AuricGoldfinger

1 hour ago, Paul said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YjbC5LkjkU

Sorry i cant embed this onto the forum (its been disabled by the original creator), its well worth a click to watch

At first glance, you'd think it was an look around @James32stack but its a actually a look about the vaults & workings of a leading USA bullion dealer SD BULLION

Well worth a watch if you're board this Sunday, there's certainly a good few million squid to view through

B E A utiful.

i wish we didn’t have vat on silver as I would love a stack of 5kg silver bars like in the vid. Just not viable in my opinion in this country 

On 07/09/2022 at 20:14, Shep said:

A quick review of the Royal Mint VIP tour that I attended 07/09/22.

Scores on the doors - 3/5

Consisted of (in order)

- Refreshments and biscuits upon arrival.    
- A 30 min brisk presentation of the Royal Mints history.     
- A visit to the design team and a presentation from one of the designers.   
- Walkthrough / talk through of the die production rooms and processes. 
- Demonstration of die polishing.   
- Strike your own Sovereign in the PM production area (if purchased (£625)).   
- A very decent buffet lunch.    
- Visit to the circulating coin production factory + strike your own 50p (included).  
- End of the guided tour and option to view the regular Royal Mint experience exhibits.      
- Coffee and a slice of cake before you depart.

Pros

A truly great experience to meet the design team who were all incredibly humble.

Good lunch

Opportunity to strike your own Proof Silver Britannia or 2022 Proof Sovereign (at the time of writing).

Friendly tour guide.

 

Cons

A extremely light touch 30 mins talk by a representative of the Royal Mint museum and no opportunity to go into their area and see any numismatic rarity’s not on show to the regular punters - really disappointed with this

Now seeing as the Royal Mint claims the sovereign is their flagship coin, it was again disappointing that on the tour you do not see any precious metal coins being minted other than the one you may or may not elect to buy. I had visions that I would be seeing streams of bullion sovereigns flying out of machines into tubs. I did not see a single gold, silver or platinum coin of any kind being minted (other than my own).

I’ve never really considered myself a hard core collector but The VIP tour felt like it was aimed and pitched at a level for people who like to collect cupronickel 50ps in their change. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, it just left me wanting.

Summary

The tour proved to be acceptable value for money. 

It seems in the past a visit to the Royal Mint Museum was included in the VIP tour, this is an absolute must have and really ought to reintroduced.

Not seeing a single precious metal coin being produced was pretty laughable.

I walked away happy as I have two 2022 proof sovereigns to add to my stack, had I not had these I feel I would have been severely disappointed.

Im hoping to do this soon, waiting for the SYO to be a 2023 sovereign though!

Shares have taken a beat down today so hopefully gold to the mooooon.

One thing i hate about having shares is a 2% move down in a day makes me feel like ive worked all week for free.

Gold - make me feel better please 😁

“Cheap”

Looks like we are going to be going up £1 a day. I’ll take that. 😁

43 minutes ago, vand said:

Both gold and FTSE with a percent or so of their all time highs. Surely nothing to do with ongoing debasement of the currency. 

@vand where the hell have you been!

should have known you’d come out the woodwork once gold was reaching an ATH 😂

hope all is good 👍 

We gotta be touching on £400 a sov soon

Come on baby

1 minute ago, SilverDrum said:

Get yourself a 1/40th tho...if you can see it!

Doesn’t look bad until you realise the card is the size of a micro sim

1 minute ago, Stuntman said:

Yes.  10th March is absolutely outrageous given that they've taken nearly £3k of our money in November.

At least spots up 😃

@dicker that has suprised me. Perhaps we will hover in the £1500 + region for a while.

59 minutes ago, apachebleu said:

 That's fighting talk round some parts...I agree though

I was very careful to include the word “modern” otherwise all hell could break loose!

40 minutes ago, Paul said:

spotted this particular nice image on my internet travels today - looks particularly nice 

the £5 is going to be super lovely - cant wait ! @GoldDiggerDave 

The most beautiful modern sovereign

I think this year will see a new ATH in ££. Personally i think the ATH needs to be broken in $$ for us to really be on our way. Especially with the weaker ££

@Roy I thought it was something like £1570/£1580 but can’t remember why i think that

10 hours ago, Petra said:

Have you been stacking very long?🤔🫢

I bought my first 10 Sovereigns for £222 each in the summer of 2018

3 hours ago, Petra said:

Looking good!😮🫣

It’s getting there…

5 minutes ago, SiCole said:

There email said they would be listing them end of the month. Implies dealers won't have them for a bit.

Excellent. Hope the price dips just as i buy 😂 

Cant wait to pick up some bullion sovs. Do we know a date?

1 hour ago, Mtaybar said:

I've noticed a couple days ago that the 2 quality control stickers I've got in my piedfort box and sotd box are both numbered 101 and both coins are perfect. It took several attempts to get perfect coins on both. Hopefully I get the same QC chap on my next one lol. 

That’s just how many attempts its took to QC

2 minutes ago, James32 said:

It's only over 3% and great overall. 

Absolutely - i just agreed I would meet him in the middle on the premium - everyone wins.

Jokes aside even if gold goes down in the short term i think this year will be a good year, and with inflation alone I don’t want to be holding onto too much cash, i want to put it into liquid assets

2 minutes ago, James32 said:

Including post I hope.

Sort of - it’s a private sale from someone i know - gave them a good deal as they are good to me, still works out cheaper than me buying pretty much anywhere else i can get any at the moment