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If you're going to get into slabbed coins, buy in bulk!
 

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The United Kingdom joined the EEC in 1973 - everything progressed (regressed) as planned. The vast majority of people just can't see it and just don't get it.

i didn't call the Zimbabwean dollar hero - i said Zimbabwe was the breadbasket of Africa - now people are scratching around and going hungry. 
The breadbasket (hero) has gone to zero (and hence so has its currency).
You just don't get it - we can go back and forth about this all day and each side will dig their trenches a little deeper. i have experienced the economic roller coaster in England. i use history and experience. Time will prove one of us more correct - Deagel.com says they used publicly available documents and make a prediction - not my prediction but before the end of the 2020's England will not be anything like it is today - hope you are alive to see the changes.
 

The older people also remember the times when things became bad and how quickly they can become bad - i remember at college eating the school dinner - the mash potato - our staple food - it tasted bad. There was no salt for the potato, it had run out. Nothing was moving in the country. I remember the power cuts and the 3 day week. The lights would regularly go out at night. Today the country does not generate enough electricity - it is imported from France. We have centuries of coal but that would cause the climate catastrophe. i remember queues at petrol stations - i remember shortages of foods. All these things happened like a light switch. i have lived these things in England, so no-one can tell me it is bonkers. i have had times when i was well off - really well off - even rich - then i have known times when i wouldn't answer the door - when i was in jeopardy of losing everything. These things happened and they can happen more quickly than we realise. The same can happen for nations. The elite intend this to happen - it is agenda 21 - agenda 2030. Agenda 2030 - that is 11 years away - that's when the world will end in climate catastrophe - there is no coincidence in that.

No its isn't an exaggeration - the UK produces half its food - granted some will be exported so it would be higher than 50% if it were all kept in the country but that is a massive food deficit.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/food-statistics-pocketbook-2017/food-statistics-in-your-pocket-2017-global-and-uk-supply
i suppose you are of the Marie Antoinette school of thought - let them eat cake (although she almost certainly didn't say cake) - let them eat potatoes (except with all the spud bashing there wouldn't be enough). The UK is overcrowded. We are not back in wartime Britain when the population was much smaller. My grandad grew his own vegetables, kept chickens - it was usual for someone to keep a pig - this was all commonplace. It is very rare these days - the vast majority do not have a clue - many kids think milk comes from the shop not from cows. 
Come on you do not get magically increases in food production - the farmer plants his potatoes - they take a season to grow - prices shoot up - he cannot magically have planted twice as many spuds. You don't get multi-generational changes reversed in a matter of weeks or even several years. So no the food production of the UK did not shoot up. i grew up in the country - i was surrounded by farmland - i worked on farms. My brother has worked all his life in poultry. You can increase production - they have to import more feed for the poultry - hmmm import more feed - and increase the breeding side - that takes time - then you need more sheds for the birds - so no production cannot be turned up just like that like the volume on an amplifier.
You said "What happened when brexit hit and the pound plummeted so that imports were expensive?" - so you recognise a fall in the relative value of GBP. What is happening in Venezuela following the economic war the US is carrying out? What has happened in other countries - Zimbabwe - the breadbasket of Africa - people scratching around to survive and the currency goes to zero. There are many places in many times places have gone from hero to zero. 
The traitors in the UK have destroyed the industrial base. There is an over reliance of 'service industries'. The value of GBP has fallen like all fiat does - just more than many - we see this in the value of GBP against gold. There has been a campaign of mass immigration to permanently alter the makeup of the country. There are so many more people on the islands. The country is no where near self sufficient in food. Then there is an economic collapse. Then we get deeper into the Grand Solar minimum - which is happening despite kids bunking off school to demonstrate, despite Greta saying we will all perish in an inferno due to man made carbon dioxide. Crop production in many parts of the world has been poor this year. The Chinese have had big problems. Sh1t can happen so much faster than most people imagine.
i didn't write the webpage - i find it alarming and excessive but at the same time i know such changes are quite possible. 

