spookyandroid

Some very impressive stacks on here.
Here's my collection, started this year after cycling out of crypto. Got a 5Kg bar currently on order and then I'm done.

Hi all,

Silver and gold stacker here, mostly bars with some coins too. If anyone actually has some adamantium, I'd certainly be interested in discussing this fictional alloy with you.

Found my way to this forum whilst seeking more info on other silver enthusiasts being as most of my friends aren't into PMs.

Hoping I can contribute to the forum in a positive way.

Spooky.

How can you type with those badboys?
Nice bling.

Not sure if it's been said, but a direct exchange of silver for goods as opposes cash would seem the obvious solution, the assumption being that anyone is willing to do that. It could pave the way for a new type of brokerage as I feel many will want to avoid the CBDCs system.

How can you do so many things with such talons? - There is a secret art to it only Emperor Ming and women know.

i got these from @GoldShack - now there is a beast with claws guarding them.
    

Some very impressive stacks on here.
Here's my collection, started this year after cycling out of crypto. Got a 5Kg bar currently on order and then I'm done.

Some very impressive stacks on here.
Here's my collection, started this year after cycling out of crypto. Got a 5Kg bar currently on order and then I'm done.

No, I still have PTSD after the last time.

It's on order from Umicore. I just wanted a 5KG. Perhaps an underlying thing of always wanting to hold something large that I own in my hand but never being able to. lol

It's on order from Umicore. I just wanted a 5KG. Perhaps an underlying thing of always wanting to hold something large that I own in my hand but never being able to. lol

Yeah I suppose there's is certainly a hundred worse ways to spend/squander money. 
 
 

Whats the difference between Public and External debt to GDP? and if its a case of public and actual, why would Japan want to over exaggerate?
In other news, Silver looking good today. Could break up on the shorter TF

Put up a listing.  Coins have a higher premium than 1kg bars so you won't get weight for weight, but you could probably put up an offer for a swap of a 1kg bar for a tube of Brits and a bit of change (I think it's worth slightly more than a single tube).  Somebody might be interested.
You and @HerefordBullyun are birds of a feather.

It's on order from Umicore. I just wanted a 5KG. Perhaps an underlying thing of always wanting to hold something large that I own in my hand but never being able to. lol

😆 🤣 so it's already paid for? 
Ignore everything I said,it's a bargain and enjoy in good health. 

I suggest you hang around here and just keep an eye on the buy/sell forums for a while.  Buy some sovereigns while you're at it.  Here in blighty you pretty much can't go wrong with sovs as long as you don't overpay.
From my observations over a few months here, these are things that seem to come up in quantity and do well on the secondary market:
Tubes of Britannias (or other 1oz coins): As individuals with no VAT obligations, folks will sometimes buy monster boxes and flog tubes off for a little over what they paid.  This tends to be good value, and people will often take advantage of a dip in the spot price for silver to do this.  Expect to save something like a couple of quid per ounce over dealer prices.  Brits are also exempt from capital gains tax, although you get a hail mary of £12,000 or so before CGT kicks in.  There's also a healthy trade in people flogging tubes to raise a few bob for this and that. Individual 1oz coins:  People often come onto the market here selling a batch of coins.  It can be worth picking up 5 or 10 coins at the right price. 10oz, 500g and 1kg silver bars: Keep an eye on the premiums and decide what you think is an appropriate premium, but these can be a good buy on the secondary market. 10oz coins: Keep an eye on the premium but Royal Mint 10oz coins are exempt from capital gains tax. Sovereigns and half sovereigns: Sovs tend to go for about £15 over spot or thereabouts.  Half sovs have a slightly higher premium but can be worth picking up at the right price.  Sovs are very liquid as individual coins are cheap enough that most folks can afford them.  They have a low spread due to the large numbers minted (something like 900 million)* so they are good value as an investment.   Fractional gold: 1/4 and 1/10oz coins tend to have fairly high premiums at a dealer, but if you can get them at the right price on the secondary market they are very liquid and therefore easy to sell. 1oz gold coins (especially Britannias): These also sell very well and have a relatively low spread even if you buy from a dealer as you can generally get about spot+3% or so on the secondary market from my observations.  Britannias are also legal tender in the UK, so exempt from capital gains tax; they also have good anti-counterfeiting measures, especially recent years.  Thus they tend to be trusted, even though the silver ones have issues with milking. Fractional gold bars or gold bars up to 1oz: If you can get them at an appropriate premium, these are quite liquid.  As @James32 says, folks are - with good cause - paranoid about fakes.  It's not hard to find listings for fake gold bars on shoppee, aliexpress or tokopedia. A lot of folks like graded coins and proof coins, but these are getting you into numismatics, which is a whole can of worms in its own right.  I don't feel that I understand enough to get involved with proof coins at the moment, and I suggest you steer clear of them until you know what you're doing.  They can be quite expensive with a massive premium over spot for the metal, and they may or may not hold their numismatic value.  
* By my back-of-a-fag-packet calculation, more tonnage of gold has been minted in sovereigns than either Krugerrands or American Gold Eagles - by a factor of about 10.
 

Some very impressive stacks on here.
Here's my collection, started this year after cycling out of crypto. Got a 5Kg bar currently on order and then I'm done.

Some very impressive stacks on here.
Here's my collection, started this year after cycling out of crypto. Got a 5Kg bar currently on order and then I'm done.

Funny really, never give much thought to selling, just holding. Exiting requires some changes in strategy it seems
 

In my opinion*, much above 1oz, gold starts running into liquidity problems if you try to sell it on the secondary market, which means you are more likely to have to resort to selling larger (say 100g or more) bars back to a dealer.  Whereas you could sell Brits onto the secondary market at (say) spot+3% or so you would likely get something more like spot -2.5% for the larger gold bars sold back to a dealer.**  Chances are you would have trouble shifting larger gold bars in quantity on the secondary market, meaning you would likely have to go down the dealer route.  Brits or Sovs, on the other hand, will sell pretty much anywhere, anytime.
What that means is that if you're prepared to sell on the secondary market (treat Ebay with caution but we don't bite here) then 1oz and fractional gold could be shifted in quantities up to 10oz or so fairly readily, and possibly more.***  1kg silver bars will sell at not too far below dealer price and are fairly liquid.  Not sure about 100oz bars; they don't come up here all that often - I can't remember one, although others might.
* Note that I am not a financial adviser, nor do I play one on TV.
** iirc that's what @Clarkatroid was offered for his 100g bars. 
*** The largest sale I've seen here was 93 sovereigns and I've seen folks selling several dozen on quite a few occasions.  Ebay has more capacity but you're into shark infested waters and significant risk from buy-side scammers.

Your money and your perogative sir, stay clear of the 5kg bar and if you really must,grab a 100ozer.

That's what we all say when the wifey receives the parcel.

Some very impressive stacks on here.
Here's my collection, started this year after cycling out of crypto. Got a 5Kg bar currently on order and then I'm done.

Some very impressive stacks on here.
Here's my collection, started this year after cycling out of crypto. Got a 5Kg bar currently on order and then I'm done.