argentmajor

No!
Despite my advice about investing in precious metals: 
Gold should be your first choice, because investment gold is exempt from VAT in the UK (& also EU).
Silver is still in big demand.
For example @ChardsCoinandBullionDealer has a standing request for 30,000 silver Britannias per month from the Royal Mint, although we have only been receiving 10,000.
We did manage a few days ago to buy an extra 20,000 from a fellow distributor / competitor, but these are for offshore storage, which legally avoids VAT for larger investors.
Of course, this still fails to equal the 3.2 tonnes of silver coins we once imported from Perth Mint, back in the days of the Credit / Banking crisis. that was quite a stack, a 7 pallet load on the back of a 7.5 tonne wagon, which  I drove. (From Manchester Airport, not from Western Australia).
😎
 

Thank you for the info.
What about Bruce Springsteen?
😎

Sort of. George Washington was a native Virginian, but born when it was still a British colony. The eighth president, Martin Van Buren, was the first to be born a citizen of the USA.

Sort of. George Washington was a native Virginian, but born when it was still a British colony. The eighth president, Martin Van Buren, was the first to be born a citizen of the USA.

Checklist item #1: New Calendar

"The Shiny Forum"
 

When you guys loose your items I hope I’m the one that finds them. 

Apologies for the down time earlier.

There seemed to be multiple back end issues, which caused some errors on the forum. All of which were not showing error logs, so it was difficult to locate.

The errors included but where not limited to; a backup of the forum upload files which was saved on the same drive had caused that drive to become full and subsequently the forum was inaccessible as it had ran out of space. This is despite the massive storage space that we have. We have now deleted those extra unnecessary files, as we have actual back up files on other hard drives on the sever.

There is currently plenty of space, but we will be upgrading the storage space at some point to prevent any future outage. There may therefore be some downtime sometime in the near future when we upgrade the space on the drives. If you currently use the forum for free, please consider upgrading to Premium Membership as this helps a lot with maintenance costs of the forum. Thank you to those who choose to use TSF as a Premium Member and who help to maintain the forum. 

There is also a caching based issue, which we are working on. So there may be some sporadic downtime later as we are trying to re-enable a different caching method.

Once again, sorry for the downtime earlier and glad that we should now be back up and running as usual  

The chemist should be able to sort you out with some cream for that

Nothing wrong with a bit of PAMPering 😆. First one i have bought in the Lunar series, the 2012 Dragon. I love the design details on all of them. Then a couple more Engelhard 1982 Prospectors - in really nice condition, and a 2011 Panda. 
 
Lindeman.  
 
 

This months haul 
 
thought id mix it up a bit this month 

Not a large amount of silver
but I like them

I had dinner with Mrs Puff actress Mary Jo Catlett. 
But I had no idea who Mrs Puff was - I only new her as Pearl from Diff’rent Stokes. 

Very cheesy, very childish...now altogether...after three 1...2...3...
Are you ready, kids?
I said, are you ready? Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Spongebob Squarepants
Absorbent and yellow and porous is he
Spongebob Squarepants If nautical nonsense be something you wish
Spongebob Squarepants
Then drop on the deck and flop like a fish
Spongebob Squarepants Spongebob Squarepants
Spongebob Squarepants
Spongebob Squarepants
Spongebob Squarepants

A bit cheesy I know
but very , very rare

Thanks @SilverStan for these...
Continuing my trade dollar (St Helena) collection with the Chinese version

Finally completed my set of these Intaglio Greek  coin inspired 2 oz rounds. Thanks to @SilverStan

I found a great deal on the complete set of the US State quarters, the silver proof versions, of course. (50 states plus six territories, not pictured) And the coin capsules and tubes to store them in. Sorry for the horribad pics. I could not get good lighting. 

So I finally bit the bullet and purchased my biggest deal yet
I have to say I am over the moon thank you @StackSellRepeat
you sir are a legend 

2019 Royal Canadian Mint 10 ounce Silver  Orca/Killer Whale

Came across this little dutch minx, just look at those curves 😉 anyone on the forum own any bars from the same firm ?
 
 

1oz Reverse Proof Buffalo thanks @morezone
2002 back from grading thanks @Numistacker 

Arrived this morning, 10x 1oz SilverTowne bars. Thank you @arshimo2012 for another Bargain. 
 

Finally got to the post office this morning to pick up a couple packets  thanks to @Bowieand @ilovesilverireallydo really pleased
2oz libertad, some 1966 100 pesetas and always a favourite of mine some Mercury dimes 

It makes your collection double instantly.