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Gold and or silver have been the backing of all the global currencies in past times. It gave a lot of stability - remember every fiat in history has blown up, gold currencies have lasted 100's of years. The problem comes when countries decide to go to war. This was the downfall of Sterling and it has been the downfall of the USD. Wars are very very expensive. America was on the top of the world in the 1950's and still would be if it had not got involved in so many stupid wars.

Well i will say you are mistaken. You know about the swastika and Aryan b/c of National Socialism. National Socialism had some interesting ideas but the whole well is poisoned now b/c of the holocaust narrative which we have mentioned on another thread. The swastika is an ancient religious symbol of these people who migrated over large swathes of the world. 'Civilisation started in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley' - i will paraphrase this - agriculture started in these fertile 'grow zones' and with that a civilisation can develop. https://www.britannica.com/topic/swastika - Sanskrit svastika, meaning “conducive to well-being.” It was a favourite symbol on ancient Mesopotamian coinage. Researchers Find the Swastika Predates the Indus Valley Civilization - https://www.indiadivine.org/researchers-find-swastika-predates-indus-valley-civilization/ How did this happen? Like i said these people brought the wheel, the horse and agriculture to the world. With agriculture you can form settlements and develop a civilisation. This is not popular with the establishment - they want you to believe out of Africa and missing links and now Cleopatra was a Black woman.

Well clearly in all the excitement i missed where you posted 200 000 tonnes of gold - apologies. Not sure how having accepted that there is 200 000+ tonnes of gold why you should think that Russia and China having 40 000 tonnes each is not credible. Could it be that the numbers don't all add up? Think - someone is lying about the gold they hold. We know 1000's of tonnes have gone West to East - so who could it be who is lying? i just can't work it out. Did you ever think China doesn't want to be the global reserve? They want the Renminbi more widely used but not global reserve - not everyone wants global reserve unlike the US. Nothing needs to exist to replace the dollar - a global reserve is not necessary - BRICS creates their BRICS currency for trading - it is gold backed. Job done. Gold is the global reserve - the perfect currency. Well it is likely it will be multi-commodity backed but let's say gold for now. The USD ceases to be world reserve b/c the US is over its head with debt and no-one trusts them - if you listen to people like Catherine Austin Fitz, there are over $200 trillion in liabilities - the US is bust. When corporations go bust they go into administration - i note the US has had an administration for years. The US went into administration in 1932 - it went bust. But whatever - BRICS doesn't care - BRICS has real money - what the West does is not of their concern. They can trade using tiddly winks or glass marbles. Chances are a lot of BRICS will default on Western debt - IMF - World Bank. Who gives a damn - we don't care if you put our credit rating to minus a million - we were never going to borrow from that tank of sharks again, so who cares. Oh dear the Western banking system is collapsing, they're refusing to pay. Sounds like when King Edward III defaulted on Venetian debt which collapsed the banks. There is this US centric fixation to global reserve. The US must have global reserve b/c that allows it to live beyond its mean with a limitless credit card. The US economy includes government spending to bolster it. When an iphone is booked through the full value is included when the US did next to nothing in its manufacture. The US economy is a fraction of what is claimed. Keep repeating to yourself the US military is the strongest. Well it has the most poweful navy - this is true but times have changed - a surface fleet is like ducks at the fairground shooting gallery. The Chinese have warned the US if it messes with them, the Pacific fleet will be at the bottom of the sea by day's end. Surface fleets are simply target practice for hypersonics you cannot intercept. You cannot defeat Russia - China combined. You are facing more nuclear power than you can shake a stick at delivered in hypersonics. Putin has said they will use nukes - so don't foook around. An enlarging BRICS and a commodity backed BRICS currency will finished the dollar off. The Global South stops using dollars - they will start returning to base - then we have the difficult to estimate Euro-dollar market which is out of the Fed's reach - $trillions coming back home into the money supply. Will the US troops take dollars? - will they fight for the bankers and empty pockets? No-one is talking about a war other than the neo-cons. China and Russia are about the Belt and Road and expanding BRICS. No-one is bothered about the USD other than those holding them and that won't be BRICS. Who needs them - i predict they'll default on our debts to the banksters anyway. i kind of predicted that response - you'll be calling out Nazi in a minute. I said it as it is and i never mentioned genetics - why did you mention genetics? i could have talked about genetics and the evolution of modern man and that the out of Africa has been proved wrong - but i never mentioned any of that. The Aryans are the people who spread out from central Asia - from the Caucasus region. They carried with them the horse, the wheel and agriculture. They are responsible for the birth of civilisation in what is now Iraq - the fertile crescent as it was then. Someone did it - it couldn't be Mr Nobody. Someone had to invent the wheel - someone had to build seafaring craft - someone built the very similar pyramids around the world - You can track their migrations if you look at the distribution of one of their sacred symbols - the swastika. Some are thousands of years old. You can see some of the places they spread into from the languages. They carried with them the Aryan language which is the root of what in a politically correct world is termed the Indo-European languages. They were the people spreading into Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, central Asia, India and out into what is now China. The Atlantic was crossed many times before Columbus. The ethnic make up of parts of the world were in many respect quite different a few thousand years ago. The Aryans arrived in China before the Han - there are red headed mummies predating the arrival of the Han - White men were first to arrive in China. Buddha has blue eyes in the statues - how does that happen? He was actually caucasian. Genghis Khan was a blue eyed red head - there are such depictions and then the airbrush comes out. Mohammed is described as a White man in the Haddith and there are red hairs claimed to be his in some mosques - the religious texts document it. The DNA of the mummy of Tutankhamun was analysed and has very few similarities to modern day Eyptians - his closest genetic match in the indigenous Englishman. Pharoes were White - there are blond and red headed mummies (ironic considering all the controversy with the recent Cleopatra Netflix production staring a Black Cleopatra - Cleopatra came from what is now Greece). i fully expect you have Aryan lineage - i know i do. The ideas of the National Socialists have been used to twist and close off the truth. As i keep saying almost everything you are told is a lie. There are attempts to airbrush out our history - to appropiate it and if you push back you must be a White Supremacist or a Nazi or something similar. You made the response i expected - effectively calling racist - calling White Supremacist - distorting history, misattributing achievements. i fully expect you believe what you say but they doesn't make it true. People are afraid to speak the truth - why has that situation arisen? If you want to look at this further looking at the work of Robert Sepher is a good place - he has a very interesting youtube channel. He is a Sephardic Jew as best i am aware - and still gets called anti-Semitic. It really is tiresome sometimes.

