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All those "attractively toned" Morgan dollars. And yeah, beautiful toning only exists on morgan dollars as natural, and they all grade at MS67. Haven't really seen old circ. silver coins from other countries behaving like that. Could that be the climate of California? Planning to get on myself, not any time soon though... I'm broke

The yens were shrank by nealy a half since Meiji year 4 or something. Off the top of my head but this one you showed is much smaller

For a pound, and you could hop on a bus for 2 of them

The original crowns exist in a large number in relative good conditions though. Why don't people just buy the original The modern remakes are no match in terms of relief and details

I don't need to change your mind. In saying all these I may have changed someone's mind already, and other minds aren't for changing. I won't get a penny sucking up to the billionaires, but I know my life (and likely yours) will get substantially worse if our society starts booting billionaires out. God is just, He knows what people want and gives it to them, and I swear He knows what they want better than the people themselves. And you still haven't answered my question. If all billionaires are vacuous blood-suckers, what about millionaires with £100m? And those with £10m? And anyone with a flat in London? Where should people draw a line before they stop having money, and if they don't are you going to draw it for them? And that I mean amount, not means. Probably no one is taking here but some might be coveting. The lesson (also biblical quotes) is not to go around make unfounded moral judgements about people based on one's own conception. We know greed is bad but hubris is always worse. Oh, and envy. In the end, Dominus novit qui sunt eius

So people have to be evil to become billionaires, is it so? What about £100m? What then about £10m? You seem to imply that there's a line to draw between evil wealth and OK wealth. Who should draw the line, and how? Those too eager to draw the line are far more evil than those upon whom the line is drawn. They'll just have to wait and say "now you're bad, we'll take." When you talk about bad morals, remember, "why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye but not the plank in your own?"

Tax is alright if well spent. Can't remember when that last happened in the past 20 years

It's illegal to shill bid, but there are ways around it, like friends or trusted dealers. But they can't make it too wild or people will find out. So HA results are somewhat reliable. EBay is a whole new story. Some people honestly want stuff that badly...

1899 10 Roubles Cracked out from an NGC MS65 slab

That's a very wild statement. It tells more about whoever says it than whom it says, as those who believe in this believe in none but crimes and will not hesitate to commit any should they wish. That's also how they'd justify their murderous banditry; "rich people bad" I hear they cry, "let's do whatever we want to them"

They used master tools to stamp the dies then hand carved some details. I guess this could be the reason. It's actually easier to carve things raised than incused, because they'd know the relief of different parts of the design. The master tools were handmade and hence all the differences. https://www.royalmintmuseum.org.uk/collection/master-tools-and-dies/ These will need to be reworked from time to time, but far less frequent than the dies were remade. Say a punch lasted to make 100 dies, and each die was used to make 10,000 coins or more, for every million coins you remade the die 100 times and the punch only once. The master tools were also used to counterstamp the spanish silver in the 1790s and until 1804.

The thieves need locking up not a slap on the wrist, even if the stolen goods are returned...

Funniest of them all is SBF who believed he needed urgently to do good to the society, then proceeded to hastily steal customers' funds. Effective altruism, eh?

The original St G didn't have one until 1887. However, the 1823 (perhaps the only double with St.G before 1887) had the streamer. Streamer also appeared on the George III crowns. 1/2 sovs did not feature St.G until 1893, and by then streamer was the standard. So it's all keeping with tradition that the £1 should have not the streamer while all others do.

If gold and silver are anything "manipulated" on the table, cryptos are like underground casinos. You don't even need to buy/sell derivatives or actually shift physical, and all you need is a couple of tweets and a crowd of juvenile nouveaux

$500 each month was big money in the 70s and 80s. If you could afford $500/mo back in the 70s and have not gone broke in 92, 97, 08, etc, you will either have 1) quit gold completely 2) raised your stakes massively to something like $5000/mo 3) become a collector spending tens of thousands on single coins, f (short for foget) bullion

Thanks guys. Just happen to have some crappy duplicates to offload but have no idea how to price

1/4 same size as the sov, 1/10 for the povoes. 1/2s are unpopular for the same reason double sovs are, namely you don't get the same liquidity of the smaller ones, and not the aesthetics of the big

£420 and £380, that's quite interesting pricing. May I humbly ask why?

How about a Christmas gift for yourself my firend (in Screwtape style)

1) there isn't a consensus that prices will tumble. There will most likely be rate cuts coming which drive up commodities, and there might be wars hither and thither which also drive up prices. In any case, consensus on an online forum should not form your investment strategy, but I do think it's a good idea to regularly buy physical gold at a rate you could afford to. 2) 1oz at £1600 ish might be too large a sum for many people. We always recommend smaller units because they're easier to liquidate. If you're in the UK you will also benefit from CGT exemption of UK legal tender coins. A small and received UK legal tender gold is the sovereign (post 1837), and that's where most people start their journeys. Edit: sovereigns dated before 1982 have a silky lustrous look and are easier to shift in my opinion. Sovereigns dated between 1918 and 1932, and 1957-1982, tend to exist in very good condition and are visually attractive. From a stacker's perspective this shouldn't matter, but there are some conditionally aware stackers, and so it might help resale if your sovereigns are in good condition. Alternatively, try Victoria shield sovereigns (1838-1887, but practically 1842-1884) which sell well regardless of condition.

Cheeky little things.

Tried to bid on an 1887 MS64 half sov but didn't get it. It went all the way to £740 which is way more than what an MS64 gets at major auctions...

Yes there does seem to be some very expensive coins that resurface one a while. Rare, but not too rare, and straight expensive, like some old VF 5 guineas and the 1937. There are relatively few who can afford them, and UK coins are nowhere as in demand as the US coins. I'm personally uninterested in US coins, but I can see there are just many more rich people there. Same for the Chinese coins, but those are far, far more fraudulent. That said, there are coins so rare you'd have to buy as soon as you see one. I came across an UNC Details coin of a very desirable type, with a tiny mechanical damage barely visible with naked eyes and overall brilliant uncirculated. Which is a pity. It's still marketed for a hefty sum, and I decided to buy it, because I will likely not see another with straight grade (and comparable eye appeal) in the next decade or so and probably will not be able to afford it. Not sure if I did the right thing though, because Details coins don't sell these days, and I won't get the money back. Very, very, very bad investment, totally heart-driven decision. And if one day I can afford a numerically graded equivalent I'd be rich enough not to worry about the loss I took today. Still, you know, details is a dirty word today, and I avoided details coins like plague, so I'm very conflicted now.

The Buckingham Palace in gold is stunning, but I think I'll skip this set because the price is too high. It's too hard to shift modern proofs these days...