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Got a nice 2020 double sovereign today from @1stsovereign - very easy to deal with.
 

Got a nice 2020 double sovereign today from @1stsovereign - very easy to deal with.
 

Got a nice 2020 double sovereign today from @1stsovereign - very easy to deal with.
 

Got a nice 2020 double sovereign today from @1stsovereign - very easy to deal with.
 

Got a nice 2020 double sovereign today from @1stsovereign - very easy to deal with.
 

Got a nice 2020 double sovereign today from @1stsovereign - very easy to deal with.
 

Got a nice 2020 double sovereign today from @1stsovereign - very easy to deal with.
 

Got a nice 2020 double sovereign today from @1stsovereign - very easy to deal with.
 

Got a nice 2020 double sovereign today from @1stsovereign - very easy to deal with.
 

Got a nice 2020 double sovereign today from @1stsovereign - very easy to deal with.
 

Got a nice 2020 double sovereign today from @1stsovereign - very easy to deal with.
 

Got a nice 2020 double sovereign today from @1stsovereign - very easy to deal with.
 

Got a nice 2020 double sovereign today from @1stsovereign - very easy to deal with.
 

Got a nice 2020 double sovereign today from @1stsovereign - very easy to deal with.
 

Got a nice 2020 double sovereign today from @1stsovereign - very easy to deal with.
 

Got a nice 2020 double sovereign today from @1stsovereign - very easy to deal with.
 

If you wanted to send £340.53 to a UK dealer at the time i posted the total cost using transferwise.com was 395.38€.

The forum is a good place to buy precious metal. i haven't bought much elsewhere for a long time now. i have spent £10's and £10's of thousands here. If it wasn't a good place that would not have happened.
Prices are higher and premiums higher on the form than they were for quite a long time. That is a fact - i watch the selling section several times a day, nearly everyday, just in case something i like pops up.
Many dealers don't have much available to buy so you are on a waiting list for a lot of stuff. Premiums are higher all over the place. Members are just following the trend. This is the market. Looks at the prices on ebay and all the risks of getting ripped out.

A couple of bars i got today. From the boss @arshimo2012

I was telling my neighbour I couldn't get hold of any chickpeas anywhere. It turns out he works for the local food bank and he said we can't even give them away.
The next day there was 10 tins on my doorstep.
So I will be heading down their with a donation for sure

The so called 'price' is the paper price. The paper price can go anywhere - it is created inside computers - not dug out of a mine and poured in a refinery like real silver is. 
So the paper price falls - supposedly because buyers don't want silver, except in the real world when price takes a dive, real people are all over gold and silver like a bad rash. Physical buying goes up. 
Dealers in the face of increased orders and quite likely stock on their books at a higher price, they don't drop their prices the amount you might expect. Then with this virus thing we have had closures of mines, mints and refineries. This means production all but stops so the dealers run out at the very time demand goes through the roof. This is all a recipe for high premiums and waiting lists - exactly what we have seen.
What i have noticed on the forum and especially in gold, is that when the price of gold went up before the virus thing kicked off, i see the premiums fall - you would see members selling at or just above spot in gold. Premiums in silver were lower and certainly much lower than we see on the forum and at dealers at the moment. From a percentage point of view i would expect gold and silver to be better value the higher the spot prices rise.
Consider this (forgetting taxes) - the amount it costs to design and make dies, to mint coins, to pack and distribute them - it won't be any different between a £2800 2 oz gold coin and the average 2 oz silver Queen's Beast - so as a percentage of the total cost of the coins, the cost of creating a silver coin is much higher - similarly the dealer's mark up will likely be in percentage terms higher. If silver is $16 spot, coin might be $20 ex-VAT (25% above spot), if silver went up to $50 an ounce the ex-VAT might be $55 (10% above spot). If silver went to $500, the ex-VAT might be $510. The higher the price, the lower the premium.

Roy is such a card.

A slight different Thaler for the collection. @ilovesilverireallydo tells me it is was loyalty presentation packs that you get as a free gift from magazine shopping for regular buyers.