Are you accusing someone of thinking irrationally? i wasn't quite sure what you meant by 'untapped' gold reserves b/c it meant gold in the ground to me. So i looked it up and it means gold in the ground. What has that got to do with a discussion about above ground gold reserves? They say all the gold that has ever been mined is still held by someone - well that won't quite be true but the vast majority of the gold ever mined will be. There is clearly more than 50 000 tonnes of above ground gold. The amount in the ground will never been definitely known - gold finds are occuring all the time and how much is in the ground hasn't got much to do with above ground gold reserved held by nations. You heard the 40 000 tonne estimate of London Paul - he makes a strong case and gives some evidence based calculations to support his view. Maguire has given a similar estimate - i have heard estimates from 20 000 tonnes upwards. I said i suspected Russia has more - i didn't put a number on it. There is a lot of old gold in Russia from the time of the Tsar who was the richest man on the planet at the time. Russia is a very big country - it mines a lot of gold. Russia has been attacked with dollar sanctions for a long time now - there will be a strong drive to stack gold to the raffters. The US had a lot more than 8 000 tonnes. It had around 25 000 tonnes in 1950. That was 70 years ago - a lot of gold has been mined since. i see here the estimate is there is 208 000 tonnes of above ground gold. https://www.gold.org/goldhub/data/how-much-gold This number will not be accurate - some nations are wildly under reporting - some are wildly over reporting. It is all guesswork. i expect the 208 000 tonnes is a lot more than you expected - and i expect this is short of the real number. What the US claims to have is in reality insignificant - especially as i expect there are just a few bars of gold for show - which might not be genuine anyway. This is Peter Zeihan - you will know what i think - i look at the tie - i think Twat. What is he doing with a Ukraine tie on? What is this virtue signalling Washington lacky up to? i am surprised i don't see pronouns on the Twitter profile. He has no judgement. His opinion becomes worthless to me. He will be paid to spin an anti-China line. He will be a disinfo merchant - an agent for the regime. Absolutely - one of the primary reasons for the Ukraine folly. Collapse the Russian economy - get Putin out - put a puppet in and then asset strip the country. It didn't work and in the process the US has done a massive number on Europe and UK. Yeah you probably are wasting your time - but you post points and it give me an excuse to cover them - someone may benefit from the interaction. i am predicting the collapse of the USD - along with every man and his dog. As Chris Duane likes to point out - it is a mathematical certainty. The collapse of the dollar does not depend on a viable anything. You see this is where you fall down - you are locked into a 1990 mindset - the West is foooked - it is bankrupt and it has exported its industrial base. All it has is pieces of paper and digits on computers - the biggest asset of the West is the people of European decent. They are the people who brought civilisation to the world - right back to the waves of Aryans coming out from the Caucasus mountains with the horse, the wheel and agriculture. Except the people have been ground down by two World Wars and all the propaganda since then. Russia sold off all the US Treasuries a few years ago - it has been sanctioned to the eyeballs so Russia got rid of US assets. The last number i saw this morning for China was on Twitter. - $420 billion in Treasuries. The Fed and the Exchange Stabilisation Fund is buying Treasuries - billions are being dumped into offshore corps in places like the Cayman Islands - it is all to keep up appearances. The Emperor has no clothes but must convince everyone he has a coat of many colours. When the USD collapses - the Western financial system melts down to zero - this will happen - banks and central banks are all linked in a daisychain of liabilities - they would all go down and no-one would want their paper. It will be every man for himself and if you don't have unfettered gold you will be out in the cold. The BRICS countries are about building ties - cooperation - i heard that the gold currency won't be this August - they are pushing hard for trading between each other using their own currencies. This is code for de-dollarisation on steroids - then the head shot will come with the gold currency. It will not matter what the West thinks - the West will have spun out of control and be face down in the gutter. This is the reality of things. The Global South will manage on its own - it has most of the resources and most of the people. i have written enough now except to say i disagree with pretty everything else you have written - it will not be Russia / China pushing for a war - it will be the US - its primary exports are death and debt so it knows no other - the problem with this is the US cannot deal with a united Russia China - it just cannot be done - if it were 1990 yeah it would be possible but the world has changed - unfortunately a lot of people's thinking hasn't. If BRICS want a new currency - they will have a new currency. If it is gold backed then the USD is toast - the market will sort that out in a few sessions. No-one will want Western paper and unless you have gold you are finished - it will be trading using barter. Mad Max rides again. Be prepared.

