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I was gifted the first silver proof £1 (1983) coin in 2000.
My first purchase was a Charles II Crown - and i still have it ! 
 

Not something I intended collecting but here I am. 😂

I see colourised coins as a way of enhancing, what is usually, a poor or muddled design. A bit gimmicky.
I have occasionally wondered what would happen to the printed area if the coin was dipped. Would like to see a colourised coin after a few years when natural toning has occurred...
In short; I do not like them !

I was gifted the first silver proof £1 (1983) coin in 2000.
My first purchase was a Charles II Crown - and i still have it ! 
 

I was gifted the first silver proof £1 (1983) coin in 2000.
My first purchase was a Charles II Crown - and i still have it ! 
 

I was gifted the first silver proof £1 (1983) coin in 2000.
My first purchase was a Charles II Crown - and i still have it ! 
 

I like to collect small pieces of jewellery made from silver coins.
I saw this silver Japanese Yen made into a small buckle in town this afternoon. I also picked up the 1584 silver sixpence.
Both for £34.

Depends if you want them and for what reason. If it's to sell on then anything over 8g has to be hallmarked to be sold legally in the UK as silver. What guarantee will you have that they are actually sterling silver ?
(There is a lot of (almost certainly not silver )white metal pendants/chains coming out of China stamped 925 - a quick look on Ebay shows similar items selling at £2-£3)
If they are to be gifts then the actual manufacturing/material cost seems reasonable for bespoke items in such a small amount. Just make sure the recipients are not allergic to any metals typically found in Chinesium*
*Not a real word 
 
 

Depends if you want them and for what reason. If it's to sell on then anything over 8g has to be hallmarked to be sold legally in the UK as silver. What guarantee will you have that they are actually sterling silver ?
(There is a lot of (almost certainly not silver )white metal pendants/chains coming out of China stamped 925 - a quick look on Ebay shows similar items selling at £2-£3)
If they are to be gifts then the actual manufacturing/material cost seems reasonable for bespoke items in such a small amount. Just make sure the recipients are not allergic to any metals typically found in Chinesium*
*Not a real word 
 
 

Depends if you want them and for what reason. If it's to sell on then anything over 8g has to be hallmarked to be sold legally in the UK as silver. What guarantee will you have that they are actually sterling silver ?
(There is a lot of (almost certainly not silver )white metal pendants/chains coming out of China stamped 925 - a quick look on Ebay shows similar items selling at £2-£3)
If they are to be gifts then the actual manufacturing/material cost seems reasonable for bespoke items in such a small amount. Just make sure the recipients are not allergic to any metals typically found in Chinesium*
*Not a real word 
 
 

Very canny - collectors of Roos, Kooks & Koalas will want one (or more) of these for completeness...

Very canny - collectors of Roos, Kooks & Koalas will want one (or more) of these for completeness...

Just some sterling silver (I think) for me today. I like the design on this, now just need to learn to take better pictures.

Whilst recently visiting Blackpool Tower I saw this ‘work of art’ of a model of Blackpool Tower made of silver.
I took some photos to share with you all, imagine, £120 for 700oz of silver.
But then again, it was made in 1898. Just four years after the tower was built in 1894.
Imagine polishing that tower. No pun intended accidentally on purpose.
Aside from it being made of silver, it truly is a work of art.

The mint priced me out when standard BU sets went from £10-£15 a set to £40+ per set. Not a price I'm willing to pay.

Rule #1 of buying silver in the UK - VAT really ganks the value of investment in silver.  Buying and selling through conventional dealers will get you a spread of 30% or more, which makes it not worth doing this way.
But . . .
You can buy and sell on the secondary market at manageable spreads.  If you keep an eye out here and the various other places where folks buy and sell silver, you can buy and sell at a far more sane spread.  The going rate for 1oz coins is somewhere about £23 (give or take - maybe a little more with silver going up), and there are people you can buy from around this price point.  Bars in the 10 oz to 1kg range are also worth buying at the right price. 
You need to understand your exit strategy, which is just a fancy way of saying 'How do I flog my coins?'  With silver, buying and selling to dealers isn't cost effective, so your exit strategy for silver will have to be based off selling back to the secondary market.  Therefore you have to pay attention to liquidity - i.e. what people will buy, and at what price you can make a quick sale.  As a starting point, think of tubes of 1oz coins, and bars in the 10 oz to 1kg range.  Take a look in the UK ungraded section for sales to get a sense of the going rate for these on the open market.
Consider also buying gold in the portfolio, unless you really want to bet on silver going to the moon.  The folks in that video are notorious for circulating clickbait about how silver is about to jump in price, and have been running this schtick for years now.  

I mean, honestly. This is just so bloody bad.
These coins you can literally buy by the kilo. They need 100 for this collection.
They couldn't find a better picture?

Half oz of medieval silver coins
Something a bit different

For me; Trying too hard and not quite getting it... Does it really need a Britannia, a lion, stylised waves and a sailing ship (Golden Hind) ?
The company logo reminds me of something that i can't quite put my finger on ! 
I'd take a few at £60 a pop, free postage 😁

Wow, that's a complex question.... Gold by volume is almost twice as heavy as silver - so, for example a cubic centimetre of silver would weigh 10.49g and the same in gold would weigh 19.32g. That would be for pure silver and gold.
So you would need 78g of pure gold to make up the same volume as 43g of pure silver
Sterling silver is 92.5% pure silver.
9ct gold is 37.5% pure gold - usually alloyed with silver. 
Assuming, in the end product, that 62.5% of it is silver . . . . and that's where i give up.
BUT - gold is heavier than silver so it stands to reason that, regardless of purity, you will need more gold than silver to make an equivalent sized piece. 
 

Wow, that's a complex question.... Gold by volume is almost twice as heavy as silver - so, for example a cubic centimetre of silver would weigh 10.49g and the same in gold would weigh 19.32g. That would be for pure silver and gold.
So you would need 78g of pure gold to make up the same volume as 43g of pure silver
Sterling silver is 92.5% pure silver.
9ct gold is 37.5% pure gold - usually alloyed with silver. 
Assuming, in the end product, that 62.5% of it is silver . . . . and that's where i give up.
BUT - gold is heavier than silver so it stands to reason that, regardless of purity, you will need more gold than silver to make an equivalent sized piece. 
 

Wow, that's a complex question.... Gold by volume is almost twice as heavy as silver - so, for example a cubic centimetre of silver would weigh 10.49g and the same in gold would weigh 19.32g. That would be for pure silver and gold.
So you would need 78g of pure gold to make up the same volume as 43g of pure silver
Sterling silver is 92.5% pure silver.
9ct gold is 37.5% pure gold - usually alloyed with silver. 
Assuming, in the end product, that 62.5% of it is silver . . . . and that's where i give up.
BUT - gold is heavier than silver so it stands to reason that, regardless of purity, you will need more gold than silver to make an equivalent sized piece. 
 

Or, if feeling extravagant - a pack of Stuyvesant to share amongst friends. LOL