Roy

It's impossible to get a fair trade with silver and gold because of the premium and VAT, I mean nobody buys silver premium and vat free do they? 😉

@NGMD, great result with these coins! All popular year/designs 👍

Yup, been doing so for yonks 👍

@Richard82, having slept on this, I'm respectfully withdrawing my offer to trade. It's grossly unfair to you and my reputation would suffer if I'm seen to take advantage of a new member so early in his forum experience. All is not lost. I suggest you sell one of your coins for its market value and buy my coins with the proceeds, again at market value. This way, you'll be quids in and your first transactions will be happy ones. Roy

Or, as Andrew Cooper, the Tory candidate in last week’s Tamworth by election, put it: jobless parents who are struggling to feed their children while paying for a phone should “f*ck off”. Hear, hear.

Good, then it's a win-win. WE'll exchange details tomorrow by PM. Richard, I will have to ask you to send first because of your lack of feedback, ok?

I'm willing to do a deal but let's sleep on it. I'll trade for the 2023 Britannia.

Can I see the Britannia and the Beast please?

Yes, but please understand this is heavily in my favour. Can you provide pics please?

I have all of those years for you. Check back next week 👍

Tricky one, this. It's a special reverse, graded MS67 DPL, whatever that means? Somewhere between BU and proof? I don't know. NGC list 11 at this grade and 13 in higher grades. Bullion mintage is 750,000. Unsolicited comments welcome if you can supply source 👍

1868 Sovereign Young head, shield reverse. 155 years old! Mintage: 1,653,384 £415 plus post. Bank transfer, UK only

1885 Sydney Gold Sovereign graded AU53 Young head, George reverse, mintage 1,486,000 Bank transfer please, UK only. £415 plus post.

Special reverse year, cartoon George Bank transfer please

Special reverse year Bank transfer please

Low mintage on these Bank transfer please

Wee Panda in slab £200 posted SD, UK only Bank transfer please

It's just an initial shock, you soon get over it. 'For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction'...some will baulk, some will carry on regardless. I remember promising that I'd stop driving when petrol got to £2 a gallon. Drinking when beer hit £2 a pint. Yet.....😇 Things will change, more people drink at home now than frequent pubs, people care more about MPG than MPH. In less developed countries, gold is still as prized as ever but folk just buy what they can afford. Personally, I hit my target in 2020 and now I'm just buying things I like and items to complete collections, but still balancing my total by moving on odds and sods. I was buying @ £700-750 an ounce so the temptation to draw profit is too strong and I've sold some things I may regret but hey ho. I've always been a fan of stacking fractional gold and that will certainly continue.

I'm sure this is correct, I mean, it must be right? The cost of living is indeed in crisis mode. But, have you tried to book a Christmas Package this year (Hotel, Lunch, Dinner etc.?) My usual haunts are sold out this year, at nearly £500 per head 😮

You'll do 👍

If someone like @BackyardBullion wants to be a 'central planner', I have a 1982. Edit: I trust most people, just BYB was my first and obvious choice 😊

And here we are! Real money can be bought with BTC without a huge premium. Hat and chips for lunch 😋

Well, it's Veracity's thread, but I'll take you up if they're not interested 😛

0.028 btc?

@ArgentSmith, do you have an idea/solution to reduce said premiums? I'd like to see it proven that BTC can be used to purchase 'money', without a huge loss. 😇🤔