i know it is just garbage. i recall an interview Keith Neumeyer, CEO of First Magestic Silver did about the Silver Institute annual report. He said he sponsored the Silver Institute but would stop doing so b/c their reports were a nonsense. They make claims about recycled silver and all the silver inventories which are impossible to know - they are just made up. The gold reserves shown are a fiction. Tens of thousands of tonnes of gold have been exported through Swiss refiners to the Global South - it has to come from somewhere. It goes from West to East but the authorities which allegedly track and account for every gram don't seem to be able to show this in their data. The obvious conclusion is they are lying but that is what the authorities do these days as Rome burns.

i listened to the PBD podcast with MacGregor over the weekend. i heard him saying that Ukraine is a basket case and very soon Russia will be over the Dnipro river and then it is cattle country and plain sailing all the way to the Polish border. i heard him saying the US probably won't get to the 2024 election - it is going to collapse before then. i'm not sure what point you are trying to make by bringing him into the mix. Then you put up a chart from wikipedia and go off into hyperbole suggesting i proposed Russia has upto 80 000 tonnes of gold which clearly i never did. Wake up - think - the Western media / official banking sources / governments cannot admit the real situation. Gold will go up to the sky b/c China will be free to set the price once the pretence is over and the dollar is toast. None of those entities, not even China wants that - China is happy to continue sucking out the West's gold until it is all gone. There are several videos out there where the subject of gold holdings are discussed. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+much+gold+does+china+really+have+ Here is one on Arcadia Economics

