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On 26/05/2018 at 20:37, prophet800 said:

Oh that is an absolute beauty ??

2 hours ago, ilovesilverireallydo said:

Bought as scrap. Basically coin centres from a coin ring maker which were going to be scrapped - I thought they looked cool. Coins range from 50%-90% silver and smaller than a 5 pence coin. @PansPurse you may want to see these Hopefully you start saving your coin ring centres too  

 

 

Ooh, they've been punched out. Yes that looks much better than my bumbling attempts at drilling:

8 minutes ago, caloundracats said:

Love it. Wish I could afford those larger coins and makes my small collection of QB somewhat pale in comparison. On the plus side, mine are easier to slip into your pocket

#GonnaNeedABiggerPocket

On holiday so no silver unboxing for me until next week. But in the meantime I picked up some old pennies that might make for interesting coin-ring practice:

You know how I said I wasn't going to buy any more PMs until the group order arrived? Yeah I failed. But a very very pretty half crown to add to my collection courtesy of @Numistacker

My friends will tell you (incorrectly) that I'm a person of few vices... So I thought I'd get a new one:

Not a PM in/of itself but part of my crafty plans involving silver...

21 hours ago, sg86 said:

Something a little different for me

Ooh lovely, haven't seen a bare head of these before

1 hour ago, Oldun said:

https://www.army-technology.com/features/featurethe-emp-threat-is-enough-being-done-4605258/

Thanks for the link. I am genuinely curious about the current state of EMP weaponry (I wrote an essay on this way back in the day).

That said, that article doesn't particularly worry me. Like I said before the main prospects are a solar storm or nuclear war. The article is annoyingly vague on what it means by EMps and a lot of what's described could be referring to things like microwave or radio-frequency jamming technologies or to directed energy weapons. Not that these aren't things that militaries should be aware of and planning for, but that they're not the kind of thing that can, say, take out a country's power grid and internet at a stroke.

Actually one of the benefits of internet-based technologies is that they're remarkably resilient to attacks that take out part of the system.

9 minutes ago, Oldun said:

Hard to make never bothered national armies before and believe me, they have all have a ton of them plus more.

What are you basing this on?

17 minutes ago, Oldun said:

NNEMP

https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/NNEMP

Yes, but they're very hard to make, not particularly powerful and have very limited range

10 minutes ago, Oldun said:

One decent emp and tata the internet and electricity.

Yes, except EMPs are actually very hard to make and pretty short range.

Short of a major solar flare or a nuclear explosion, in which case I'll likely have other things to worry about

Another day, another eBay fake 

19 minutes ago, morezone said:

 

Kylo Ren's Light Sabre in 24k gold weighing ~18.1g

 

 

Not gonna lie, totally thought that was a cane... 

41 minutes ago, JunkBond said:

 

40 pints of the good stuff

Here's mine, although I shudder to think of drinking it by the pint. I encourage relaxed sipping from small glasses

18 minutes ago, Roy said:

Home brew?! You're a gentleman and a scholar 

What are the coppers for though?

Oh fantastic  I've been hoping to share some pics of the seven gallons I've got bubbling away under the stairs

3 minutes ago, Kellyrob1uk said:

Just received this coin for my 30th birthday. Can’t find a lot of info about it. Does anyone no anything about it. Thank you.

 

It's from Laos, sandwiched between Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and China.

I'd also add that I'm naturally sceptical of anyone who spends a third of their white paper waxing lyrical about how amazing something is before actually trying to explain it.

8 minutes ago, JunkBond said:

The poor old 1/2 oz gets a bit overlooked, have you considered a 1/2 krug, low premium and still a decent lump of a coin, blows a 1/4 out of the water.

Only take you half as long to save up for too.

Speaking as a scientist I approve of this idea... A half it is (though I may go for a half Britannia)

As everyone has highlighted, the premium for small bars is the kicker. If I only have twenty or forty quid I'm more inclined to pick up some silver, harder to lose and feels like you've actually got something for your money.

That said, the crazy price of gold has really stumped the bit of me that likes a nice lump of something. 1/4oz doesn't seem to cut it but saving for an ounce is going to take ages 

Yeah just one of many reasons why I'm not going anywhere near this.

22 minutes ago, sixgun said:

You can spend the kinesis currency at any amount. The redemption limit depends on the type of Kinesis currency you have. As i read it you can redeem 100g gold and 5kg silver as a minimum.

So if I don't have 100g (or maybe 1kg) of gold I can't redeem that as metal.

On 29/03/2018 at 13:36, sixgun said:

The currency is blockchain title of ownership of gold or silver. So if you have 1 x KWG you have title of ownership on a specific 1kg gold bar. You can redeem the KWG for the bar. There are lower limits on redemption. i don't remember the lower limits but they aren't something huge. When the coins are 'cashed in' for the metal those currency coins are extinguished.

The lower redemption limit in the "Kinesis Blueprint" you linked to a month or so back was a kilogramme of gold.

Just now, ilovesilverireallydo said:

Way too much - can’t even bring myself to open the rest. Talk about blowing the budget. 

Omg, is that a real Bitcoin?