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Calm down lads it's just the £ collapsing.

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Congratulations buddy, and proof that when things are done right and allowing a little time,anything is possible. 

Special thanks to those members who bought: @Silverman2U@SilverTalent@hungrlow@JamesH@elvee426@steve3jant@Johnorob89@darkstar@jamesyh@Byronvan@stackerp5@Domo@katyc@Davros006@Geovest@db570uk@TheLordOfRuin@WILLIG666@bigstudotcom
Extra special thanks to @ChrisSilverfor providing the means to sell my stack - this really is the place to buy and sell precious metals.  
All the online and in-person member interactions I had were positive and rewarding, and you are all a credit to this forum. 
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Must be able to:
proofread know the difference between didactic and pedantic navigate The Silver Forum and be an active member of the Naughty Boys Step

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I just saw this in our Microsoft Teams internal messaging system:
Managing Director   Must be able to grade and price sovereigns not follow processes take items home without telling anyone tell bad jokes tell good jokes, badly Hours of work Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, 4pm-5pm and Friday 4pm-4:30pm.   I someone trying to: a) Get rid of me? b) Tell me something I didn't know? c) Replace me using stealth? d) Something entirely different?   P.S. I don't think it is serious, as the author forgot to include "detect fake sovereigns"! 😎

@CANV

How much are you selling the 2022 bullion sovereign for? 
 
secondly never over reach or have a stack bigger than you can comfortably afford to hold, as it can force you into making the wrong decisions.
Imo full sovereigns bullion and proof are normally the more popular option. 

Watching this travel program, look at the prices in the store.
Good job the prices are not in silver you would need a wheelbarrow full just to buy a few beers.  The welding mask is 8g of gold £376.   
 
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When you have gained a little more experience on TSF, you will find that most of the active members have a sense of humour, even some of the American ones.
Please don't confuse this with ignorance or stupidity. There is much good advice available here, and most of it has not been planted by paid influencers and lobbyists. It is worth listening to and learning from. There are of course, a wide range of differing opinions, which is understandable. Most of the members live in countries which are democracies, and where there is free speech.
There is often much truth wrapped up in humour. you can choose to unwrap it, or throw it away without trying it.
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I may divide opinion posting this, but I think I feel as many others do on this forum, despite the news as of late, that today’s news has been a shock.
This is a huge shock, albeit expected, given HM The Queens ageing years. She’s the only monarch that those under 70 years old has known.
I’ve read some not so many dislikable and distasteful comments on the forum today.
But, I think, no matter what one’s own option is that HM The Queen has given so much to all of us. A duty to the end.
But above all she was a mother, grandmother and a great-grandmother mother.
I’ve looked in and out of the forum this afternoon and this evening. But no matter wether you’re a modern stacker, an old stacker, a collector of Gillick sovereigns or modern releases, be that the Tudor Beast’s or The Monarchs collection with Edward VII resale imminent.
Many people, like myself of this country and also most people of the forum, feel a ‘shift’, a change, has happened today. Within a day a changing of the guard as it were.
HM The Queen’s passing is a great loss to our country of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
I wasn’t sure wether to share this with the the wider forum but I will, as I feel I’m mostly amongst friends, but HM The Queen awarded my grandfather with his MBE some 20 years ago.
It was the happiest day of my grandfathers life.
He said to me “She was gracious, warm, kind and showed an interest in my achievement at the same time.”
We are at the end of an era. Regardless of what we collect or stack, we are at the end of a remarkable era.
I watched the news today, as many others did, the announcement of HM The Queen’s passing and I’m not ashamed to say, I shed a tear when the news was announced.
But, albeit a fictional character, Padding Bear had the right words for HM The Queen’s reign at her Platinum Jubilee in one sentence “Thank you Ma’am, for everything”.
Lastly, I’ll leave this photograph of HM The Queen.
How beautiful she looked. How beautiful she’ll remain.
This is very odd to write on the forum, but here goes.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
 

thailand, cambodia etc dont buy coins or bars except if they are rich - by our standards. normal folk will buy gold chains, rings, earings etc.

