WizardOfSov

Hi,
8x bullion sovereigns - £398 each plus post
1926 sa sold
2x 1911
1910
1897 m
1895 s
1888 m (have to look from an angle to see the "m") sold
1876 sold
Take 4, free SD post
All 8 for £3155  posted (2 packages)
Bank transfer or PPFF please.
Thanks.

All Sold, thanks TSF 👍

Five bullion Sovereigns
 
Dates available:
1899 - SOLD
1914 - SOLD
1915 - SOLD
1917 Perth - SOLD
1918 India - SOLD
 
£394 + Post
UK address only
Bank Transfer & PayPal F&F accepted
 
 

I will take the 1915 if still available please

Hi all,
I am a newbie and focusing on stacking silver and gold whilst I get my head around some of the basics of collecting, by watching and learning.  Looking to make a hobby of it and become more serious in a couple of years on retirement.  I discovered the forum via Backyard Bullion and have so far found everyone very welcoming and helpful.

Regards,
Daz

Hello All
I am Daz,I am new to the forum and new to precious metals. I am looking to gain some knowledge and start buying. My preference is buying gold but will dabble in silver as well.
 
Kindest Regards

Thank you sir 🫡
Thank you, it's good to be here. 🍺

Hello All,
 
I thought I would introduce myself here. I'm Nathan and I'm currently living the the highlands of Scotland. I'm interested in investments generally (I love a bit of technical analysis on a financial cart) and have recently started to become interested in precious metals as an investment and a store of value. I will likely be more of a lurker here than a poster, but will be looking to buy on the forum. Other interests include beer, film photography, beer and wild camping and beer. 
See you around,
 
Nathan. 

I look forward to gaining knowledge from this group. I am a senior citizen starting to collect or maybe stack silver. I am a super newbee and have always tried to be frugal and save for the future. Now more than ever I believe metals are the only way to go. So better late than never is my motto. I appreciate your patience if I ask silly questions (yes, I will check the previous newbee posts first). I am excited to have found you and thank the Silver Slayer for mentioning this group. 

hello everyone
Started stacking over 1yr ago, I have a passion for Geography & especially in Geology and never been able to direct my love in to a job but metals, minerals and how this amazing planet was formed and how it works is amazing.
I love to collect all types of Silver, which I seem to have an affinity towards, I love Gold, but Silver is my thing - I have several bars and lots of coins which I'm ALWAYS looking to expand on. I don't always earn loads of money but I have a set amount I invest in my future and my daughter for whatever may come up or... if not, i just love collecting this beautiful metal! 
Hope everyone is well, and is having a great week..
Peace y'all! 

Hiya. I'm new here. I guess you'd call me a stacker. I've been listening to Peter Schiff and Mike Maloney for years. I like silver, but not so much the storage fees, so I intend to be shopping around on here. I'm probably most interested in 1oz silver britannias.
I'm also pleased to see a busy marketplace with competitive prices here. Initially, I'm interested as a buyer, but the notion of trading for profit sparks a curiosity in me. How are these coins sourced for lower margins? Or is that a closely guarded secret?

Just finding my way around..

Hello and welcome 🙂

Hello everyone,
I am new to this forum and excited to join this community.
I have a couple of sovereigns I'm planning to sell and want to try doing so on this forum since I've heard great things.
Kind regards

Hello and welcome 🙂

Hello,

My name is Rich, and I am a passionate collector of all things silver and an owner of a small fan site dedicated to silver collecting. I'm happy to have discovered this forum and will undoubtedly include it on my website's list of top-notch resources for fellow silver collectors. I'm eagerly looking forward to tapping into the wealth of knowledge and experience shared by the members of this community, while also offering my own insights and assistance to anyone who may benefit from it. Let's keep the silver spark alive!

Going to be doing a run of these from 1991 to current year in PF70's.

'1925' Sovereign.
In the late 40's, when Britain needed money after WW2, they decided to make some more sovereigns.  But since they wanted to save as much money as possible, they just reissued the 1925 design.  So this is technically a restrike.
It's difficult to tell the difference between the 3+ million original 1925 coins and the 880,000 restrikes, but apparently the restrikes have a more defined and raised ridge.  This one definitely does, and the reeding is nearly perfect.  So either I have a really good example of an original 1925, or a pretty good example of a restrike.

