LawrenceChard

Well spotted. If you buy 1,000 before we correct it, I don't see why not, but would you not rather have free postage? 😎

Thanks. We had at least 1,000 in stock on Tuesday! I just queried our "stock status" 😎 Oh, for fox sake! 😎

It is probably illegal or in breach of Trading Standards rules, but there are many things I see other dealers doing, and which I consider as less than ethical. I already had little respect for Hatton Garden Metals: https://www.goldcopyright.co.uk/copyright-abuse/krugerrands-org-uk-using-copied-images/ and: https://www.goldcopyright.co.uk/copyright-abuse/hatton-garden-metals/ 😎

I did receive a reply, which included "We will not be paying the vendor out until the buyer is completely satisfied with the coin." He did attach the "condition report" photo was you had already posted. I went on to give some further "advice", which is probably all I could do. 😎

We were the last time I looked: https://www.chards.co.uk/2022-gold-bullion-sovereign-elizabeth-ii-memorial-coin/18111 Price Comparison Against Other UK Bullion Dealers - Updated at 08-Feb-2023 09:36 Qty Chards (Excl Delivery) Chards (Inc Delivery) B* G* A BB SP 1 £393.75 £399.75 £415.10 £409.80 £401.36 £403.62 £400.80 5 £393.57 £394.97 £413.10 £405.10 £396.56 £401.12 £399.59 10 £393.38 £394.18 £411.20 £404.20 £395.86 £400.62 £398.79 25 £393.20 £393.68 £409.40 £403.00 £395.35 £400.12 £397.59 50 £392.65 £393.03 £408.30 £401.80 £394.86 £399.62 £396.79 100 £391.19 £391.51 £408.30 £401.10 £393.28 £399.32 £396.79 250 £391.00 £391.37 £408.30 £401.10 £393.18 £398.92 £396.79 500 £390.82 £391.13 £408.30 £401.10 £393.18 £398.62 £396.79 1000 £390.64 £390.93 £408.30 £401.10 £393.18 £398.62 £396.79 Not only the best, but the cheapest as well! 😎

Yes, that one must have been 90+ days, unless the listing was cancelled. Ebay links are OK if they are recent. If I include any, Ioften take and add a screenshot in addition, but of course it tooks a little more time. 😎

I just e-mailed the auction house with my / our concerns. 😎

It really needs a "normal" one to enable easy comparison. Should have gone to SpecSavers. Why do TSF members almost invariably omit to include links? 😎

It would not be the first time that thousands of "experts" have simply copied and pasted, or copied and re-edited incorrect information. One of the most amusing (to me) examples concerns the number of serrations on (one ounce) gold Krugerrands: Some of this episode is related here: https://www.chards.co.uk/guides/krugerrand-misinformation-serrations/402 But there is a more detailed version here: We need to update our Chards web page! 😎

No! Have you got a link, so we can see who the culprit is? I agree, but seller probably doesn't want you to be able to see it clearly! Good forensic work! https://www.chards.co.uk/1859-gold-sovereign-victoria-young-head-shield-ansell-graded/5326 😎

I am very sorry to hear about your health problems. Don't worry too much about making mistakes on TSF, it is not important in the great scheme of things. 😎

That's OK, I'm still learning! 😎

How long until @James32 asks if there is free postage on a sheet of 20 coins?

It's not the only thing that should be blown up! 😎

May I respectfully suggest that that you think of a new title for your posts, rather than "Slack", as in and, of course, today's new entry: 😎

They may have to be undated quintuple sovereigns like the image on the e-mail! 😎

I think for "Up to 2%", they have to be genuine!

As many as people have the money to buy. I don't know the mintage for other recent years, although somebody on TSF might know. 😎 About a month ago! 😎

...or Bobby pins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_pin perhaps even barrettes (to the Americans): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_clip In fact, the coronet or diadem may actually be a cunningly disguised, ornamental hair clip! When you said "f****** hair grips!" I guess you were referring to French barrettes 😎

No, just hairgrips! 😎

This paragraph from the Wikipedia page is intruiging, and might be of great interest to the Conspiracy Theorists (Not that there are any on TSF!) Counterfeit stolen gold bars On 21 December 1983, less than four weeks after the robbery, police in Austria arrested five men, four Italians and an Austrian, at a Vienna hotel. Police also recovered ten bullion bars bearing the refiner's mark and serial numbers of bars stolen in the Brink's-Mat robbery. According to the police spokesman, the bars were gold-coated tungsten counterfeits, and therefore could not be Johnson Matthey's stolen gold bars. He said that the arrested men planned to fraudulently claim they were from the Heathrow robbery. No explanation was given as to how the counterfeiters obtained the unpublished bar serial numbers, nor the likely benefit of counterfeiting stolen property in this way. 😎

2022 Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Gold Bullion Half Sovereign + Sheets - First Photos Of course, the memorial half sovereigns look almost identical to the (full) sovereigns, except that they come packed in sheets of 20: Above: Sheet of 20 x 2022 Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Gold Bullion Half Sovereigns This is so nobody needs to ask "How many in a tube sheet?" Above: King Charles III on Obverse of 2022 Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Gold Bullion Half Sovereign Above: Reverse of 2022 Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Gold Bullion Half Sovereign Anybody care to count the serrations before we do? 😎

Sure, but they make a better base. You need to use big ones though! 😎

Try this: https://24carat.co.uk/frame.php?url=spain5pesetacrownsalfonsoxiii.html 😎

2022 Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Gold Bullion Sovereign - First Photos Reverse of 2022 QEII Memorial Bullion Gold Sovereign The date is tiny compared with the 2022 QEII normal Gold Sovereign Portrait of King Charles III on obverse of 2022 QEII Memorial Bullion Gold Sovereign We also did a serration count: The serrations are quite fine, which made them slightly more difficult to photograph. As you can see, there are 108! The half sovereigns are similar, so I may add them later. We have not yet done a serration count on the halves! 😎