I keep seeing the older generation stating this.  It's just bonkers.
The UK WAS an industrial powerhouse and the economy has switched to service-based.  That's a fact. 
Service jobs are less easy to replace than industrial ones.  How do we know this?  Well, we have already replaced/outsourced most industrial jobs to other countries at a lower price than what this country will work for.  The service jobs (and i'm not talking about call centres) are based more in higher educated areas because thats the requirement.
The idea that service jobs are easily replaceable, whilst at the same time agreeing that the industrial jobs have been replaced / outsourced to other countries is just proving basic economical modals shifts that occur in every country throughout their lifespan. 
Not having industry isn't a negative of a country and that view is mainly only held by people above 60 (i forgot how old i was getting) because when they were younger they knew their country was great whilst they were industrial because at that time, it's what the economy was built on.  In the same way a couple of hundred years before (when the UK was a global empire, actually bigger and better than the 20th century version), the pre-industrial was the greatest and best thing and i'm sure there were many people in their older generation saying it was a shame to move to an industrial economy and lose all of those jobs that were making their country so great!
The country is still great and not industrial, the 2 are not linked is the point.
Stop looking at things only from a point of time that centralises around your era of life, you'll see the world, your country, the economy, pretty much everything in a much clearer way.  Time's change, adapt or be left behind.
 
Now, can we get back to thoughts on the silver price in the UK?

this is an exaggeration of the truth.
the uk produces most(if not all) of the potatoes
that we eat(staple food). what happened when
brexit hit and the pound plummeted so that
imports were expensive? did you not see a
magical increase of 'produced in the uk' foods
turn up on the shelves?
the most important thing is people are flexible.
uk can't grow every type of food but we have
the capacity to grow a lot more of our staple
foods, we simply choose to not do that right
now.
technology, farming methods, efficiency in the
use of resources/time, sharing of data are all
significantly better than they used to be.
 
predicting a collapse in 6 years time is nothing but
excessive scaremongering. 70+ years on, the £ is
still making it's imminent collapse following the
world wars.
 
HH

It's the latter - but 'all based on fact'.  How anyone can factually predict 20 years in th future is beyond me (and literally every economist), let alone the stastical analysis that's been used to create these 'facts'.  Still, this thread is a joyous read, nothing really to do with people's reactions to the changing price of silver (or near future guesses) as it was seemingly set out to be for of course, but joyous to see the imagination that adults still have and use.

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A six ounce silver copy of one of the worlds rarest coins, the 1933 Double Eagle. Only 13 coins in existence and only one in private hands. Fascinating story if you want to look it up. Theft, court cases, a king and the US secret service all involved, amongst others.
Last sold in 2002 for $7.6 million.

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Thanks to @BackyardBullion for creating this Gairsoppa shipwreck recovered silver hand poured bar and round.
The bar is just over 1kg at 1075g
The hammered round is also Gairsoppa silver at 5.05oz and is designed as a tribute to the Bombay Mint stamp on the orignal 1000+ oz bars sunk then recovered.
The wooden box is an ebay cheap one with a 3D printed insert I designed, printed then flocked for a smooth velvet feel.
The QR code takes you to BYB's pouring video on YouTube and it also contains a micro SD card with hi-res images, videos and forum links to the bars creation process for provenance.
 

 

I will stop at 100, I must stop at 100!!! Who am I kidding?

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I think this statement is quite right- everyone is entitled to make their own decisions in terms of pegging their product selling price. 
But, I think people here are disappointed as they feel cheated as he/she wasn’t transparent in terms of this being a commercial venture- and essentially the Forum were taken for a ride in terms of being used as some kind of uninformed focus group. 
For me, I really don’t see much value in the site- I had a quick look at it and it told me what I kind of already knew, give or take a quid or two. 
I think comparison sites are fab for the drudge in life- insurance, life insurance, pet insurance, car insurance....snoooooze, 💤 💤  Boring. 
For me, there’s nothing better than turning up a gem of a coin unexpectedly- much prefer finding stuff in the ‘real world’ - tat and antique shops, coin shops & fairs, antique fairs, auction rooms and from a friend of a friends Aunt....I could go on. 
The internet has already sanitised  all of our lives- a couple of clicks less to buy simply dumbs life down further. 
Just my opinion- the thrill of the chase keeps us on our toes and adds value to our individual collecting stories... any thoughts? 
 

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She’s quite young in that picture.

Lunar Series I finally complete and a 1997 Gold £2 bought from the Collectables category on eBay, using the 10% voucher, so came in 7% under spot. Hoping conservation can do something about the dark spot.