Absolutely there are demographic problems in China and Russia - like there are demographic problems in Europe which is why governments do not control immigration. The USA and UK only have positive population growth because they are being flooded with 'Somali goatherders' - what future and social cohesion is that going to bring in? - we see Europe bursting into flames at the moment. So China and Russia have issues (but not on the same scale as the West) - also note i write 'There are problems in the Global South but the engines for growth are located there' - i deliberately do not say Russia and China are the beginning end of the Global South. 'Russia's domestic industry is roughly equivalent to an iPhone 2' - there were those who claimed Russia would run out of steam in a few weeks when the Ukraine SMO started. That they would run out of munititions in a few weeks. None of that has happened, there is a constant flow of new kit whilst the West has almost emptied out into the Ukraine. We have seen the hypersonic missiles - the West has nothing to match - the Russian economy is even stronger now that when the SMO started. Europe is going backwards and has been since 2008. If Russian tech is so backwards how have they done this? How do they have the best air defence systems in the world? i saw that China was considering stopping rare earth exports to the US - so the US will have no chips and then will probably have to come begging. China and Russia are firm allies so if Russia needs help from China it's there - if China needs help - it's there. No-one will be asking for help from the West b/c trust has been lost. Russia and China are making friends and investing in the Global South - the West has a history of invasion and creating enemies. The West is making mistake after mistake. We saw Putin was given a Qu'ran the other day and called it a holy book and we should respect each others religions - he immediately made over a billion friends. It is just about using your head - helping each other and moving forwards. The South African prime minister was asked by the BBC if they would arrest Putin as a war criminal at the BRICS conference - the response was something like have you arrested Blair yet? and no we won't be arresting Putin - we know what has happened. "Dare I ask how you know Russia and China have 40,000 tonnes of gold when the world authorities who monitor every gram say it's 4,300 total? Never mind I don't wanna know. " This won't age well - there is a constant flow of gold out of the US and London through Switzerland and out to the East. Most of it has landed in China. People like Maguire have been following these flows for years and i have been following Maguire for more than 10 years. i have heard him estimate China has 40 000 tonnes on its own. China is the biggest gold producer in the world and it all stays in China. i suspect Russia actually has more gold than China. The US cannot admit there is no gold and cannot allow it to be known that China and Russia has much much more than is officially published. Almost everything you hear in the Western media is a lie - i would have thought you have realised that by now.

LOL - the US has no unfettered gold - have you ever thought why it isn't audited? Have you ever thought where all the gold that is recorded going to China comes from? Mnuchin’s joked at Fort Knox saying ‘I assume the gold Is still there’. What you see is probably plated tungsten. Russia and China have over 40 thousand tonnes - easy over that. China is still on the buy - week after week after week. The Global South and particularly China has been sucking all the gold out of the West. Exactly when it will finally run out who knows but i fully expect we are getting near to the bottom of the barrel. Germany still hasn't got all her gold back. All the bars received were new ones - the originals would have long since been sold into the dollar support system. The West has lost all credibility. We see Ursula van der Leyon talking about seizing Russian assets. We see the UK stealing Venezualan gold. We see the US blocking USD transfers to crypto exchanges, we see US regional banks collapsing and on the edge of contageon. This is made the Global South think long and hard about investments and assets in the West - if they will do this to Russia it could be us next. We see Farage have his bank account frozen and banks refusing to deal with him. More and more people are having accounts pulled b/c they are guilty of wrong think. So the West has lost credibility. Future growth in the world will come from the Global South - they know Climate Change is BS - they are pusing ahead as fast as the West is sliding backwards. There are problems in the Global South but the engines for growth are located there and they are sick of 100's of years of colonisation and parasitism.

Well i am neither Republican or Democrat - i am not American and have no dog in that fight. They are all criminals and grifters. Biden is demented and should have been replaced before he even took office. He is not fit for purpose. His VP is also an incompetant. Neither of them are running anything. That is just how it is but that is great for their handlers b/c they are massively compromised and incapable - so the Deep State can do what they like. Trump appears preferable as he is not totally captured and so ends up doing unpredictable and difficult to control things. This is why the Beltway want him in prison or dead or as a minimum out of the way. The controlled media go at him morning, noon and night in an attempt to turn the people but it isn't working - so i expect it will be another rigged election. The US is a laughing stock with a farcical election of a fake president who it is doubtful can even do up his own shoelaces. JFK Jnr would be better than Biden - but i imagine he is captured to some degree or other but must deep down fear assasination. i think he is just using this election platform to talk about his own ideas. The problem with many Americans (and others) is they have recency bias. They think the US will always be on top of the world. Being king of the hill has all been driven by the US dollar. There is this misguided idea that the dollar will always be top dog and everyone will want dollars. The thing is the US has abused the dollar, they have weaponised the dollar - so unsurprisingly those who have been abused are rejecting the dollar. The Exchange Stabilisation Fund and Treasury are doing sommersault trying to keep all the plates spinning. Foreigners don't want Treasuries so the ESF is sucking them up, dumping them in places like the Caymans, pretending everything is alright and issuing dollars from dark pools of money. The liablities are quite likely over $200 trillion - it probably is near to or over the asset value. Those on top forget all empires fall in the end. The USA has the potential to be a great country amongst equal but as it stands it is running on fumes. The US has made so many enemies that when the day of reckoning arrives it will be a very rude awakening. i expect several decades will have to pass before any meaningful recovery is possible. As for Europe and the UK - they are an even worse basket case. The UK is such a basket case now i think there is a case it to go cap in hand and be the 51st state.

