LittleJohnSilver

.....1 x 2018 silver 1oz Britannia, courtesy of a £10 ebay redemption voucher.

Price paid: £10.99

Bargain!

1g jobbies are more like tic tacs

15 hours ago, Lowlow said:

The U.S. is harder on its citizens regarding "offshoring".  I've always hated that word because it assumes a lot - it assumes a purpose, even a perspective, when in reality it's just a human being and their money who just happen to exist in physical places and get rewarded or penalized by the governments who presume to control those places.

The U.S. has been setting up what is essentially an overseas compliance system to insure that its own citizens are penalized more harshly than any people on the earth for having "unreported" money and transactions overseas.

People in Europe are fortunate to have a history of doing business overseas and having loads of ex-pats out in the world doing business daily, your own people who live "overseas" would raise such a ruckus that your governments couldn't stop your own citizens from engaging in foreign trade, nor would they want to.

The U.S. is very different in this regard - it seems to see its own citizens efforts to build business overseas as "offshoring of jobs" only, without any regard for expanding U.S. power around the world through business, and regards most of its citizens efforts to establish bank accounts, transact business, etc, only as a way of avoiding their domestic tax responsibilities.

The U.S. would be doing much better if it stopped being such isolationists and started encouraging its own citizens, its own business people to build businesses "overseas".

That's what happens when government agencies get infiltrated with Commie scum and get elected....

.... they begin wiping their arse with the Constitution.

There was a time when chaps like Washington would have marched said scum to the nearest tree.

Sell privately.

Problem solved.

Received my very first silver purchase today courtesy of @BackyardBullion and his forum group orders.

15 lovely 1 ounce 2018 silver Britannias.

First impressions, I am very impressed with the care and consideration taken with how the package has been wrapped. I have to admit I wasn't expecting that level of packaging and only expecting a jiffy envelope. Even down to how the brown tape was applied was done with attention to detail. Inside the tube of Brits were further protected by lashings of bubble wrap and loose fill foam. And sat right on top of everything was @BackyardBullion business card acting as a greeting to the shiny contents hidden below.

Considering it came as part of a massive group order from gs.be, this entire first impression actually made me feel as though I had just received a personally prepared professional order as though it was an individual order.

I have made an unpacking video using my El Cheapo Vodafone smart phone but it was done with one hand so is a bit wobbly. Will upload that asap. In the video I was talking rather quietly due to the adjoining walls with my neighbours being on the slim side. Don't want anyone to overhear me talking about gold or silver.

On to the Brits.

Off the bat, I was quite taken at how heavy the silver tube was containing said coins (a tube I was not expecting!). After opening it up and emptying it's silver contents onto bubble wrap to avoid getting scruff marks on the coins surface from my DIY work bench, I then hesitated in picking them up with my mitts through fear of getting smudge marks on them.

Then I thought "Sod it" and duly picked them up! Having that full weight of those 15 coins pulling down into the palm of your hand is quite an experience, and considering I've never held silver before, it definitely has it's own unique texture and balance. I then held a stack of normal fiat £2 coins in my hand and it just felt "meh".

Even hearing them clinking against each other as I thumbed them over one by one created it's own distinctive sound that I had never heard before. I have worked with many metals over the years - steel/tungsten/ali/iron/zinc etc - and this silver clinking sound was in a world of it's own.

I then set about weighing them with my new 500g 0.01 scales that arrived with the same RM courier. I'm guessing the scales are slightly out of calibration as each coin came back with a reading of 31.34g -/+, with the ozt reading 1.10-/+. Or maybe I need to read the scales instructions to see if they require calibrating first!

Either way, even with the slight over reading on the scales, every coin came back with the same reading. Worst case scenario I can't calibrate them, I can just use the actual reading weight as being true to 1 troy ounce/31.104g and calculate from there.

All in all, I am chuffed with my first silver purchase. More will definitely be following.

Edit: Can't upload pics as......I don't know. Just won't let me. Maybe too large a file at 1.6mb?

Just now, Sovsaver said:

It’s on the obverse, behind Queen’s head, looks like a letter I (or Z maybe). Next the “gratia”.

Seen.

Never noticed at first. Just goes to show how an untrained eye can miss something so obvious.

35 minutes ago, Sovsaver said:

Another from eBay, bought and delivered by a local, had a nice chat and coffee. Cost £125 and the coffee.

I knew about the damage, but was happy to live with it.

 

Where's the damage? Is it the little nicks around the edge (is that the correct term?).