Roy

4 Ducat from HGM, xmas gift from the missus.
Not allowed to have it until the 25th. 🤨

Sure, it was your avatar that confused me! 😉
I ask because I'm in my 6th decade of life and I don't know what is around the corner. 
I always read 'for the long term' or 'for my kids' yet it's alien to me. I haven't had that option.
Wait. What? Gold has been available for ever so why are people stacking 'for the long term' now when there wasn't that option before?
It seems that silver and gold have become the greatest asset class available. Well, since 2011 that is.
Don't give your kids gold. They know less what to do with it than you do. Should they leave it to their kids?
Use your gold. Buy bricks and mortar and land when everyone else has to sell. Spend it when it's most wanted.
As for inheritance, don't die a rich man. 😉

I do like these RCM bars.

Thanks @Bdean316 I will take your generous offer and lock in the current spot price £971.42 on the 5th December 2018 at 17.15

I really appreciate you offering me the option to offload my 10 oz of Gold Queens Beast Lion coins at current spot price in the next five years allows me to protect myself against any adverse spot price movements and saves me the hassle of hedging my physical gold position in the futures/options market.
At current spot price the total is £9,714.20 could you please provide proof you have the funds to the pay for the items below?

Joking aside even though I have collected all the QB Gold coins that I am after (10 for each in the series) anyone is nervous and wants to exit their position in Queens Beast's Gold coins drop me a personal PM and I will offer more than dealer rates (established Silver Forum members with lots of feedback normal selling process applies, otherwise we can use @BackyardBullion intermediary services).
 

Confirming posting the Gold Sovereign to @Modem21 by international express shipping...tracking information PM’ed.

Gold rush.
Thank you @Josh for the 2005 Half and thank you to  @mouldybread for the 2017 Sovereign.
The 2005 Set was a gamble, from a well known auction site- 67.98g of 22ct loveliness. 




 
 

1958 Sov
 

Well, you love silver...You really do! 😁

Well, you love silver...You really do! 😁

Well, you love silver...You really do! 😁

Well, you love silver...You really do! 😁

Well, you love silver...You really do! 😁

He made me an offer I couldn’t refuse...

Well, you love silver...You really do! 😁

Well, you love silver...You really do! 😁

1871 PCGS MS63 
first time buying from Drake Sterling 👍
 

@Glorfindel, I'm sorry that you had a bad experience with gold and that you lost part of your 'investment'.
But that is nothing compared to how sorry I am that I wasn't able to pick up 1oz Queen's Beasts or Britannias for less than spot 🙁

Sure, it was your avatar that confused me! 😉
I ask because I'm in my 6th decade of life and I don't know what is around the corner. 
I always read 'for the long term' or 'for my kids' yet it's alien to me. I haven't had that option.
Wait. What? Gold has been available for ever so why are people stacking 'for the long term' now when there wasn't that option before?
It seems that silver and gold have become the greatest asset class available. Well, since 2011 that is.
Don't give your kids gold. They know less what to do with it than you do. Should they leave it to their kids?
Use your gold. Buy bricks and mortar and land when everyone else has to sell. Spend it when it's most wanted.
As for inheritance, don't die a rich man. 😉

I missed this. But just to answer your questions:
- I don’t just collect PM’s - I invest in lots of asset classes and run a couple of businesses outside of my main job.  Almost all of my investments are long term 10+ years  
- For my kids - because I want them to have a better life than I have had with better early opportunities rather than doing it the hard way. My kids can sell PM’s, properties, investments etc that I leave them and chose what they want to do with the money.
- Bricks and mortar are part of any investment strategy but it’s about balance, and PM’s give a little of that.
All the best
dicker

A few comments here are a bit harsh but to be expected. You have been a member of this forum for the best part of 2 years.
In April 2017 you posted asking about which gold coins to buy. You were showered with 2 pages of suggestions. You made good choices in the coins you got if you were looking at 1oz coins. Your intention was to hold them for a number of years. All good so far. You joined a community of gold bugs, you asked for advice, you made good coin choices, you realised gold coins are longer time frame holdings.
You did not post on the forum since then and selling the coins. That does not mean you haven't been reading and learning about gold and silver, a lot of people prefer to watch and read rather than mucking in. However i suspect you haven't been reading much.
You then sold the coins. You didn't ask for the advice of the community but you did come back to tell us you made a £600 loss selling to Atkinson's. You panicked - you say you wanted to get rid of them as quickly as possible.
Members are being unsympathetic b/c to them it is barn door obvious that rather than posting to say you 'got stung' you should have posted asking for advice about selling. You would have had a queue of people wanting to buy those coins. You could have used Backyard Bullion as an intermediary, a new service he is offering. Longstanding members would not diddle you, they have their good name to defend, they are decent honest members of a community. You are in a round about way saying we are untrustworthy. You didn't trust us anyway.
i don't think selling now was the right decision but i might be proven wrong. That is a judgement call that only and time will tell. The issue is you didn't need to lose the £600. You could have come out clean, you might even have made a profit.
It is done now.

I am sorry to hear you had a bad experience with gold and I think you did the right thing by selling them all to a dealer without stressing yourself anymore than this, you weren't having fun with it, it wasn't for you.
But don't expect any sympathy from the members of this forum, because as far as I undesrtand everyone here is obsessed with gold and so upset that all those nice coins ended up with a big dealer, soon the same exact coins will be sold for a lot more than what you got paid for them and we are all going to have lion and griffin nightmares tonight 😆😫
I am new to gold stacking myself but unlike you I'm absolutely loving this journey, since I started buying gold I never thought that I made the wrong decision, I can't wait for the next opportunity to arrive to buy more gold and when I buy a piece of gold I am already having an eye on the next one.
if the time comes when I am desperate for cash then I will have to sell but other than that I don't see any reason to sell my gold or even silver.
economy crash, Brexit, uncertainty , PM price going up and down are not good enough reasons for me to sell, I guess I am just too attached to my gold 😂
I joined the forum before I bought anything and the amazing members of this forum helped me a lot, there are so many intelligent people here who will give you the best advice, you just need to ask, I learn a lot from this forum every single day.
anyways I wish you the best of luck with your next investment and I'm sure you have learnt a thing or two from this experience.

@Glorfindel, I'm sorry that you had a bad experience with gold and that you lost part of your 'investment'.
But that is nothing compared to how sorry I am that I wasn't able to pick up 1oz Queen's Beasts or Britannias for less than spot 🙁

Sure, it was your avatar that confused me! 😉
I ask because I'm in my 6th decade of life and I don't know what is around the corner. 
I always read 'for the long term' or 'for my kids' yet it's alien to me. I haven't had that option.
Wait. What? Gold has been available for ever so why are people stacking 'for the long term' now when there wasn't that option before?
It seems that silver and gold have become the greatest asset class available. Well, since 2011 that is.
Don't give your kids gold. They know less what to do with it than you do. Should they leave it to their kids?
Use your gold. Buy bricks and mortar and land when everyone else has to sell. Spend it when it's most wanted.
As for inheritance, don't die a rich man. 😉

This is all understandable and good practice when dealing with strangers, in particular if we are talking several grand. You are right: you could have lost the whole lot in a scam. In that way you have discovered that there is a safe route out of gold. 
You shouldn't feel bad for not selling here, they just equally feel their own lost opportunity, so don't. 

@Glorfindel, I'm sorry that you had a bad experience with gold and that you lost part of your 'investment'.
But that is nothing compared to how sorry I am that I wasn't able to pick up 1oz Queen's Beasts or Britannias for less than spot 🙁