I think they're also quite big anywhere with a substantial Muslim population because of the sharia banking and savings practices, so it doesn't come as a surprise that you might see them in the Middle East.

So I'm in Indonesia now and I did a little bit of detective work.
A big part of the reason for gold's popularity lies in the influence of Sharia law on the culture, in particular the proscription on usury. Interest-bearing savings accounts are not strictly allowed per Islamic doctrine and sharia banking is quite the topic in its own right.  Keeping savings as gold is common practice in Islamic circles and is apparently prescribed in the Quran as the officially sanctioned way to do it.  Although Indonesia is fairly liberal by the standards of such things it's still widely practiced here.  Thus, there is a lot of trade in smaller gold bars and, because it takes the place of banking for a lot of people, it is subject to state regulation.
Most jewellery shops and various online outfits buy and sell bullion, and there is a state regulated buy/sell price for retail gold traded domestically.  I'm not sure how often it updates - it might be daily but it seems to be less frequent than that.  The gold also attracts 11% PPN (essentially VAT), although it looks as if there might be some discussion about punting this.
The spreads for small bars are also less than those for (say) 1g bars here, and I suspect the production volumes of small bars are much greater than in a typical Western mint.
The major reputable gold producer is a state owned enterprise called P.T. Antam, which is a mining company that produces refined gold alongside various other products.  They sell a range of retail bars at various sizes as well as industrial and good delivery gold products.  They are viewed in Indonesia as being reputable and carry LBMA accreditation, which means essentially that their published assays are accepted.  Given their role in what is essentially a banking system one suspects there would be a major shitstorm if it was found that they were pushing dodgy gold. 
There is also a state pawn shop (for want of a better word) that will take gold as collateral against loans.  In Jakarta there is a weekly auction of collateral on defaulted loans,  which includes gold bars.  There are probably other auction sites but it looks like there isn't one in the town we're living in.
That appears to be what's going on in the retail gold bullion market here.  It's been an interesting little vignette of a different culture and the role of gold in its society and I think I've got a reasonable insight into how to go about doing the Indonesian side of the family stack now.
 

Effect?
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There are a number of members I will buy from without a thought. Mostly previous private sellers, @Paul for example.
Long term members @arshimo2012 @ilovesilverireallydo @richatthecroft @watchesandwhisky @Tn21
Then there are guys I will one day buy from because they are active members who have a keen interest in the forum, like @James32 and @Leonmarsh.
Guys who have an interest/business they want to protect, like @DuncanWylieWilson and @arphethean.
Don't be scared to deal on the forum, but build a relationship first. I've built some great relationships here.

Effect?
😎

There are a number of members I will buy from without a thought. Mostly previous private sellers, @Paul for example.
Long term members @arshimo2012 @ilovesilverireallydo @richatthecroft @watchesandwhisky @Tn21
Then there are guys I will one day buy from because they are active members who have a keen interest in the forum, like @James32 and @Leonmarsh.
Guys who have an interest/business they want to protect, like @DuncanWylieWilson and @arphethean.
Don't be scared to deal on the forum, but build a relationship first. I've built some great relationships here.

There are a number of members I will buy from without a thought. Mostly previous private sellers, @Paul for example.
Long term members @arshimo2012 @ilovesilverireallydo @richatthecroft @watchesandwhisky @Tn21
Then there are guys I will one day buy from because they are active members who have a keen interest in the forum, like @James32 and @Leonmarsh.
Guys who have an interest/business they want to protect, like @DuncanWylieWilson and @arphethean.
Don't be scared to deal on the forum, but build a relationship first. I've built some great relationships here.

There are a number of members I will buy from without a thought. Mostly previous private sellers, @Paul for example.
Long term members @arshimo2012 @ilovesilverireallydo @richatthecroft @watchesandwhisky @Tn21
Then there are guys I will one day buy from because they are active members who have a keen interest in the forum, like @James32 and @Leonmarsh.
Guys who have an interest/business they want to protect, like @DuncanWylieWilson and @arphethean.
Don't be scared to deal on the forum, but build a relationship first. I've built some great relationships here.