Yeah there's a hydrogen powered van. i've seen people do DIY hydrogen setups to save petrol. My issue is they will push and push with this electric business and crash the economy. There isn't the electrical power to drive it - there isn't the charging network - there aren't the raw materials to build replacement vehicles. So we simply have a fraction of the vehicles. So the economy grinds to a halt. That's it - businesses go bust. The country is already bust. The majority of people are flat broke. We are heading backwards at the speed of light. People will not be able to afford electric or hydrogen anything. They might well be struggling to feed themselves it the brakes aren't put on pretty damned quick. It all comes tumbling down. Either those pushing this are living in La La Land or it is a deliberate ploy to take us back into the 1700's. There is so much recency bias - thinking that everything will just carry on and be alright, the government will just chuck out some money and everything will be as usual. It won't be just as usual. No-one owes us a living. The West is rapidly losing its productive base. When other countries refuse to take your currency and you don't make or do anything that useful or unique, it is welcome to the Third World time. This is what a lot of people just don't grasp. The future we are being herded into doesn't work. We have been hijacked by imbeciles or demons or both.

But where does this massive uplift in power come from? The last 4 UK coalfired power stations are being closed down this year. They are backup - so there won't be any backup. Where do all the rare earths and silver come from for these EV's? They don't exist. Electric lorries where are they? They don't work. None of the Green Energy works. The economy is already collapsing and this will guarantee that. So there won't be hydrogen cars - not when you are Third World status with no productive economy. Brown sold off much of the gold - the rest will be 10x rehypothecated - the currency will be worthless. The average Joe will be stuffed. You can only crush the country so many times and then there is no bouncing back.

Yes the article was published in April 2023 - that isn't important and wasn't the point of the post, it could just as easily have been published a year ago. What is important is the Russian embassy tweeted out 'The BRICS countries are planning to introduce a new trading currency, which will be backed by gold'. The BRICS conference in South Africa is in late August. Some people suspect they will annouced a gold backed currency at this conference. They are signalling to the world. China put the idea of a gold backed yuan a few years back - the US said that would be declaration of war. So China was ready then. It also says the US was scared shltless by the prospect of a major gold backed trading currency. It would mean the end of the dollar and all the dollars going back to base (massive inflation). Now we have the prospect of a BRICS+ gold trading (commodity)currency the US is powerless. Sanction until the cows come home - you can't sanction the world and in any case your currency just turned into toilet paper. Pay us in gold or f**** off. The baddest actor on the world stage is the US. It is a nation gone rogue several decades ago. You might ask yourself who will trade with a bankrupt nation with a confetti currency? The West is dying - it has open borders, it has been deindustrialised, all the nations are bankrupt, corruption is at extremes - look at the fake President Brandon and his crime family. All the pillars of state are just as corrupt. The end is neigh for the US (and the West) - those who are awake know it.

Yes Kinesis is on a branch, or whatever varients are called, of the stellar network. Not bad for a 1:1 gold and silver backed coin.

Well i never - would you credit this? i'm sure someone on the forum was talking about this a couple of days ago. Here we have a tweet from the Russian Embassy in Kenya - this will kill the dollar and all Western fiat. Gold on blockchain rails - it doesn't say blockchain but that is what it is going to be. The Kinesis partnership in Indonesia goes nationwide later the month. The KAU will become legal tender.

