dicker

As a team, we often have flat days or months so it’s nice to enjoy March which has been very good.  To celebrate I thought I would post a photo of golden balls on a bull.  Quite appropriate.  
 

Stonking- what a ripper. 

I would be really interested to know how sales are going at dealers - particularly the ratio of people selling versus buying.

Given lower premiums I am guessing sales at these prices have slowed - but that’s just a guess.

Does anyone have any thoughts / info on this?

Is silver going to snap higher and follow gold?  I don’t know…. Thoughts?

I didn’t see 1750 coming….

On 26/03/2024 at 00:01, Skyfiller said:

Bought a fake 1887 half sovereign last week from a friendly jeweller. Only realised it was when I got round to looking at it yesterday and it weighed in at 3.501g. Bloody good detail for a fake, even had a bit of lustre! Took it back today and it tested in at 14k. He felt awful about selling it to me and swapped it out for an 1843 so not all bad 🙂

That’s dreadful even for a jeweller 

20 hours ago, Ashtonian said:

Sorry for not posting sooner. What you have  is a normal legend 1872 half sovereign with a die number of 103, this means the nose of Victoria points to letter O in Victoria and the reverse has 147 denticles which was the norm from 1872 to 1880. There also exists a quite different 1872  half sovereign with the repositioned legend which also bears the same die number 103 but comes from completely different dies,  this has an obverse where the nose of Victoria points to T,  and a reverse that has far fewer denticles 122. One of the RL coins was recently sold at Canterbury Auction Galleries. but yours is the first NL coin I have seen so far with the 103. With the 105 die number, again there are two versions of the same coin, RL and NL versions. which use the same die number but are come from different dies. 

The Royal Mint report for 1872 shows that 402 reverse dies where used, as of today I have only recorded approximately just over half  this number.

Ashtonian 

You know your onions.  Bravo.

3 hours ago, Aldebaran said:

I don’t know, but this seller has sold quite a few recently, including a half for a very good price.

14 hours ago, Spyder said:

Here is another listing that makes no sense to me. Nothing special about the coin

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326062816815

Agreed.  8.1g - his scales must be off.  

US numbers out later….core personal consumption data. Not sure what time tho…

Middle Eastern and may be slightly higher purity than 22ct

Lacking imagination…
 

Could be made outside of the U.K.   good chance it is 9ct.

If you are selling it might be best to “free” the Sovs and sell them and the chain separately. 
 

Best

Dicker

3 minutes ago, Gruff said:

Due to Central Banksters keeping interest rates on hold?

Largely yes, plus I suspect a bit profit talking and it’s coming up to month end, where people might chose to trade out and lock in profits.  

Cost price averaging….

I have had some innovative SD packaging from TSF members.

Recently I received some Sovs that were wrapped in a DVD box.

I saw a post earlier that “analysts are puzzled” by golds price rise and strength.

They really must be complete spunktrumpets (is that allowed?) to be puzzled.  

Back to 1725ish

I saw that there continues to be big outflows of money from BTC ETF’s.  Is that money going into gold?

Who knows but £1725 there is a good chance. 

I suspect there are a fair few traders out there sitting on some nasty losses having bet on gold going down after the FOMC guidance….oh well!

I don’t have a view of volumes traded but low volumes may be playing a part in the price?