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Hoping someone will kiss him and then he'll turn into a prince.

Is this a wind up? What genuine dealer would say that? The guy thinks the police are covering ports and airports for less than in a monster box. This isn't real. i mean Stacktastic says That would warrant a national lockdown.

i will have them if they are still around.

I knew all the bank notes belong to the bank. It is illegal to melt down UK coins in the various jurisdications in the UK. Why would that be if it were your property? If you don't pay the road tax they take the car and may crush it. How can they destroy your property if it is yours? Clearly the coins and notes are not ours - we are just using them. Once you register a car you hand over property rights.

i was aware there were restrictions on what gold coins and how many you could own into the 1960's but wasn't aware of this confescation. They kept that one quiet - good find.

Oh no - more tragic boating accidents.

The guy must have been absolutely gutted. i remember there were a few posts about a guy in Hull i think it was, he was blabbing on Facebook about how much precious metal he had. Where he lived was not unknown and a couple of guys came round to pay him a visit. They roughed him up and got the key to his very visible safe and made off with his treasure. So the message is tell no-one you have a stash. If you do have a stash, do not have a very visible safe. That the theives got a king's ransome in gold would guarantee they and others would pay him another visit and another on the off chance they didn't find all the loot or he got some more.

Do you need to wear a support stocking?

Wow that is an admission and a half. Is it just length or girth as well?

Well you aren't paying VAT on your gold as it is. You have a good point. Roy may come back to say the issue was not he had physical issues with storage but it was the insurance. You can hide gold away in wall socket safes, behind a skirting board like i did. Hiding away a few thousand in gold is easy if you are creative. This is the strong point with gold. When you have 100's of kilos of silver this is more difficult but still not impossible if you are creative. I have thought about sending physical to Kinesis - i would get a Holders' yield then but there are fees to send and store - i am not sure how that balances out at the moment. i think it would cost more than the yield. But it does mean you can spend the KAU / KAG's, so your value is not locked up in the metal - but don't go crazy or else you will spend too much, not be able to buy the KAU/ KAG back and then ultimately you will lose your metal.

Quite possibly a lot of packaging. So the solution is to swap out the proof boxes for raw gold, if necessary in a capsule. i once hid several £1000's of gold behind a skirting board.

i have experience of paying off people's debts and lending them money. More often than not i don't see the money again. This pisses me off when i have done them a good turn. If i were to be faced with the same situation again i would want something tangible in return, something of equivalent value. Once the debt is paid off they can have whatever back, if they don't pay back then i'll sell whatever or keep it. If they don't have anything of worth, which is likely, then unless you can deal with not getting your money back then turn your back. Claim poverty. As already mentioned if they ran up the debt in the first place they will do it again - and you won't get your money back.

Really? I asked Chat GPT how much a shoebox of gold would weigh - it said '116 kilograms' If i went to BullionbyPost a 1 kg Metalor bar of gold costs £52,558 - so 116kg x £52,558 = £6,092,728. Tell me again that storage was creating a problem to you. I remember i bought quite a lot of silver from one of the forum members who will remain nameless. He had a problem storing all his silver and was going to switch it into gold. There was quite a lot of silver but this would convert into a pocket full of gold. Now i can see such a situation where you find your silver is too much, especially as in this case his wife didn't know he had any silver and he was keeping it in a friend's safe.

The Fed has $trillions off balance sheet. The Fed and the ESF are buying the bonds - this in itself is QE++. The US went begging to China several times in recent months to buy US bonds and the Chinese said no. If there was actually a strong market in US government bonds they wouldn't have to go cap in hand to the Chinese authorities - literally begging. The market is fake. There are $trillions in debts that need refinancing. It is operation panic stations and the innevitable Fed pivot happened. Demand for actual physical gold and silver is very strong - India and China are syphoning up silver. Falls in price are paper prices. A central bank came into the spot market on 3rd December and the gold price exploded up. If there were plenty of real physical gold available to deliver why did the price shoot up to an all time high in a matter of minutes? The markets are fake and the financial journalists repeat the lies. When Jay Powell came out babbling he was talking about inflation under control, a strong lablour market, a strong US economy, strong GDP. Tame journalists ask tame questions. It is an utter joke. There is no productive US economy, that was boxed up and sent to China years ago. The US consumer is running on debt. Powell said something about the US consumer and that maybe they had got enough stuff - an embarrassed laugh came from the room. Mr Powell should have said the consumer is tapped out and skint and can't afford any stuff. i see Shadow Stats has it that cosumer inflation is 8%. i see videos on Twitter with young US people saying they can't afford to live. Powell is telling lies about a bubble world he inhabits. We had the crew on Bloomberg coming in their pants - rate cuts - more cash in the market - happy days. The prices of zombie companies going higher and higher. The gravy train continues. We are in a recession and have been since 2008. Remember they talked about the recovery - the ongoing recovery. They were talking about that for years. There never was a recovery or else the economy would have recovered. US GDP is mostly made up of government debt spending and someone else's GDP. This is why there are so many people dossing and shíttíng on the streets of every America city. As rates decline there will be cash coming out of the money markets looking for a home. That's about the only sure thing.

There are $trillions off balance sheet. QE started years before they admitted it had and never stopped. No-one is buying Treasuries - so the Fed and ESF do it and stuff the bonds into offshore accounts out of the way.

Well they are now.

i am still shuddering watching some of your videos. Bare hands. Sweet Jesus and the Holy Joseph save us.

QE to infinity and ZERP returns. The industrial base was exported and all that is left is last year's fidget spinners and pavements covered with human faeces. For anyone who can read the room this was coming. There is so much debt it had to come and the Fed claim it's b/c the economy is strong. What a pack of Jokers.

No - i bid £11.

Got a nice little chain care of @Earthmetal

Since 2011, Wall Street Mint has been a sub brand of Scottsdale Mint. Scottsdale bought it out in that year. WSM started after 9/11 and is renowned for skyline bars of NYC. The bin Laden round is a fitting addition to the 9/11 theme.

As far a silver has gone i have only ever bought secondhand silver from Atkinson's. i have managed to get some good deals in the very dim and distant past. Excepting a few specialist buys, these days i only ever buy off the forum or goldsilver.be. On my side of the channel the same coins from goldsilver.be are 103.01 € which is £88.40. - and i voted Brexit.

Some Gary Marks art rounds i got from the US recently. i have got a few others in past years. They just appeal to me. And a proof sovereign care of @AdamDutton

i have bought a few proper pirate coins which will have been pricey per ounce but i don't count them in ounces. i never stress about my coins and bars. i have never sold any, i have no idea what my average price is and i stopped counting how much i have several years ago. No point really when it was all lost in a tragic boating accident.

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