Roy

Lovely coins and I hate you 
But I take comfort from the fact that YES, you will now start a collection and your nights will never be the same again.
Tell your missus to prepare and freeze your meals because you are now busy.
Cancel the Netflix subscription, you will never watch it again.
Get a beer fridge. It takes 11 and a half seconds to go in the kitchen and get a bottle, I know I've timed it. You will miss a deal in those precious moments.
Teach your dog how to refresh the page.
 
Doomed I tell thee 
ps. these are low mintage. PM me if you need the numbers. 

21 hours! From purchasing these yesterday to receiving them at at my door. Incredible. Very happy with the price, LOVE the coins, over the moon with the service.
@arshimo2012 You rock! Thank you very much, kind Sir.
Heads up for everyone, Ash is now using time shift/travel delivery. He informed me that he would be sending on Monday and they arrived today, two days before posting. This must surely be some new upper tier Special Delivery service RM are offering? 
So much to consider while I look lustily at these two beauties. Now I have two have I started a collection? Should I send these for grading and a little clean up? Will I buy a 1/10 platinum Brit from the group order to keep them company?
Video incoming, proper camera being dug out....

Kinesis is an Isle of Man corporation. Profits made outside the IoM are tax free. The advantage for an investor in KVT's like me is that when profits are distributed there is more for investors.
A person holding KVT's could setup a corporation in a country which does not tax income coming from outside that country. They could make the KVT's an asset of the corporation. The KVT's no longer belong to them so the yield is then tax free.
Now the issue is getting the cash out of the corporation. If you are tax resident in the UK, then HMRC will want a cut of your dividends from the corporation. There are potential avenues to get use of capital, Emmerdale cast had their Jersey corporations make them loans but the easiest way is not to be tax resident in the UK. If you were tax resident in a country where income from outside that country is tax free, then you can pull off the cash out and keep it all. You can come visit the UK but make sure you do not fall foul of the tax resident rules. Someone looking to create a pension pot could do this and then leave the UK and become tax resident elsewhere where they keep all this treasure.

Whisky... gin... rum... wine or ale 

1890 Half sov of the no JEB variety.
For the short Jubilee Head London Mint date run.
 

A nice 1/10th oz 2003 proof Britannia received today. Purchased this one from an Australian bullion dealer. 

I bet he was bullied at school 

I bet he was bullied at school 

I bet he was bullied at school 

Bought a 1902 half sov today, aEF. Managed to negotiate a few quid off.
Just need 1904 now to complete the Edward date run.
 
 

The '68 would complement the collection.
'Hey, '67...nice lustre! '
Now, that's a compliment. 

The '68 would complement the collection.
'Hey, '67...nice lustre! '
Now, that's a compliment. 

The '68 would complement the collection.
'Hey, '67...nice lustre! '
Now, that's a compliment. 

Small change and very uninteresting to mostly everyone here, but today I received the 1st silver I have ever held and the 1st 5oz of my stack!! [emoji3][emoji3]

Received an Isle of Man 1980 one pound 22ct proof yesterday  
https://colnect.com/en/coins/coin/80486-1_Pound_Triskele_Over_Map_-_Gold-I60_-_One_Sovereign_1_Pound_Bullion_Coinage-Isle_of_Man
at bullion price paid last week @arshimo2012. Had a helluva job cracking it out of its plastic covering without damaging it. There was some very heavy bond/glue to undo (see pics with flecks of material on outside and  pics once removed). Right at the end, I managed to fingerprint it but was planning to send it off to ncs for conservation anyway.
I could find only one graded on either ngc or pcgs and that was a pr67 on pcgs https://www.pcgs.com/pop/pcgsnolookup.aspx?s=520796....and will be taking it to my lcs tomorrow to see if it can beat that and then the 2-3 month wait begins.....
I had a choice of a couple of coins but went for the one most people wouldn’t have probably. I like British coins and the bullion price with a young queen’s head on it from the Pobjoy Mint that has lost the contract now makes this one a getting rarer and rarer addition (it is already almost 40 years old).....and in “sovereign” 22ct gold with a one pound designation. The Triskelion over the map is a striking design and I did go to The Isle of Man back in the early 90s to watch Norton win the TT for the first time in decades !
https://www.iomtt.com/TT-Database/Events.aspx?meet_code=TT92 &era=
 
