silverdocket

Will do

10 hours ago, Squashie said:

Any for sale? Lol

Not at the moment 😉

11 hours ago, Squashie said:

Well I wish I'd seen this in January! Lol

Definitely a future hit.

I picked up 10 at the time 

No doubt the kilos will follow if they sell well. Still a chunk of monkey for the 10oz.

They all look cool 

4 minutes ago, Spanishsilver said:

It must be in Uk only because in Europe ups is the only courier that has never let me down. 

I'm in Ireland

Ups having a terrible delivery service.

I now collect my stuff from there sorting office.

One less middle middleman and that's usually when it goes missing at that end of the journey.

Welcome Peter from 🍀 Ireland 🍀

On 07/07/2020 at 17:30, SILVERFINGER said:

This arrived today, a 1942 dated, Irish 1/2 Crown, second type, made of .750 silver.
A quite large coin the Irish Half Crown featured an Irish Hunter horse on the reverse, all Irish coins of this period had a national animal on their reverse, a Gaelic Harp featured on the obverse of all coins.
The 1/2 Crown was the highest denomination of coin that Ireland had during the pre decimal period, the first type of coin released was in 1928 and the harp separated the date with the century one side and the year the other, also on the reverse was the words Saorstat Eireann or 'Free State' , in 1939 there was a second type of coin released which had the date all in one area and the words Free State replaced with Eire or Ireland.
The mintage for these coins was very low, that combined with the high silver content meant that not many of these coins have survived in uncirculated condition, silver was used in circulation Irish coins until 1943, though very few were made that last year.
My coin while in mint condition with all its lustre looks to have a slight manufacturing fault, above the horse it looks like a rogue piece of silver got stamped into the coin with some other bits, perhaps this is why its in such good condition, was it put aside as a reject possibly ? it came from London where they were minted by the Royal Mint.
The production figures for the second type 1/2 Crown are as follows, as can be seen, each year production got lower and lower,

1939,   888,000
1940,   752,000
1941,   320,000
1942,   286,000
1943,   1,000

 

Some extra information for you.

36 minutes ago, AndrewSL76 said:

That is very true. you have to also factor in the point that one of the amazing things about this forum are the vast number of amazing bargains etc. You quickly get used to it and when you see the prices elsewhere the wallet becomes harder to open!

I find it amazing that people I would pay a premium to buy from a bullion dealer opposed to the forum in some cases.

1 minute ago, diesel said:

Exact reason I submitted to the CC, some of the coins for sale on CC go for big money, £1400 on an Una is pocket change to some of them. 
 

Whereas in contrast the forum loves a bargain lol 

I think the problem is in our mindset we always have the original cost price in mind.

8 minutes ago, Hotdog said:

I've bought two 2020 sovereigns from different well known UK sources the weights are correct at between 7.99 to 8 grams. The diameters measure satisfactorily at 22mm. The thicknesses around the edges vary slightly between 1.63 and 1.75mm on both coins depending at which position taken. The thickness using a point micrometer in way of the flat surfaces (avoiding the queens head and the horse and dragon) are 1.09mm. The thing that is puzzling me is when I do specific gravity check, both are showing at 16.6. What I read online I should have a higher SG.  Is anybody else finding this on the 2020 sovereigns? The scales that I'm using are accurate to .01 gram. 

I wonder is everybody allowing for wear and tear and damage.

Sometimes I try wearing multiple things together on my scale and I get slightly different results.

For example weigh three sovereigns together and then weigh them separately. 

I have two different scales and each one give me a slightly different result.

13 minutes ago, MrTT said:

Hi all !

New stacker here, started stacking 3 weeks ago.

This is my first order , 110 oz silver kangaroos and 1 oz gold.

Soon i will make another order, need some more treasure

Not far off the ratio lol 😂

58 minutes ago, Jamesd said:

My lovely new bar turned up today from kilonova metals. Really well packaged cool hard plastic certi case, nice chunky 100g of silver. Many thanks. Even the cat liked it😀😂

That's lovely can't wait to see the next one.

5 minutes ago, Maxford said:

Where in Eire are you from? 
 

Code talk lol 😂

3 minutes ago, daca said:

I' m saying this a gold deal thread not the silver deal thread 

Oops I thought I was still on the silver one lol 😂 good man thanks for that.

Just now, daca said:

Gold deal? 🧐

Won't be beaten on price.....

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7 minutes ago, silveralex said:

 

Thanks for the advice! Do you have to be patient and act quickly to take advantage of these better prices on premium or are they quite regular? As a (new) non paying member I generally see prices on trade around £20-£23 which it seems people tend to pay.

You can pick up the Britannia's other generic silver for around £19.

Usually something once a day but you won't get to see it for 3 days if you don't have premium membership and that stage it's gone. Sometimes it's advertised and sold within seconds.

If you're spending over £100 it's well worth the basic membership for a month to see does it work for you.

You won't be waiting weeks/months for your coins unlike Europe. 

5 minutes ago, silveralex said:

I'm new as well but if you do a bit of searching, a lot of the European sites are selling close to £20 (+p&p). Still seems quite high but you've got to start somewhere I suppose!

You'll get better prices on the forum if you're looking for silver.

If you're looking to buy now get a premium membership and keep watching.

I think we'd all do the same if we're selling something.

3 minutes ago, Goldhooked said:

Anyone tried taking them out of the capsule?  2 of mine come out easily but the other 2 are wedged in tight.  No amount of tapping the capsules has made them budge.

Best way to open any capsule in my opinion is with a flat Stanley blade.

Gently working it all the way around till she pops like a Pop-Tart 

Online stock isn't always correctly updated..

I've had this issue before with other mints.. 

They would say only 10 in stock I'd place my order and check back and they would have 100 in stock.

3 hours ago, YELLOWSTUFF said:

Hi folks I ordered two €50 100 Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic gold coins last Monday 8/6/2020 and was quite surprised when I got delivery I hour ago. The booklet enclosed relates to a short history of the Irish struggle for freedom is numbered 4954 which I take there are 506 gold coins remaining.  Hope this will allay any fears one might have. Fabulous coin and presentation think ill order some more. 

I got a few... some are around 4800

And around 5250 

I'd say it's just a case of picking off a pile.