As i understand it to send and receive BTC the miners need to do the calculations. One time i sent some BTC and it took days - i hadn't paid enough and the price of transfers had jumped up so i went to the back of the queue. i think it cost me $50 even then. This is not practical. Ah but you should have used another crypto which is cheaper and faster - so what is BTC about then? i sometimes wonder what will happen when there is no BTC to mine or the BTC price goes so low and the price of the electricity is too high for mining to be worthwhile. What happens then? Does BTC become something that sits there as an 'investment' and is only occassionally moved as it is too expensive to move. Then one morning the people realise the Emperor is wearing no clothes and BTC goes to zero. Remember the vast majority of BTC is held in a handful of wallets. Those who advocate BTC are not advocating for sound money, they are asking 'Wen da Moon?'

Yes and if you have bought shares in this and that and then put the winnings on the winner at Ascot you would be a millionaire ten times over. BTC is not money. It is a speculation. The very reason you have £120k when 8 years ago you had £1k proves it is not money. We have seen BTC perform violent moves falling £10's of thousands and then rising the same. You cannot do business using something like this as money. It is gambling chips. Those pushing for BTC are really asking 'Wen da Moon?' - they aren't advocating for sound money. Most of the BTC is held in a handful of wallets. If we have a situation where he who holds the BTC makes the rules then control will be in the hands of a very few. BTC could be zero in a heartbeat - the Global South is stacking gold - it is in their blood and it used to be in the blood of the people in the West. Gold and silver on blockchain rails is the way things will be. That may well be confirmed in August. BTC is just a gamble - it is not money.

i heard Maguire say yesterday that the levels of silver in the Shanghai Gold Exchange were the lowest ever. Silver in the West are very low levels - more and more people - proper sane people, not pumpers are talking about the low levels. India and China are syphoning up silver like no tomorrow. Serious tonnage of gold continues to be bought up - the spike down in gold to near $1900 this week triggered very large central bank purchases for delivery. In August BRICS+ will meet in South Africa as more and more of the Global South queues up to join. The internet i look at is full of stories about a new digital gold currency system whilst the BBC asks whether the South Africans intend to arrest Putin as a war criminal 😂. If BRICS+ annouces a new gold currency system - (it may simply be for trading) - it will be a hundred nails in the coffin of the US dollar. All the chart patterns, all the Fed speak, Fed rates, all the smoke and mirrors will be as nothing. Earlier this year the Kenyan leader told his people to dump the dollar. Why did he do that? Does he know something? What the paper Ponzi scheme banks, the youtube pumpers and clueless pundits say will not matter. A few years ago the US threatened China that declaring a gold backed currency system would be an act of war (so China has been ready for years)- the clock has spun round a few times more since then. The world continues to change whilst the US calls trans admirals brave. i do follow the charts to make a bit of alpha if i can but in the end people should prepare and keep stacking whilst all fools blow smoke rings up the Fed's arse. Be ready the Empire is in its last days.

You should reclaim the taxes before you leave Germany. i have never gone through the process but i know for sure there is a Customs Office at Alicante airport where with the right paperwork filled in, you can reclaim the IVA on goods that you are taking out of the EU. https://www.frankfurt-airport.com/en/airport-guide/help-at-the-airport/vat-refunds.html There is VAT on platinum coins in the UK. Some people might pocket the coins and treat them as cash if they were legal tender - especially if UK coinage. You are allowed to bring in up to 10,000€ in cash (includes coins) without declaring it. https://www.gov.uk/bringing-cash-into-uk My issue might be that you are tagged having made a reclaim in Germany and UK customs are expecting you on the other side. Things haven't tended to be that joined up but they might be one day.

Bloody hell man - you must be the oldest member on the forum. Fair play to you for still collecting at over 120 years old.

It is a waste of time reporting these sales - ebay takes no notice. This is why i say, for anyone who is new, just avoid ebay, it is full of scammers.

Well to be fair he does say "Coin found during clear out believed to be 24 gold plated?." Plus it went in at £14.95. Look at the face on this thing - if you took this to be a real coin you need putting down.

Strictly the placing is correct. Tibetan silver isn't silver. They are selling Tibetan silver which is a silver-colored alloy consisting of copper with tin or nickel. Obviously people who do not do their due diligence will buy it thinking it is 999 silver.

This isn't silver - it will be plated. We see AT & S in gothic script - so likely it stands for AT & Son - i don't know who the AT is. Value wise it is worthless from the metal standpoint and whatever you feel a spoon or whatever it is, is worth.