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dicker

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dicker last won the day on March 19 2023

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About dicker

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Cambridge
  • Stacker/Collector
    Both

My Precious Metals

  • Metals I am interested in
    Gold
  • I am interested in
    Bullion
    Collectible bullion & Semi Numismatics
    Numismatics (Proof coins)
    High Premium Numismatics & Collectibles (Premium Proof and premium collectible coins)
  • My current Stack/Collection is mainly
    Silver
    Gold
  • What I am collecting / Investing in
    Shield Sovereigns

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  1. dicker

    Slow Atkinsons

    The websites you mention were the first I found many years ago, that contained facts and information that was not and still is not widely available. I remember reading an article “buy round bars” ie coins rather than bars many years ago. Plus the advice to buy bullion at the lowest rate above spot etc. This remains excellent advice. My first ever purchase was from Chards as a result of this. I ignored the advice and bought a 1kg Silver CS bar but followed the advice once I had this as a paperweight!
  2. dicker

    Slow Atkinsons

    It’s a free market. If you don’t like Atkinsons use another dealer. I am sure you read Atkinsons “Terms and Conditions”, before you purchased and will have noted that they don’t store “product” on site, so possibly won’t be as fast as those with on-site vaults. You will have noted in the T’s and C’s that you could collect in person, which would solve your problem. If you are expecting next day delivery when ordering at 23:17 even in quiet times you won’t get it. It’s just not a realistic expectation. Buying bullion is just not the same as ordering a pizza from Domino’s… It is clearly a very busy period at the moment, and I strongly suspect that dealers are simply struggling to ship stock and are not selling stock that they don’t have. I’m not a dealer but it would be dangerous to essentially go nakedly short in this market (enter into a sell agreement when you have to buy the stock in the future with no hedging).
  3. So far I have identified around 50 unrecorded half Sov die numbers. When visually mapped its provides a very interesting picture - particularly when you have wild gaps between half Sov die numbers ever seen. The highest I have recorded is 414 - used in both 1873 and 1876. I use the below type tables to map and analyse - distribution and to get a visual view year by year.
  4. Bargepole. Especially with this type of tripe being advertised on their site. https://www.essentialbullion.com/omega-wealth-network/ The language shouts “scam” at me.
  5. It’s a nice place because TSF folk rightly blame eBay and scumbag sellers and don’t (on the whole) tell people they are stupid. Live and learn!
  6. His taking utter rubbish. As has been explained here lots of times proof relates to the strike. It’s not proof, and it’s has been mis advertised from what you have explained. This is typical of the type of utter scumbag that *often* infests eBay. Mis-advertises, uses weasel words, threatens, gaslights. My advice is simply to explain you disagree and hand the problem to eBay to deal with. There is almost no point in engaging with someone who like this, it’s best left to eBay to resolve. Best Dicker Note: Some genuine decent TSF members sell on eBay and I am specifically NOT criticising them.
  7. It’s almost as though they are not trying that hard to make them look them authentic. They actually didn’t need to. @LawrenceChard Have you seen many half Sov shield counterfeits? I suspect they are somewhat harder to counterfeit.
  8. 2143 I wouldn’t and didn’t think we would see this level this year.
  9. I have interesting tables that I think help visualise the die numbers for Sovs and Halves. I have been building out a better picture of dies on Half Sovereigns for a while. Happy to share the tables and my thoughts if that is of interest? What is clear to me is that big chunks of Sov die numbers although shown in Marsh in italics simply do not exist.
  10. So as far as I know the best explanation is quality control in some form. The Marsh Sovereign die number inventory is messy. I suspect because of a problem with typography translation in a previous edition that has been carried through. The owner of the Bentley Collection extensively searched Sovs with die numbers and date combinations that were not seen by Marsh and largely failed despite private and dealer searches. Hence italicised Sovs in Marsh. Half Sov die numbers are a mess in Marsh.
  11. Die numbers can make a difference. But it’s a complex area.
  12. I’m in: £50 as a prize cash or equivalent nice Silver *And* £50 toward a charity of your choice as long as it is non political and non religious. If you don’t have a preference, I will donate to Save the Children Best Dicker
  13. This may be useful…. Jewellers and insurance values are vastly vastly different from retail prices.
  14. A GIA cert and explanation will add more certainty, but I am afraid all but the very best hold their value.
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