import them from America.

Heimerle & Meulle make something similar called unity bars. Unfortunately I've never seen anybody flogging these in the UK. https://www.goldzeiten.de/produkte/gold/146/unitybox-large-250-x-1g-au https://www.goldzeiten.de/produkte/gold/145/unitybox-small-100-x-1g-au https://www.goldzeiten.de/produkte/gold/480/unitybox-xxs-32-x-1-0-g.

I would think that the shortage is only transient. With Eid coming up, they will most likely have another batch in stock before long. I don't think bars like the Royal Mint one will be particularly collectible. As far as I can tell they don't have any limited mintage. PAMP seems to be able to attract a bit of a premium because of their brand, but I don't think a lot of people actually collect PAMP bars either.

I suppose I could ask him to pick one up next time he comes to the UK.

I have to say I'm rather taken with that Bulmint phoenix design. Where did you get it from?

Eid themed gold bars are very much a thing as gold is a traditional gift for Eid, and Eid al Fitra (the holiday at the end of Ramadhan) is coming up in a couple of months. Various Indonesian outfits make bars with this sort of theme and loads of outfits in the Middle East make Eid themed items as well. Here's an Indonesian one, for example. https://www.logammulia.com/index.php/en/purchase/emas-idul-fitri

About par for the course for the Royal Munt, I should have thought.

Sovereigns or half sovs are your best bet here. This was the last year that bullion Machins were produced before a hiatus of about 15 years where only proofs were made. It was also the only year that half sovereigns were produced with the Machin portrait. Britannias weren't introduced until 1987.

@Belmont

That's a rather nice coin, and your photography game is improving.

I'm hunting for somebody who can plate it as we speak.

I might get 2023 and 2024 quarters at some point - I see the 2024 is just about to land here in Blighty.

The FU Finger From @RiverbankSilver. Not quite a gold finger, but it'll do just fine for the moment.

2022 Quarter Oz Dollaridoo

Royal Mint. Famous for its quality in 1817. Famous for its quality today.

I think really small gold that size is more of a novelty. It's fine for little gifts, but you wouldn't want to go stacking it at anywhere near its retail price. Even 1/10oz is a bit marginal - Most of the 1/10oz coins I've got I just bought to get pics of them, recognizing that I'll quite probably lose £10-20 on the sale of quite a few of them unless spot goes through the roof. To that end I've got about 15 1/10th coins or so, just a small corner of the total gold.

Somebody flogging an 1839 on FB for £4,500. Who knows if it's real? https://www.facebook.com/groups/3104752782909926/user/100000978378674/

Just wound up bankrolling a bunch of merch for the Mrs in Indonesia, so I don't have any ammo left for this month.

They only made proofs those years anyway. Pretty sure all of the Lizzie sovs OP wants are proof-only years. There might be BU doubles for some of those years, though. Edit: According to Marsh it was quints they made BU versions of.

@Solachesis commented on that. Maybe I should get some Indonesian ones and bring them back.

Maybe I should try flogging stuff there.

I suspect that HMRC will be vague on anything that doesn't have a legal precedent from a case unless the law itself is completely unambiguous. They can't guarantee that their interpretation of the law will be what a judge would decide on if something actually went to court. This means that until there has been a case they risk winding up with egg on their face (and a rash of lawsuits challenging previous decisions) if they put any implicit interpretation of the law in the advice in their publications. There's an obvious incentive there to be coy about interpreting the law in public documents. Then there's the law itself. Without making any judgement on whether Parliament is really motivated to make transparent, universally enforceable laws in the first place, there's the problem that once you codify something, you gamify it. If you state that structure A is taxable and structure B isn't, people are immediately going to set up their finances along structure B where at at all possible. So, the natural tendency of a legal system is to evolve into a series of loopholes and ad-hoc patches. Then you can get folks with a vested interest in the law remaining complex and opaque, such as Intuit (the makers of TurboTax) lobbying the Merkin government to keep the tax laws as they are, and blocking the IRS from simplifying the tax structures. Very occasionally, the law will be such a mess that somebody can get support for a major reform, but it tends to be the exception rather than the rule.

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