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London Paul was saying that Boris had indicated he wanted to drop the value of Sterling by 20% against the EUR and USD to improve the price of British goods. Trump has talked about dropping the value of the USD - so we look like we are going to enter a currency war with everyone racing to zero.

Just received this morning from Chard in Blackpool.. it's a lovely coin, I'm very impressed. I think I'll get all my proof coins from them in the future. Still looks brand new as it did in 2016, flawless and ready to be sent for grading.
 

Arrived today with a gift too- Cheers @Nick1368. I’m sure that Fox will enjoy his treats! 

Bought a rather large stash of unsorted coins. To my surprise this was in there. I have always seen them on eBay and other places, never one in real life. Looks cool. 

The long term decline is about much more than Brexit. I remember the GBP over $2 and over 1.7Eur. 
This is about continual mismanagement of our economy. We are anti-business and anti-entrepreneurial while promoting too much investment in unproductive housing, all of which has made us an expensive, high tax, and unproductive economy. Where are our success stories? The FTSE100 is still dominated by the same tired old firms that were knocking aroun 10-20 years ago. It is not surprise that as other countries overtake us or pull even further ahead their currencies become more highly valued relative to our own

Unfortunately when there are only one or two examples of a coin you are after you have to get it when it appears so the exchange rate is killing me as I pretty much buy all my coins in Europe or the US - haven't bought an 'old' coin from a UK auction in years! At the moment I am concentrating on the minor denominations as they are cheaper (actually much more difficult to find anyway) than the crowns or gold although I am seriously considering having to stop buying things completely due to the exchange rate  Hopefully when Brexit goes through the £ will rise again due to the 'uncertainty' disappearing.

i subscribe to the Sirius Report - London Paul who people may have heard on Rogue Money in the past.
He was saying that the recent 30 year Treasury auction was a disaster. That primary dealers had to take a third of the bond and are already up to their eyeballs with Treasuries as it is. In an attempt to raise liquidity they were selling paper gold - hence some of the recent falls in gold (only to bounce back - not good for the shorts). He said he had also heard rumours of pump and dump antics in the BTC market to raise liquidity. 
This might explain the recent divergence in the gold and silver prices. Gold is a big market to target and raise liquidity - silver is relatively tiny so not such a good market for these USD generative antics. Suggest desperate times if these actors are targeting BTC. 

Always nice to buy from the Forum, better still to trade coins with each other and best of all is doing the above face to face. Nice meeting up with you today@1817SovereignCollector. 
 

This is all about sterling.
$1.24 and 1.11EUR... GBP is a piece of used toilet paper.
I get paid in GBP.. I'm actually furious that pound is my pocket is quickly becoming a worthless piece of bad much more than I am relieved to be holding some non-sterling denominated assets.
 

Satisfying my appetite for Libertads further, and doing my spreadsheet no favours at all, I managed to pick these little beauties up.  
The 1992 & ‘94 sets are toning nicely in true ‘treasure coin’ fashion.
It’s going to be an effort getting off my backside to do any jobs my wife has left me to do this afternoon- even the potential wrath of an angry women might not prevent me squandering the remainder of the afternoon ogling them. 

Alerted that HGM have the 1 oz Gold QB Lion back in stock. Would not call it a deal as such but I setup the alert just in case the put it back into stock by mistake for under £1200....
https://www.hattongardenmetals.com/buy/1oz-gold-queens-lion-coin

Three of my biggest weaknesses all on the same day - gold proof Britannia, silver proof £2 and Norfeds.

They are beautiful

Some very nice thalers and silver cards for me today...
 

This morning I completed my last shift with my current employer, and my last night shift ever!  Start my new job Wednesday.  It was definitely time to move on, my colleagues know me far too well and what I like and bought me some wonderful parting gifts- going to get my nose into those Spink books right away.
 

A lovely 10 Oz hunk of silver from @ATL85 (been eying these up for a while and it's even better in the flesh) and a nice little gold elephant from @morezone.

The 1917 Candian sovereign came back from grading by PCGS. Very happy with the result. 

My stack of Kooks. 1kg & 10oz.


 
 

The full stack since reaching the target of 5oz

Gold
Always believe in your soul
You've got the power to know
You're indestructible!

Stack finally moved to deposit box

I need some more gold I think...and maybe some more diversity🤔

2017: My Indian Precious Metals Stack when I was 20 Years Old. Platinum + Silver + Gold!

 
2018: A year later...

 
My so called "Treasure Chest"  

PS: If anyone's interested in taking a look at them up close then head over to my YouTube channel, goodness in HD  

Updated stack. One 1/10 gold coin is missing. I thought I lost it meanwhile it was stuck to the underside of my sunshine mint bar😋

Not much activity in this thread so thought I'd get things going again. I hope some long time members could post up their stacks as well 🙂
I collect only premiuim/date runs of Silver, and Gold Sovereigns (Proof & bullion).