AuricGoldfinger

Nice box. Love a good box lol.

Anyone reached their goal yet?
I submitted my 1911 PF65 from PCGS to NGC trying to get the 66 but it didn't cross.
Don't think I am going to make the 25 sov goal but think 15 is doable. 
 

A recently acquired 1916 Perth Mint Sovereign. Generally problem free and in my opinion, a nice example.
The photos aren’t the best having been taken in fading daylight.
I’ve noticed that 1916 sovereigns are a date that are rarely discussed on the forum and seldom comes up for sale. The 1916 Perth Mint sovereign is rated as scarce by Marsh, despite a healthy mintage of over 4 million, many have no doubt met the melting pot.

FullSizeRender.MOV Notable events of 1916 were:
January 1st 1916 - The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled.
April 1916 - The toggle light switch is invented by William J. Newton and Morris Goldberg.
April 24th-30th 1916 – The Easter Rising occurs in Ireland. Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood proclaim an Irish Republic, and the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army occupy the General Post Office and other buildings in Dublin, before surrendering to the British Army.
July 1st- November 18th 1916 – WWI: Battle of the Somme, opening with explosion of the British Y Sap and Lochnagar mines and the Battle of Albert: More than one million soldiers die, with 57,470 British Empire casualties on the first day, 19,240 of them killed, the British Army's bloodiest day.
July 1st-12th 1916 – Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916: At least one shark attacks 5 swimmers along 80 miles (130 km) of New Jersey coastline, resulting in 4 deaths and the survival of one youth. This event is the inspiration for author Peter Benchley, over half a century later, to write Jaws.
August 27th 1916 – WWI: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on the Central Powers, entering the war on the side of the Allies.
August 28th 1916 - WWI:
Germany declares war on Romania.
Italy declares war on Germany.
September 11th 1916 – A mechanical failure causes the central span of the Quebec Bridge, a cantilever-type structure, to crash into the Saint Lawrence River for the second time, killing 13 workers.
September 13th 1916 – Mary, a circus elephant, is hanged in the town of Erwin, Tennessee, USA for killing her handler, Walter "Red" Eldridge.
November 21st 1916 - WWI: Hospital ship HMHS Britannic, designed as the third Olympic-classocean liner for White Star Line, sinks in the Kea Channel of the Aegean Sea after hitting a mine; 30 lives are lost. At 48,158 gross register tons, she is the largest ship lost during the war. The sister ship of Olympic and Titanic.
December 18th 1916 - WWI: The Battle of Verdunends in France with German troops defeated.
December 31st 1916 – The Hampton Terrace Hotelin North Augusta, South Carolina, one of the largest and most luxurious hotels in the United States at the time, burns to the ground.
(Above information of dates taken from Wikipedia, some details might not be 100% accurate)
However it gives an idea of what was going on at the time. Try it next time you buy a historical coin, you might be surprised what you learn.


 
Then sometime in all of the turmoil of 1916, this sovereign was minted.

Today i visited the safe deposit box. Nice to see them again. Had a little count up as wasn’t 100% on the exact amount of sovereigns.
 
151 sovereigns, 1 half sov and 14 1oz coins. So depending on how many decimals I’m either 2 full sovs or 1 and a half sovs away from my target for the year of 50oz.

Great start to your stacking journey.  Large box to fill 
Welcome to the safe deposit box club 

Finally had to join the Box Club 😏
Feels a bit surreal that I have anything worth putting in one tbh, but I do, so took the plunge...
Here's the majority of the stack (1oz Brit tubes wouldn't 'quite' fit - but the tube of 1/4 oz 2021's did) here's the pic before I tucked them up for the night 😁

So i added the 2 sovs required today. 50ozs!
Gonna try and put the breaks on any more gold purchases for now.

Better late than never, only just had a chance to get everything together. Full gold stack, been exactly 6months, im 2 sovs shy of aprox 30oz which is my short term target. Will continue to pick up the remaining beasts and also some sovs but slowing down a lot unless theres a major dip in prices as have other projects starting soon. 

You take that back,or next stop is you buying bunk beds for me to come and live
By the time mine is delivered, they will likely be free.

Not much of a pic as always feel a bit rushed at the SDB but bit of an update to end the year.

41.6 oz Gold
20 oz Silver
 

There are a few reasons (most of them good):
By the time I get up, have breakfast, play about on TSF, have coffee, try to keep up with world events which may affect precious metals, inflation, and other economics stuff, then go to the office, our order processing teams have picked, checked and packed everything, and may even by heading out of the door.
There are so many orders and packages going out daily, I would not have time to write a personalised message for every one, unless we employed a team of infinite monkeys to do the job.
Have you ever seen my handwriting? I can't decypher most of it, and I doubt if Alan Turing could have made much impact on it.
I'd probably upset and alienate too many customers. On the post above, for example, I would be saying something like "Thanks your your order for 3 x 3 gram gold Pandas, we hope you are pleased with them, but did you know that instead of buying 3 gram / tenth ounce gold coins at x% premium, you could buy at much lower premiums if you saved up and bought 1 x one ounce / 30 gram coin at half the premium? Or how about a brand new 2022 gold Double Sovereign at only 4.5% premium with unbelievable FREE POSTAGE. Why am I telling you this? Because we love you!"
I would run out of ink!
😎

Yeah, we never get a sniff of a message from @LawrenceChard when purchasing..... take note big man!! 😂

Yes you are.

😅
Wifey and kids arrived last week, she teils me the same thing all day long. I tell her to go to the other side of our house to have a better view. 

Today i visited the safe deposit box. Nice to see them again. Had a little count up as wasn’t 100% on the exact amount of sovereigns.
 
151 sovereigns, 1 half sov and 14 1oz coins. So depending on how many decimals I’m either 2 full sovs or 1 and a half sovs away from my target for the year of 50oz.

Visited one of the boxes this week 🤤

So i added the 2 sovs required today. 50ozs!
Gonna try and put the breaks on any more gold purchases for now.

Today i visited the safe deposit box. Nice to see them again. Had a little count up as wasn’t 100% on the exact amount of sovereigns.
 
151 sovereigns, 1 half sov and 14 1oz coins. So depending on how many decimals I’m either 2 full sovs or 1 and a half sovs away from my target for the year of 50oz.

So i added the 2 sovs required today. 50ozs!
Gonna try and put the breaks on any more gold purchases for now.

So i added the 2 sovs required today. 50ozs!
Gonna try and put the breaks on any more gold purchases for now.