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9 hours ago, GreyBeardUK said:

I'm what Londoners call "a provincial" (when they're being polite), and I'm thinking of coming down to London for a day sometime in the next couple of months.

Which coin/bullion dealers would you recommend I try to visit? They need to be in short walking distance of a tube station.

Which ones can I walk in off the street, and which would need an appointment (difficult to set up for a day trip)?

Thanks.

https://www.sharpspixley.com/

Around the corner from The Ritz

53 minutes ago, theman73 said:

The government know that a man without family have no desire to revolt having nothing to protect.

The more rainbow crosses the merrier...

£1867

Interesting point   I hadn't heard that one before👍

7 hours ago, James32 said:

What would cause a £50 spike and fall in minutes? Or has BBP not paid the WiFi bill.

Someone's tryin to wind the Fed up

They started in 1913

7 minutes ago, Gruff said:

No search engine can match a woman  

DuckDuckGo

Why go to the Royal Mint for bullion gold? Surely Chards would be better for all that

2 hours ago, AndrewSL76 said:

Never seen the Royal Mint advertise on the underground before…….

 

That's not advertising

That's "ingsoc"🙄

2 hours ago, Paul said:

"which it is"

12 hours ago, Paul said:

You're not odd I have similar feelings dropping stuff off at sage deposit, also a nice reason to pop into local city for a few beers and a slice of pizza on my day off ! 

Are you denied access during lockdown?

13 hours ago, dicker said:

A bit like Chile, who also have two currencies.  One non circulating and essentially used for investment. 
 

As Michael Caine said “not many people know that”

He also said   “moy noym is Moychael Coyne”😂

Save, buy and store Sovereigns

If it looks like a better idea to do something else at a later date it wouldn’t be difficult to arrange 🙂

Congrats🙂

3 minutes ago, Nick1368 said:

looking good, let's hope this time £1270 will hold and continue it's way to £1300 🤞

Your looking a bit stressed out there 🤔

1 hour ago, Kman said:

If they need to provide help to foreign central banks because of illiquidity that suggests there aren't enough dollars rather than they've been money printing

https://www.federalreservde.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_liquidityswaps.htm they can't print money so I'm 99.99% sure the liquidity process is just swapping dollars held from one account at the Fed to another 

"The dollars that the Federal Reserve provides are deposited in an account that the foreign central bank maintains at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

When the foreign central bank loans the dollars it obtains by drawing on its swap line to institutions in its jurisdiction, the dollars are transferred from the foreign central bank's account at the Federal Reserve to the account of the bank that the borrowing institution uses to clear its dollar transactions"

The Fed currently purchase 80 billion in treasuries every month doing QE from primary dealers but they do so by crediting collateral accounts held at the Fed with dollars that can't be spent

They did purchase corporate bonds but they did so with dollars provided by the government, I can't find the chart but I think they stopped doing that in July or August, https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm1190 the government recently asked for that money back

If they just printed dollars why would the government need to provide them with actual dollars

There isn't money printing, that's the pied piper song of the Federal Reserve to trick people into spending because they think the inflation boogeyman is coming

It's all gobbledygook to me

Either way it's a stitch-up  🙂

4 hours ago, Cornishfarmer said:

@Bumble great chart. My only surprise is Iceland being so high. Never been there but I would have thought they weren’t such a well off country 

I don't know exactly the answer but I would put it down to -

 - Small population (about 360,000)

 - Efficient Nordic style economy

 - Fishing

Also things like recently constructed, controversially, a major aluminium processing plant/reservoir (foreign owned)

No military to pay for

They are also in the top 5 richest countries in the world based on GDP per capita along with funnily enough Ireland

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjbz8CE0I7tAhXOUMAKHcVuA1IQFjABegQIBhAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftendercapital.com%2Fen%2Fthe-five-richest-countries-in-the-world-based-on-gdp-per-capita%2F&usg=AOvVaw3sZYjD-VQcw3wQ_g4mV7dH

Sizewise how does it compare with the old 10 pence/2 shilling?

15 minutes ago, Goldhooked said:

I haven’t tried but thought I probably wont bother until it comes time to sell.

I guess you could try a hairdryer to gently heat the capsule?  I’m thinking the capsule might expand faster than the coin?  Try at your own risk though!

Maybe the opposite

Put it in the fridge for a few minutes

10 minutes ago, Goldmansacks said:

Looks like a smallish coin on their website?

A 1/4 oz is a 1/4 oz😦

Congratulations @Kussilver 😀👍

Both options have worked well for me in terms of prices I've accepted and smooth transactions

Here on The Silver Forum and reputable dealers - Atkinsons, HGM, Bairds etc 🙂

Thanks for the heads up

Bought one of these (I think) but was more interested in the gold

Ah well, hey ho 🙂