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I have contacted Coin Cabinet twice in the past 12 months ish to notify them of errors in their listings of sovereigns. Lots I had no intention of bidding on. 99.9% of their listings are correct of the lots I’ve seen so I do think they are reliable. I received a reply of thanks and whilst my contact with them was to point out an error to help them highlight an oversight. I didn’t need to contact them to point out an error in a listing so why did I? The seller could have possibly been ‘short changed’ on their submission, the business ‘CC’ may also have had an unsatisfied customer and seller. Both times the listing was edited and corrected and I received an email of thanks. Kindness given and gratitude received. It took me minutes to send an email. Just to add I hope the original poster has a satisfied outcome.

That’s the reason why I decided not to buy into this series from the first coin. Although I did try and have tried with the odd one in the series, they just seem impossible to buy from RM.

They sold out by 12:04 😬

Maybe silver will be come the ‘new’ gold. Who knows.

I’d bend over backwards for that amount of gold and so would 99.99999999 (recurring) members of the forum.

Yeah it is but I mean with more and more of us using card payments over cash, especially since Covid.

Did anyone else pick up that he said “the fine gold is mixed with copper” in the video? Interesting to hear as I thought the Gillick sovereigns have a fraction of silver content.

The thing with using a card all the time is that the money is constantly depreciating. If you buy something for £20 and pay cash, that £20 note is still £20. If you paid by card, the shop or ‘seller’ is likely paying something around 2% ish in fees. So if at 2% fees, that £20 you’ve just spent by card has just become £19.96. This is just an example of course. The banks and card payment processing companies are the ones really benefiting.

You must have spent a fortune on taxis and busses. 😆 I was having a conversation with a friend in US a few months ago who couldn’t believe the price of petrol in UK when I told him. He was even more shocked when I said it was per litre and not per gallon. Everything is going up and I can’t see anything coming down any time in the near future.

I’ve read many comments on the forum of someone starting a collection or date run and completing it. Selling them all and starting again. It seems in some circumstances the ‘chase’ is better than reaching the end goal. One quote I read a while ago was “Gold is only a precious metal because you’ve been told it is”. But to lighten the mood my favourite saying, which is an Irish saying is: God is good but never dance in a small boat.

No need to thank me for sharing, I’ve seen the image of the man in the shoes/crocs/what ever the hell are they at least twice this week. This is most likely true. I’m sure if you ask a chef at the end of their shift if they’re hungry they’d say no because they’ve spent all day looking at food. I think the general consensus is you become tired of what you see every day. That could be for any occupation I suppose.

I’ve seen these two images being shared on various online platforms recently and thought the community here might like to see a ‘real’ gold stack. Not to dismiss or belittle anyone’s own stack might I add. But I’m sure you can appreciate the sheer volume of gold here is unbelievable. Bearing in mind that these photos were taken in 1959, some 64 years ago when the gold price was much lower than it is today. Notice the shoes the man is wearing, its not to protect the gold as he stands on it, it’s to protect his feet in case he drops a bar of gold on them!! Imagine having that ‘problem’. Now, what I want to know is, does @LawrenceChard have a snazzy pair of those steel toe cap shoes/crocs? 😆 (I don’t own these images, nor did I take them) Bloody miracle if I did before I was born.

It is amazing how used to something you become. In a few years I doubt we’ll even look twice but seeing your posts really made me pause and look at the coins and observe the unfamiliarity. Firstly to see ‘normal’ photos of Charles III on a coin but also to soak in the magnitude of this monumental change of monarch that most of us have never seen.

They are very good and send your coins in a nice black drawstring bag. They also, dare I say, offer free postage. 😬

That’s an ‘absrbd’ company name.

We all knew who you were referring to anyway. Well I did because I got the email. 😆

That’ can’t be the only thing you’re on if you’re waiting for £750. 😆

I thought this might be of interest to some of you. Do you know who ‘old coppernose’ is? I’ll give you a clue, he was the second Tudor monarch, he had six wives, a chronic jousting injury and by contemporary writings he also had a terrible temper. I’m talking about Henry VIII of course. But why was he called ‘old coppernose’? Well, towards the end of his reign (1544-1551) the country was in the financial terrible. It sounds familiar, I know. Henry VIII’s wars with Scotland and France had cost the King’s coffers a small fortune. During what is known as The Great Debasement, gold coinage was reduced from 23ct to 20ct and silver coinage was reduced from 92.5% (Sterling) to a mere 25%. So why was he known as old coppernose? Well the silver coinage was mostly copper by the end of his reign and as the coins were circulated the high points of the coins, naturally, the obverse and (his nose) wear first. Ultimately giving old Henry VIII a copper nose. It continued into the early reign of his son, Edward VI and it wasn’t until Elizabeth I that it was stopped and a privy mark added to earlier coins. It got so bad that traders in mainland Europe refused English coinage. If any of you want to learn more, the programme Digging For Britain series 1 episode 6 towards the end tells the story better than I ever could.

You are right and in one branch of my family I’ve heard the stories of ‘the family silver’ at the turn of the century (1900). I’d love to see it. It wasn’t passed down my line of the family or if it was I haven’t bloody seen any of it. 😆

I think you might be right. I’ve managed to play about with the image.

Thank you @Roy much appreciated. I owe you and your hamster a beer. 🍺

Hi all, I’m about to be one of those who asks for hallmark identification help. But I’m not here to ask then never be seen again. A relative of mine has a pair of very nice antique candlesticks, I’ve identified the year hallmark ‘e’ as 1900 and the ‘crown’ as (early) Sheffield before the change to the ‘rose’ mark. I should add that some silver hallmark guides online show 1900 and some show 1922 for the same font letter ‘e’. Can anyone help with the makers mark? Happy to be corrected if the above doesn’t match the hallmarks and the photo is a little dark so apologies. Thanks.

Have you ever thought of opening up your Black Museum? Chards, Believe It or Not of Blackpool. A take on Ripley's. 😆

An interesting topic and I’ve seen many sovereigns and half sovereigns go through several coin auctions that Marsh rates (as of the 2021 edition) as R2, R3 and R4. The Marsh guide may well be correct on some, if not the majority of them. Checking other auction past sales usually shows very few sold. So whilst the Marsh guide may not always be right, it isn’t far off from my experience. Many sovereigns unfit for circulation were melted down and many more were sent overseas in early 1930’s and undoubtedly were also melted down. The late 1920’s sovereigns, particularly the Australian mintages (S, M, P Mints) were a notable ‘victim’ of the melting pot in the early 1930’s and that’s why many 1920’s Australian sovereigns of a healthy mintage are now considered rare. However, the above can be applied to any older sovereign and that’s the beauty of older sovereigns. There could have been an original mintage of 1,000,000 or 200,000 but only 40 or 20 may survive today. It’s a case of we’ll never really know.

According to what I’ve just read on Change Checker, the new Charles III 50p is released into circulation today. Apparently they’re available in certain Post Offices from today.