sixgun

You need to be very careful about buying silver since Brexit and the UK being cut off from the low tax silver that used to be so plentiful.
As i am in the EU i can get 2024 Britannias like this - that's £20.87. Granted there is delivery but i get goldsilver.be to keep the silver in the client vault and send it when i have a good lot.

Personally i would not buy from UK dealers unless there was something i really liked in the margin scheme. I do buy silver off TSF. There are good deals to be had. There are good deals b/c i buy some of them - but often you have to be very quick.
If you are 'investing' then you should not be buying silver with VAT on it if you can avoid that and you can. You are investing in silver - not collecting a particular coin you can only find at a dealer's. Buy what you like but get a liking for pieces that represent good value and are easy to sell when the day comes you need to sell. If you don't do that and you have to sell in a hurry you may well come unstuck. However if you have items that were already in the aftermarket and were good value, it means someone else has experienced the potential loss and not you.

i used the phrase 'investing'. Remember you are not an investor, not a trader - you are a hobbyist, a collector. This may be important when it comes to selling b/c you are selling your private property, your chattels. You do not have to face any CGT issues then. Worth searching for chattels on the forum for the discussions. 
Try to avoid ebay - it is full of scam merchants. i try to avoid buying low numbers of coins - the postage per coin is too high. i do look to having the coins sent SD - right now i have a problem with a bar i bought. The Royal Mail had it the parcel had been delivered except the photo of the front door wasn't the right one - it wasn't a door anywhere near the delivery address. It turns out it was a house 1.5 miles away. The post office has apparently said they will get someone to go round to the address (which i do not know the identity of) and get the parcel back. It has all been tracked and it is all insured. Shlt happens sometimes.

You need to be very careful about buying silver since Brexit and the UK being cut off from the low tax silver that used to be so plentiful.
As i am in the EU i can get 2024 Britannias like this - that's £20.87. Granted there is delivery but i get goldsilver.be to keep the silver in the client vault and send it when i have a good lot.

Personally i would not buy from UK dealers unless there was something i really liked in the margin scheme. I do buy silver off TSF. There are good deals to be had. There are good deals b/c i buy some of them - but often you have to be very quick.
If you are 'investing' then you should not be buying silver with VAT on it if you can avoid that and you can. You are investing in silver - not collecting a particular coin you can only find at a dealer's. Buy what you like but get a liking for pieces that represent good value and are easy to sell when the day comes you need to sell. If you don't do that and you have to sell in a hurry you may well come unstuck. However if you have items that were already in the aftermarket and were good value, it means someone else has experienced the potential loss and not you.

i used the phrase 'investing'. Remember you are not an investor, not a trader - you are a hobbyist, a collector. This may be important when it comes to selling b/c you are selling your private property, your chattels. You do not have to face any CGT issues then. Worth searching for chattels on the forum for the discussions. 
Try to avoid ebay - it is full of scam merchants. i try to avoid buying low numbers of coins - the postage per coin is too high. i do look to having the coins sent SD - right now i have a problem with a bar i bought. The Royal Mail had it the parcel had been delivered except the photo of the front door wasn't the right one - it wasn't a door anywhere near the delivery address. It turns out it was a house 1.5 miles away. The post office has apparently said they will get someone to go round to the address (which i do not know the identity of) and get the parcel back. It has all been tracked and it is all insured. Shlt happens sometimes.

i will take the old bar - i have no idea what it is. Probably a short run order from donkey's years ago - I'll probably never know.
Silver is silver at the end of the day.

i will take the old bar - i have no idea what it is. Probably a short run order from donkey's years ago - I'll probably never know.
Silver is silver at the end of the day.

i will take the old bar - i have no idea what it is. Probably a short run order from donkey's years ago - I'll probably never know.
Silver is silver at the end of the day.

If still available i will take it

Yeah - i can see that now.
There are a number of jewellery outfits in the States trading under the name Gold Connection. 
In the 1970's and 80's there were lots of silver bars being made by every Tom, Dlck and Harry. This is a cast bar so this makes it something more serious but it could be something a company had made for them. I have an AEG bar - now AEG never made a silver bar in its existence but someone obviously cast some bars for them. The stamp on your bar has the same open font look about it, where the letter is just outlined rather than the full extent of the letter stamped into the metal.  
So as a bit of a wild guess i would say this is something a precious metal / jewellery outfit had made in the 1980's. A lot of these early bars have been melted down and there are bars that are just unindentifiable so to speak. The people who made them are long gone.
As i say if it cannot be identified then it is just another 1 kg bar. What drives the price of bars is if there is more than one person after them but when it is an unidentified mystery bar there is no collector base. It becomes a total punt for the buyer unless he can ID it. The bar is worth what the next man is prepared to pay.

