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Wasn't Elizabeth the first virgin sovereign?  
Good start @Dougall1 and the best path to follow 👍

Show me your prized Tristan da Cunha collection Steve 

How can £930 for a sovereign be anything but a scam? 

They are called pensioners.

They are called pensioners.

How can £930 for a sovereign be anything but a scam? 

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For years, I have been searching for the Holy Grail, the I got offered 3 of them in one day! 🙂
I deeply resent that ageist comment.
It's a good job I'm still only 29.

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Nice. Top pop, 1 of 118

I'm a pensioner 😄

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Managed to get everything in one place briefly last week. On the way back to the vaults though I nipped out on the boat and you'll never guess what happened. 

More or less.  Stopped back in 2018 and only continued with the QBs.  Time for me to start building my SIPP and other investments.

Last year I wound everything down with the final purchases of the QBs gold bullions.  Then recently the QB completer came out so had to grab that as well and that should have been the end.  But...there was one coin which I should have picked up years ago but there was always something else to buy so I'd always put it off for another day.  Over the bank holiday weekend I decided to make one final purchase and here it is.  I already have the 2, 2.5, 5, 10 and 20 but just needed this to finish off the set. Unlike it's little brothers which are stored away and haven't been seen for years, this beast is going to be my fondling piece which will sit at my desk.  Hopefully the .900 alloy will hold up well otherwise it'll end up getting a bit dinged and scuffed.

This WEEK I received loads, my postman has been like a fairy tale dwarf miner delivering PM's on a daily basis. A 2oz perth mint dragon with 2 x 1oz tiger and dragon coins.
A 1oz gold 2021 brit
A queens 95th birthday proof silver collaboration of the royal mint and Canadian mint. Bought in a fit of patriotism but disappointingly plain.
And lastly my favourite, a silver roman ring nearly 2000 years old. My imagination runs wild when I hold it, priceless. 

£3 Gold Face Value   Two rather pleasing pieces from @AndrewSL76 at a most amenable price.   My first ever double sov after 38 years.

They are still mainstream, and very useful.
Try buying your groceries with gold, silver, platinum, or a crypto currency. Theoretically it might be possible, but it might not be easy, and your choice might be restricted.
Although, for larger purchases, such as a car, you may not be able to pay in actual cash because of AML rules.
So, there is still use for Fiat Currency:

🙂

I'm glad people are stacking their coins with care!
I too would always prefer people to take resonable care of their coins.
Sure, an RM tube is probably the most efficient gold/sq.in but they rub!
400 ounce good delivery bars, or even kilo bars are more space efficient than coins in RM tubes, but not really as enjoyable unless you have enough of them.
When I see @LawrenceChard shuffling sovereigns in his hand, I cringe!! 
I'm sorry if me shuffling sovereigns makes you cringe. I tend to only do it with circulated coins, and even then I try to minimise the relative movement between them. There is a trade-off between processing efficiency and handling damage.
Sure, they're only bullion and they're not 999 but it seems so wrong....I mean, they're £300 plus.
Yes, I keep forgetting they've gone up from £4
You wouldn't chuck your Snap-On tools in a toolbox, no, you'd put them back on the socket rail they came from!
What's a socket rail? 🙂
On a serious note: I cringe at some of the treatment people give coins:
We quite often get proof sovereigns and proof sets, where the owners have had them all out of the capsules, got fingerprints and scratches on the coins, discarded the RM certificates, and chain-smoked so the boxes reek of smoke, and we have to "quarantine" them until the smell goes.
I remember collecting a large quantity (1000+) of sovereigns from an exclusive London address. The owners had bought them from us some years before, and paid extra for some new minty ones. When we arrived to collect them, we discovered they had let their kids use them as toys, so there were no longer any minty ones.
Another time, a chap bought a lot of modern proof gold from us over a few years, then some years later decided to sell them. He had taken the capsules out of the boxes so they could fit in his safe, but then let his grand-daughter sell many of them on ebay. the boxes he still had stank of tobacco smoke.
On a slight tangent, another thing which we find frustrating is when people bring us quite large "collections" of modern issues they have bought from one or more of the coin marketing companies. Often these are old people, usually not internet-savvy, and they have "invested" for their children, grand-children, etc, but never done any research until too late. It is quite common to hear that people have spent 6 figure amounts of money. One recent example must have cost about £600,000! We ended up paying him about 60% of that, but only because gold prices had gone up since he bought them. If he had bought bullion sovereigns, Britannias, or similar from us, he could have been getting over £1 million for them.
As it happens, there were many interesting coins, mainly because they were "new to us", but many of them are not highly sought after, and it requires considerable marketing effort to find good new homes for them. I suspect many dealers would have just bought them for scrap.
 

I'd be more interested in finding out about inheritance tax and duties.
Sorry for your loss Tom and I don't mean to be negative but I think the US is very thorough concerning 'monies owed'?
I don't know the full story so take this with a pinch of salt 👍

It's been a while, I'm a bit rusty.
From right to left:
Falafel, hummus, baba ghanouj, stuffed grape
Kufta kabab, shish kabab, lamb chops.
Baklava.

Nice!
You can get 20 x coin boxes from coingallery if you wanted a smaller footprint 🙂