Hi
This topic was inspired by comments from @theman73 and @Silverlocks.
To summarise: trying to use a close-focusing telephoto lens to photograph coins.
I have no idea how much you know about photography, so I will try to stay fairly basic.  Some of what I say will not be 100% correct, as I may miss out scenarios and exceptions to rules.  I welcome people correcting / augmenting my description in the comments.  This topic is not meant to be a general tutorial on how to take photos of coins.
Definitions
(Feel free to skip if you are familiar with the terms.)
Basically, aperture is how wide open the lens is.  It is controlled by a diaphragm inside the lens that blocks the light.  Sometimes this is fixed (most mobile phones), but sometimes it can vary.  Confusingly, the wider the aperture, the smaller the f-stop number.  f/1 is wide and lets in a lot of light, f32 is narrow and lets in a tiny amount of light.
Put simply, depth of field is how much of a scene is in focus.  A wide depth of field means both close and distant things are in focus.  This is what most 'snappy' cameras and mobile phones want to achieve most of the time, because it's easy - when photographing groups of people, buildings and landscapes, you want everything in focus.  A narrow depth of field means only a small 'range of distances' is in focus.  This is useful for isolating subjects, like in portrait photography. 
Optically, depth of field is relative to the f-stop when the photo is taken, and that is determined by the ratio of aperture diameter (how wide open the lens is) to focal length (how long the lens is).
The problem
Mobile phone cameras have a relatively small diameter and therefore aperture.  Normally, because the focal length is also pretty small, this leads to a kind of average f-stop of f/5.6 to f/11.  This is a really useful range of apertures, and means that for most photography, most subjects are in focus and most backgrounds are pleasantly blurred.
However, strapping a great big telephoto lens on the front means a small aperture coupled with a long focal length, which gives you a very small (high number) f-stop, say f/22 to f/32.  So, you are not getting much light onto the sensor.  To compensate for that, the phone will either decrease the shutter speed or increase the ISO (sensitivity), or both.  Decreasing shutter speed leads to camera shake and motion blur, unless you are using a tripod.  Increasing ISO leads to noisy photos and loss of detail.  Also, having such a small f-stop has its own problems, as your lens starts to act as a diffraction grating, and you get blur.
With such a small aperture, you would think that your depth of field would be pretty good.  However, at macro sizes, your depth of field will still, at best, be a couple of millimetres.  And that is only if you can get the phone to accurately focus with a third-party lens strapped to it.
Put simply, there is no way a phone with a telephoto lens is going to match even the cheapest DSLR or Mirrorless camera with a macro lens.  Physics just gets in the way at every turn.  A lens and sensor that is 3mm across vs a lens that's ~60mm and sensor that's 35mm - no competition.
What I would do
Honestly, if your phone has a half decent camera on it with a high enough pixel count and good macro focusing (ultrasonic), take the lens off, hold the camera about 6-12 inches away from the coin, and take a photo.  Even better, use a tripod, use manual settings to control the shutter speed and ISO, and that should sort out the camera shake issue too.  Your coin will look tiny in the photo, but then crop it down - you have the megapixels to do it.
How could it work?
If you are thinking of buying a macro or close-focus lens for your phone, think long and hard.  If you must, buy one from an established lens manufacturer, not a cheap plastic thing from Amazon.  Optical quality makes a difference, and the example photos on Amazon are almost certainly fake.
With or without a third-party lens, here are some tips:
Use a modern phone.  Something at the top of the range from the last 5 years or from a mid-range in the last 2 years.  You need a high pixel count if you want to crop photos, and you need reliable focusing. Use a tripod.  You can get pretty cheap mobile phone tripods.  Get a metal one, not plastic, from a good tripod make.  Plastic ones will be useless, and a waste of money. Use manual photo mode on the phone.  Keep the shutter speed above 200 for hand-held.  Let the ISO go wild - see post-processing.  Take lots of photos and see what works - digital photos are free. Control the lighting.  Precious metals reflect everything.  If you can, build or buy a lightbox - a box about 1-2 feet on every side, with one side open for you, and drape some black cloth over the front to avoid light coming in.  Use a flash or torch or some kind of light you can position.  Lighting is a huge topic on its own. Learn how to do basic post-processing of photos.  Find software that will remove noise from high ISO photos, and can crop and straighten images.  I recommend G.I.M.P. which is free and has a lot of open-source community support.

Lovely couple of shields (43 & 57) from @vicamy and a 1/4 Lib from elsewhere 

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I prefer the more yellow pre 2000 colour but I don't dislike the redder alloy.

Thank you, please PM for payment details

I will take 2x King George please.