silverin

the main thing apart from condition is rarity ie year mintage and survival numbers. Other than that there are the years that have the oddities. Dodgy strilkes as you put it don't come into it. The "errors" are not in the strike but the making of the die, it has to be an engraver's error.

Yea I know the years, nothing that rare I don't think 53,54,58,59,65,68,70,72,74,80,86. If not London they are Sydney

Just missing the 1oz from this year 

Great purchase. One of my favorite panda designs as well. I'm missing 1oz and 1/20 oz for a complete gold BU set of this year.

10 shield back sovs, more gambling, results to follow

A half sovereign. 
My first shield. 
 
 

1909 and 1911 1/2 sovereigns an 1872 shield back full sovereign and my favorite a 1/2 eagle

2009 1 oz Gold Chinese Panda??? & 2012 1/4 oz Gold Chinese Panda???

This week I received some 5oz 2016 proof Brits most of them having spots ? Will be sending them back.

Kiwi eggs. Gold & Silver.
 

From Pobjoy Mint

90 grams scrap sterling dish for £3 from the boot sale, odd looking thing but cant grumble! also managed to sell a load of bits and bobs for £110 so will be doing more hunting tomorrow, 2 more boot sales in the morning to hit.

Had a bit of time off from work today so had some fun at my local registered numismatic coin dealer just now...
1/3 1804 Guinea
1888 Australia Sydney mint sov AU58 and my favourite and worthless piece a 1951 Festival of Britain 400 year commemorative Crown piece 
and a 300 year anniversary of The Bank of England 1994 Proof 2 Pound piece
 

The latest 5g Panda Notes from the Nanjing Mint.  This time there are 3 variations.  Normal, coloured and relief.  It's hard to see in pics but in hand, you can clearly see that the pandas are not flat in the relief version.  The same goes for the temple on all the notes.  It's still early days but in a few years I can see these being very impressive.

2013 1/4oz gold panda in mint packaging
5 silver beasts, caps courtesy of @sovereignsteve, these do look good in the flesh.
2015 Vera Zanzibar and Niue year of monkey. Really like both these coins, best monkey design Imo. 
1oz privy and 1/2 Oz year of horse. 

6 Proof 1/10 Brtiannias

2oz Bu kook set, not the easiest to photograph, but you've seen them before
 

Today it came a 2009 1/4oz goldpanda, just a lovely coin
Also it turned uo a 1oz silverpanda 1995 short twig, small date and it was a microdate

Funnily enough, I came by that name when my mate who was merely a coin collecting acqaintance at the time, had me as "sovereignsteve" in his mobile phone.

@prophet800 there is a very good thread on sovereigns in the premium members section that might interest you. Started by the aptly named @sovereignsteve ?

Happy to give advice prior to purchase.

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Just picked this up for just less than £254 with delivery. Hopefully I havent payed way over the odds
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I do laugh when people think the world is heading to a single world currency. It's never going to happen.
We can't even make a success of 20 odd countries using a single currency and yet you think a currency for 200 nations is possible.
Dream on.

Gold is still good in the longer term, but in the short term, I'm not so sure. For one thing, markets always overreact to bad news. Friday morning, gold lurched up to £1000 per ozT and then settled back; GBP/USD fell to 1.30 then recovered to 1.37; FTSE dropped 10% then recovered to down 3%. Over the next 3-4 months, the big event is the US election. The establishment are desperate to get Hillary elected and shut Trump out. Since the current president is a democrat, this means they will talk up the economy and publish lots of strong results: high GDP growth, low unemployment, high job creation, etc. Most of the results will be bull**** but people will believe them and it will make them want to vote for more of the same. This will be negative for gold. You may well be able to buy gold more cheaply in 3 months time than today. No guarantees of anything, just watch the price closely and maybe use cost averaging to get yourself in.

2014 1/4oz Gold Panda


Thanks @mr-dead
Looks good to me