If still available i will take it

If still available i will take it

If still available i will take it

If still available i will take it

If still available i will take it

If still available i will take it

If still available i will take it

If still available i will take it

Yeah - i can see that now.
There are a number of jewellery outfits in the States trading under the name Gold Connection. 
In the 1970's and 80's there were lots of silver bars being made by every Tom, Dlck and Harry. This is a cast bar so this makes it something more serious but it could be something a company had made for them. I have an AEG bar - now AEG never made a silver bar in its existence but someone obviously cast some bars for them. The stamp on your bar has the same open font look about it, where the letter is just outlined rather than the full extent of the letter stamped into the metal.  
So as a bit of a wild guess i would say this is something a precious metal / jewellery outfit had made in the 1980's. A lot of these early bars have been melted down and there are bars that are just unindentifiable so to speak. The people who made them are long gone.
As i say if it cannot be identified then it is just another 1 kg bar. What drives the price of bars is if there is more than one person after them but when it is an unidentified mystery bar there is no collector base. It becomes a total punt for the buyer unless he can ID it. The bar is worth what the next man is prepared to pay.

Yeah - i can see that now.
There are a number of jewellery outfits in the States trading under the name Gold Connection. 
In the 1970's and 80's there were lots of silver bars being made by every Tom, Dlck and Harry. This is a cast bar so this makes it something more serious but it could be something a company had made for them. I have an AEG bar - now AEG never made a silver bar in its existence but someone obviously cast some bars for them. The stamp on your bar has the same open font look about it, where the letter is just outlined rather than the full extent of the letter stamped into the metal.  
So as a bit of a wild guess i would say this is something a precious metal / jewellery outfit had made in the 1980's. A lot of these early bars have been melted down and there are bars that are just unindentifiable so to speak. The people who made them are long gone.
As i say if it cannot be identified then it is just another 1 kg bar. What drives the price of bars is if there is more than one person after them but when it is an unidentified mystery bar there is no collector base. It becomes a total punt for the buyer unless he can ID it. The bar is worth what the next man is prepared to pay.

If you cannot ID the bar you are dealing with general bullion. That has to be the default position. 

Yeah - i can see that now.
There are a number of jewellery outfits in the States trading under the name Gold Connection. 
In the 1970's and 80's there were lots of silver bars being made by every Tom, Dlck and Harry. This is a cast bar so this makes it something more serious but it could be something a company had made for them. I have an AEG bar - now AEG never made a silver bar in its existence but someone obviously cast some bars for them. The stamp on your bar has the same open font look about it, where the letter is just outlined rather than the full extent of the letter stamped into the metal.  
So as a bit of a wild guess i would say this is something a precious metal / jewellery outfit had made in the 1980's. A lot of these early bars have been melted down and there are bars that are just unindentifiable so to speak. The people who made them are long gone.
As i say if it cannot be identified then it is just another 1 kg bar. What drives the price of bars is if there is more than one person after them but when it is an unidentified mystery bar there is no collector base. It becomes a total punt for the buyer unless he can ID it. The bar is worth what the next man is prepared to pay.

Nope - i don't know what this is.
i am struggling to make out the script above 'Connection'.
Looks like a G and then perhaps an o.....
If it can't be identified then personally i would see it as just another silver 1kg bar.
 

i will take the old bar - i have no idea what it is. Probably a short run order from donkey's years ago - I'll probably never know.
Silver is silver at the end of the day.

i will take the old bar - i have no idea what it is. Probably a short run order from donkey's years ago - I'll probably never know.
Silver is silver at the end of the day.

i will take the old bar - i have no idea what it is. Probably a short run order from donkey's years ago - I'll probably never know.
Silver is silver at the end of the day.

i will take the old bar - i have no idea what it is. Probably a short run order from donkey's years ago - I'll probably never know.
Silver is silver at the end of the day.

Yeah - i can see that now.
There are a number of jewellery outfits in the States trading under the name Gold Connection. 
In the 1970's and 80's there were lots of silver bars being made by every Tom, Dlck and Harry. This is a cast bar so this makes it something more serious but it could be something a company had made for them. I have an AEG bar - now AEG never made a silver bar in its existence but someone obviously cast some bars for them. The stamp on your bar has the same open font look about it, where the letter is just outlined rather than the full extent of the letter stamped into the metal.  
So as a bit of a wild guess i would say this is something a precious metal / jewellery outfit had made in the 1980's. A lot of these early bars have been melted down and there are bars that are just unindentifiable so to speak. The people who made them are long gone.
As i say if it cannot be identified then it is just another 1 kg bar. What drives the price of bars is if there is more than one person after them but when it is an unidentified mystery bar there is no collector base. It becomes a total punt for the buyer unless he can ID it. The bar is worth what the next man is prepared to pay.