What a tremendous climax to TT week 1992 when the A McAlpine (IoM) Senior TT provided a race-long battle between Steve Hislop on the Norton - The White Charger - and Carl Fogarty on the Loctite Yamaha. They swapped the lead practically every lap - and finished up setting a course record lap and the fastest ever speed between them.
At the end of the first lap Carl led Steve by 1.2 seconds with Robert Dunlop (Norton) just 3.4 seconds down in third place - and all three had lapped at over 121mph. 
At the end of the second circuit Steve led Carl by 2.8 seconds with Robert some 15 seconds down in third place. By half distance the lead had changed again - Carl had a one second advantage over Steve with Robert still in third place.
Lap four saw Hislop back in front by 7.4 seconds. For the first time in the race the lead did not change at the end of the fifth and penultimate lap - and the gap between first and a second was now 5.4 seconds, with Robert Dunlop still holding on to third, brother Joey having retired on the previous lap.
And so to the final lap - Fogarty set a new absolute lap record in 18 minutes 18.8 seconds equal to 123.61mph. Hislop was just a second slower, and also inside the old record, and took victory by 4.4 seconds to give Norton their first Senior TT win since 1961.
It was a hell of a two weeks and I rode round the TT course on “Mad Sunday” when there are no speed restrictions whatsoever.
 
Indeed , our bike gang jackets had the Treskelion design with “Mad Bastards” written underneath it and the “59” black and white patch on the shoulder (British bikers will get the significance of that one).
 






 

Hello everybody,
I just wanto to point to your attention, that this is one of the very few threads worldwide about Kinesis.
Plus, thanks to sixgun's lenghty and keep-it-simple explanations, it is AFAIK the best one.
This is the best source of information for Kinesis newbies worldwide. You don't need to believe me. Try to google around and you'll see
You are very lucky having sixgun here and you should be very thankful to him for the time and efforts he is spending here for us on this issue
I was interested in Kinesis some time ago. After long searching I landed on thesilverforum thanks to his posts
There is a kinesis community on telegram, created 3 weeks ago, but the comments over there are not very helpful for people (me) who haven't yet understood kinesis
Thanks sixgun

well if you mean me.....
It's not something I've looked at closely. I hope it works.
It smacks too much like alternative investment schemes for me, I'm too old for gambling on such things; been stung and done very well out of schemes in the past but no more.
I didn't gamble on cryptos and probably missed out on large profits with bitcoin but I don't mind.
I'm not bothered about the alleged convenience of a gold-backed currency but I'm happy to ride it's success if it works and forces a re-set in PM prices, which will suit me quite nicely as I have lots

Here it is next to a 1900. Definately a brighter shade, at least it was cheap
 

A 1989 Proof half sovereign

Good idea getting your parents into gold as a retirement plan. My dad hasn't got much in the way of a retirement fund and he's been retired 5 years now. Yesterday I gave him a full sovereign and told him to cash it in whenever he feels like it. His first ever gold coin so he doesn't want to part with it but it's there if he needs it.

I have gone through the process to create a single token as a punt, but was put off at the last by the need to agree to potential complete loss if the project fails, which is the case with most crypto ICO's as I am aware. I seem to remember that an earlier token that was shut down for one reason or another? If this is going to be as powerful as I think it is, certain groups will not take it sitting down, but then perhaps the right money is involved this time.
The upside for physical if it works is enough for me to just hold physical metal and cut out the risk (and potentially huge reward) of holding the tokens. I will come back once it has launched and reassess, perhaps then convert metal into tokens if the possibility remains. Last year I would have been all over this, but right now, I have far too many DIY projects that need to be paid for 
At the very least we are seeing an attempt at an actual use for a monetary blockchain as opposed to ledgers of nothing being pushed via a thousand different copies. This or something like it will compete in the same space with what are effectively fiat crypto currencies and people will start to figure out what their preferred tokens have missing - the same thing the dollar and the rest of the fiat currencies have been missing since the 1970's - something of tangible value.  

Picked up a 2002 half Sovereign on eBay. There was only one photo and no really good look at the coin’s surfaces.
I got lucky, probably will get it graded.
 

 
 

Just got back from a tattooing session, all done now.

Waiting for me whilst passing work were these 2. Thanks Numi

Won my first auction Saturday, 1892 Jubilee Head Half and currently offering on a 1890 no JEB
Too new, Jubilee and older please.