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Some more of my beloved Beasts.. and a half Sov

Hope someone finds this interesting:
 
Gold:
Average house price in 1975 (when my dad bought his first house no other reason for this date was) £10,388.
The price of Gold was around £70 per oz. So that’s around 148.4 ozs required to buy a house. 148:1
Todays average house price is £247,000. The current price of gold is around £1,400 per oz. So that’s around 176 ozs required, 176:1
So house prices have exceeded Gold over the last 45 years (based on the paper/spot price of gold of course). 
By end of this year, these figures could look a lot different if House prices fall and gold keeps rising, it could look more like 1975’s ratio???

Now Silver:
Average house price in 1975 at £10,388. The price of Silver was around £2 per oz. So that’s around 5,194 ozs required to buy a house. 5,194:1
Todays average house price at £247,000. The current price of silver is around £14 per oz. So that’s around 17,642ozs required. 17,642:1
 
Silvers not that great a PM as gold for keeping up with house prices it seems but maybe I picked a bad year?????? Few free to mess around with the years and let me know your result.
If anyone on the other side of the pond would like to do the USA version that would be good!!!

Received these wonderful 2020 1 oz The Silver Forum bars (#92, #94) from @BackyardBullion! Excellent addition to the annual series!



 
Also, the seventh of eight in the Chia Re-strike series! Here are five handsome 2020 China 1 oz Silver Twin Dragon Dollar Restrike (PU)...





Also, an added Wedge-Tailed Eagle to the Australia WTE collection with this lovely 2015 1 oz Silver Australian Wedge-Tailed Eagle High Relief Proof! (The coin is in pristine condition, with the capsule being scuffed)

 

 
And a bit of US space history received! A 
1988 Gold Space Shuttle-America in Space Young Astronaut Medal (0.24187 oz Gold).
Congress approved legislation authorizing this medal; the bill was signed by President Reagan on March 12, 1986, becoming Public Law 99-295. The authorizing law specified that 10 percent of the revenue from sales was to go to the Young Astronaut Council's annual budget. The medals' obverse design was chosen from more than 17,000 entries submitted by YAC student members from across the country. Designed by Brian Kachel, then 12, of Jersey City, N.J., it features a space shuttle in flight. The design was sculptured by Mint sculptor-engraver Chester Y. Martin. The obverse design incorporates the inscriptions LIBERTY and the year 1988. The reverse, designed by Robert Ahlcrona, features a right-facing eagle, with its wings spread, perched on top of the Young Astronauts Program logo surrounded by stars. The inscriptions UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and YOUNG ASTRONAUTS are incorporated into the design.


 
Lastly, not a PM, but what should be a must for any Sovereign lover! A Royal Mint Gold Sovereign paperweight! This one is a 1984 dated Sovereign!

UPS man was good to me
2oz of PT


 
and some silver



 
 

 

 

 

 
 

Postie delivered these today from Eldorado Coins.

I've finally got the complete 10 oz set of Kookaburra's as well as some extras picked up along the way.

1957,1959,2012 Sovereigns

1957,1959,2012 Sovereigns

1957,1959,2012 Sovereigns

1957,1959,2012 Sovereigns

1957,1959,2012 Sovereigns

1957,1959,2012 Sovereigns

1957,1959,2012 Sovereigns

1957,1959,2012 Sovereigns

1957,1959,2012 Sovereigns

1957,1959,2012 Sovereigns

1957,1959,2012 Sovereigns

1957,1959,2012 Sovereigns

1957,1959,2012 Sovereigns

1957,1959,2012 Sovereigns

Postman did well today 

Won this date run of lovely condition Netherlands 25 Cents .640 silver coins, I only wanted one example of this coin but I won all of these for a very low bid, going to keep one (1940) and sell the other two (of which my boss wants first dibs next time I see her).
1941 was the last year that the Netherlands minted their own silver coins when the nazis invaded and stripped the country of anything of value, after this date the only silver Dutch coins were minted by various mints in the USA.
Production figures for the three coins are as follows
1939,  4,000,000
1940,  9,000,000
1941,  40,000,000
 

Well got a new case today from Kay at master coin cases to go with the one I bought from Shaun here on the silver forum  well chuffed just need to fill them lol 

A recent indulgent purchase - beans on toast it is for the next 6 months...😩





 

These two beauties came in the post today. Cheers to @Stacker2020 for selling and sending them so quickly!