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Stuntman

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  1. A while ago, I planned to sell some of my gold ETF holdings if the spot price was above £1750.  Then some more if it reached £1825 and more again at £1900.

    Today I executed the first part of the plan!

    First time I have ever sold any gold, physical or virtual.  Reinvested about 60% of the money in shares, left the rest in cash.

    I am pleased, but feel a little conflicted.  I'm still going to buy some more physical this year.

  2. 1 hour ago, Wilburwombat said:

    I'm beginning to wonder about the Tudor Beasts series. 6 releases in proof and only 4 thus far in bullion. Wonder if they'll go the proof only route moving forward?

    I've been waiting for the Tudor Dragon coin to come out in bullion so that I could buy it at the same time as another coin that I want to add to my collection (and the rising price of gold hasn't helped...) so I'd be mighty annoyed if the RM cancelled this series in bullion too.  They'd be absolutely mad to do that, it would destroy any remaining trust that they have.

  3. Always good to be reminded of the history behind these.  Thanks for sharing.

    The Elephant and Castle mark also appears on a few silver coins: 1681 shillings and halfcrowns I think.  These are pretty rare, and sought after by some collectors.  The Elephant on its own appears on some silver shillings and halfcrowns dated 1666.

    There are lots of variants to collect in Charles II silver for those with deep pockets!

  4. Am taking this thread as an excuse to post up a picture of my 10 oz silver (plus kilo QB completer) as food for thought.  

    Personally, my two favourites are the 10 oz QB completer and the 10 oz 2018 Valiant with its incuse design, but I love all these pieces of silver.

    I prefer the dimensions of the 10 oz coins over the kilo coin.  The kilo coin is fantastic, but it's more of a cylinder than a coin.

    Food for thought for the OP perhaps 🙂

     

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  5. In my opinion, it's only worth spending extra for the Una bar if you actually like the design.  I doubt whether it would retain its premium when and if you come to sell.  If you collect Kookaburras, that would seem the obvious choice.
    I like 10oz silver coins and bars, but choose them very sparingly.  For me, I prefer the older version of the 10oz Britannia coin (without the security features) but the current one is nice as well.  Regarding the Una bar, I prefer the earlier version and won't be adding this one to my collection.

    If it was my own money and my own collection, out of the three choices I'd go Britannia - but that's because I don't collect Kooks and don't wish to start!

  6. Doesn't look quite as bad in gold, in the pic above.  Might reconsider my initial dislike once the bullion coins get released.

    Am glad I'm not collecting the full series, though.  Every Tudor Beasts release just makes the Queen's Beasts look even better 🙂

  7. Despite the shortcomings of pretty much all of the Tudor Beast designs (in my opinion of course), I really didn't think they could make a complete mess of a dragon design.

    I was wrong 😃

    I have bought the Lion, which is not great but not completely terrible, and not the others so far.  Was hoping to collect both Lions and both Dragons, but it's unlikely now!

    Bah humbug.

  8. Late to the party here, but I agree that these would be a very tough set to resell.  I suspect anyone in the market for a 1937 set would not want to compromise on quality this much, without paying a rock bottom price.  And many of these people probably wouldn't go for this particular set anyway.

    Definitely one to avoid unless you can pick it up for not much over spot.  But I'd still avoid unless you wanted to keep it.

  9. I am biased in the sense that I own the old one, but I almost certainly won't be buying the new one because I think the old one is really nice and these new ones are a little less special.  But if I didn't have the old one and wanted to collect this new series of bars, there's probably lots to like.

    However, I think it's one to enjoy for the pleasure of ownership, rather than to make profits over and above any changes in the spot price.  Basically I don't think they will have much of a premium and it will be a limited resale market.

  10. I'm probably in for this one assuming the design isn't totally hideous.  My plan for the Tudor Beast series is only to collect both Lions and both Dragons, and maybe the Completer if they make one.  

    To be fair, I don't think they can mess the Lions and Dragons up too much, given how the designs for the series have been so far.

  11. The forthcoming 1 oz Una and the Lion gold bars might be right up your alley if you're looking for some diversification to your gold stack.

    Although as others have said, keeping adding items to your 1 oz UK gold coin stack/collection will avoid any potential CGT angle when you come to sell.

    Do you have the 1 oz gold coronation bar that the RM released last year?  If not, that might be another contender.

  12. I'd say it's VF at best, and ex-jewellery.  So it probably won't appeal to the numismatic collector very much.  Still a lovely lump of historical gold, but hard to see much of a premium over spot for it.

  13. I think it's probably the matte finish version of the 1902 quintuple.  I think there was a non-matte currency (bullion) version and also this matte version, which (again I think) was described as proof.

    You can certainly get non-proof matte finish coins; the modern quintuple from 2019 onwards also comes as a matte finish brilliant uncirculated coin, not a proof.

    The currency version of the 1902 seems to command a higher value than the matte.

    A lot of the 1902 matte proof silver coins were 'wiped' at the Royal Mint and this may have been what happened to your coin here.  So it might not have been cleaned post-mint, the 'cleaning' may have occurred at the RM.

    Looks a nice coin in the second set of photos.  Definitely would be one to evaluate in-hand if I was thinking of buying (which I'm not).

    Good luck with the sale.  

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