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As many as people keep buying! 🙂

NDA? What about a cheque? 🙂

Could this be the next coin in the Royal Mint's Great Engravers series: or: Just an idea!

Nothing much to choose between them. Buy whatever is at the lowest premium within reason.

They might be electrum if you went back to about 350 B.C., but most ancient Roman coins were gold, silver, copper, or brass.

Real bullion dealers use live prices, not moving average prices, unless the moving average is over the last 10 seconds or so. Gold prices change constantly. Quoted spot prices might only get updated at intervals, but would typically only be a few seconds, depending on factors such as server loads and bandwiths. Big prices swings can and will affect supply and demand of course, and this in turn affects dealers' stocks.

1880-S Sydney Mint Shield Sovereign with inverted A instead of V in Victoria: ... and the reverse: When was Scrabble invented?

More likely to be a different / worn / collar, or similar problem.

Would require a minimum of four.

Wor man, I've been to Spittal before. It must be the only place in the UK with no off-license. Got a very nice crab sandwich, too. Sounds like a deal. Can it be a dead parrot? Just remembered, the crab sandwich was in Craster. All we got in Spittal was a deep fried frozen pizza and chips.

No, otherwise I would have commented.

Interesting Milled Edge Differences on 2021 Silver Bullion Britannias About 2 weeks ago, we received 20,000 x 2021 Silver Britannias Our photographer noticed the milled edges looked unusual, so did a side by side comparison: The whole batch seemed to be the same. Last week we received a further 20,000 of them, and they all appear to be normal. Without checking I don't know which is which, and as we have none of the earlier batch left, I can only ask. Update, our photographer just messaged me (at 22.58!) to tell me the odd looking one is on the left.

Sounds like a rather restrictive and unneccesary policy. Why should Amazon want to dictate what you can and can't do with one of their gift cards? I'd be tempted to stick their gift cards up their rear end. Apart from that, I can't really help, unless you have some friendly dealer who will let you buy silver rounds, then swap them back for the coins which you would rather buy in the first place. 🙂

The other insight I can give about Australian kangaroos (are there any other types), is that they are not very good at spelling, as evidenced by: "1 oz 2020 Perth Mint Silver Kanagroos thickess" 🙂

At the very least he could and should have asked you first, and not committed himself to buying, and expect you to accept it. So, he wanted time to pay instead of paying for time? 🙂

For "big ticket" read "big profit". Many bullion deals are "big ticket" (high value). "Free" credit is almost non-existent, and an oxymoron. Credit has a cost to the lender, consisting of financing cost, risk, and administrative costs. Unless the supplier is a true altruist, then it is the buyer who pays for his "free" credit. Lawaways are a lower risk middle ground. Some of the coin marketing companies offer instalment payments, typically 3 payments, but usually their prices are about 50% higher than competitors. Competitive markets such as bullion could not operate sustainably offering free credit.

Free credit? That must be getting very rare... Unless it like "free" postage, or... Free beer. 🙂

To follow up with a more serious response: Are you aware "Investment Gold" is exempt from VAT in the UK and EU? Silver is taxable at standard rate (20% in UK). So you still want to invest in silver? Any "Sterling" coins (UK £s) are also exempt from CGT. If you still prefer to buy silver: One well known Blackpool dealer almost always has the lowest delivered (you can collect) quantity prices in the UK. You could try doing "grey" imports. You could buy piecemeal peer-to-peer from TSF members, but don't expect to pay 20% less than new dealer-sourced coins. All the above assumes you want to have it in physical in your hands, making you a collector / stacker. If you are serious about the investment element, you can legally avoid the VAT by buying for exempt storage. The same Blackpool dealer offers secure offshore storage (in Zurich), which cost 0.6% plus VAT per annum (compared with Royal Mint storage of at least 1.0% plus VAT). Now, if I can just remember the name of the world famous Blackpool dealer, established in 1964... 🙂

I have never worried about, or given much thought to how thick a kangaroo is. According to some "expert" on Quora: "Yes, kangaroos are intelligent animals. They display their intelligence by bouncing around on their hind Limbs and keeping their front limbs free so they can smack their opponents in the nose." Sounds to me rather like Blackpool Promenade most weekends. 🙂

I think I would go with 14,285 bullion sovereigns from the days I used to sell them at £4 each, £37.10s per ten, £365 per hundred, and £3,500 per thousand. that was between 1964 and 1966. 50000 3.5 14285.71 So, it might even have 14,286 if I round up like a true mathematician. Disclosure: I used to make about 2/- each on them (10p).

Anything I have got is for sale (just don't tell my wife). I just checked our website, with a search for 1833, https://www.chards.co.uk/products?search=1833, and it is not yet live, but then we have lots of stock which has not yet made it to our site. You could keep a look out for it, contact @ChardsCoinandBullionDealer, or e-mail info@chards.co.uk. I posted it TSF because it had recently been photographed, and included "Italy" in the title rather Sardinia (Italian States), and I am slightly pedantic, and because it's a nice looking coin.

In the 2021 Spink catalogue, it is listed at £13,5000 in FDC. the 4 coins list separately at a total of £14,000. Any proof sets before 1970 are unlikely to be FDC, but that is probably a reasonable estimate for about FDC. By ungraded, I guess you mean not graded by a professional third party grading service, which is quite a mouthful, so unslabbed would be good shorthand. Of course, nobody is ever going to sell one without seller or buyer assigning their won grading to it. Because these pre' 1970 sets were housed in push fit boxes, not in capsules, most have at least hairline scratches, fingerprints, or other imperfections. Obviously some sets are better than others. The intrinsic value is just over £2,600. Bearing this in mind, I would say from under £10k to £20k. that's a wide range, but anyone paying this kind of money is likely to be looking very closely at its condition, unless they are buying it from the Royal Mint, who would probably be asking £25k to £30k for one. To put this in perspective, the 15 coin silver and base metal set crown to farthing catalogues in Spink at £400, but the Royal Mint are asking £645, and even then it is shown as "No Longer Available", although some later text contradicts this "We currently have a small number of The 1937 George VI Coronation Proof sets".

Sardinia gold 50 lire of Carlo Alberto: Obverse: Reverse: a.k.a Charles Albert

My / our age old advice for gold investors: Buy at the lowest premium within reason. "the newer 24ct ones have better security.". Does that mean they arrive in their own strongroom, with bulit in burglar alarm? (Mainly) a marketing gimmick! Would you be just as happy buying a 22ct Britannia 1 oz as a new 24ct? Some potential buyers might dislike the ultra-low-relief 2013, but then again some people love them. They all contain a trou ounce of gold. There is a bonus with the 22ct ones, you do get 1/11th of an ounce of silver / copper alloy thrown in at no extra cost. Free silver! No VAT! Think positive.

Although it looks like the latest branding fad is to remove all (most) vowels from your company name*, so: Standard Life Aberdeen becomes abrdn (and not even a capital "a"). Probably spent £3 million on consultants fees to advise them. It's about time we rebranded chrdscnndbllndlr. How catchy is that? We could even get one step ahead and dump all the consonants instead: aoiauioeae Right!, just off to register 2 new domain names. * Could avoid having to translate all company documents into Welsh.