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Bought this with a 10% off voucher i had.........My first gold of 2019

A 1894 half sovereign to complete my date run 1890 to 1915 inclusive 😊

A 1894 half sovereign to complete my date run 1890 to 1915 inclusive 😊

A 1894 half sovereign to complete my date run 1890 to 1915 inclusive 😊

A 1894 half sovereign to complete my date run 1890 to 1915 inclusive 😊

A 1894 half sovereign to complete my date run 1890 to 1915 inclusive 😊

Precious metals are a hedge against uncertainty. With the current Brexit situation and the wobble in the stock market, you want to be acquiring precious metals, not selling them. You have a very backwards and upside-down view of the world if you are "spooked out" of a safehaven asset class to jump back into fiat. Sadly, this is how most of the population thinks, and that's why we're heading ever nearer the financial cliff. 

A few comments here are a bit harsh but to be expected. You have been a member of this forum for the best part of 2 years.
In April 2017 you posted asking about which gold coins to buy. You were showered with 2 pages of suggestions. You made good choices in the coins you got if you were looking at 1oz coins. Your intention was to hold them for a number of years. All good so far. You joined a community of gold bugs, you asked for advice, you made good coin choices, you realised gold coins are longer time frame holdings.
You did not post on the forum since then and selling the coins. That does not mean you haven't been reading and learning about gold and silver, a lot of people prefer to watch and read rather than mucking in. However i suspect you haven't been reading much.
You then sold the coins. You didn't ask for the advice of the community but you did come back to tell us you made a £600 loss selling to Atkinson's. You panicked - you say you wanted to get rid of them as quickly as possible.
Members are being unsympathetic b/c to them it is barn door obvious that rather than posting to say you 'got stung' you should have posted asking for advice about selling. You would have had a queue of people wanting to buy those coins. You could have used Backyard Bullion as an intermediary, a new service he is offering. Longstanding members would not diddle you, they have their good name to defend, they are decent honest members of a community. You are in a round about way saying we are untrustworthy. You didn't trust us anyway.
i don't think selling now was the right decision but i might be proven wrong. That is a judgement call that only and time will tell. The issue is you didn't need to lose the £600. You could have come out clean, you might even have made a profit.
It is done now.

Sure, it was your avatar that confused me! 😉
I ask because I'm in my 6th decade of life and I don't know what is around the corner. 
I always read 'for the long term' or 'for my kids' yet it's alien to me. I haven't had that option.
Wait. What? Gold has been available for ever so why are people stacking 'for the long term' now when there wasn't that option before?
It seems that silver and gold have become the greatest asset class available. Well, since 2011 that is.
Don't give your kids gold. They know less what to do with it than you do. Should they leave it to their kids?
Use your gold. Buy bricks and mortar and land when everyone else has to sell. Spend it when it's most wanted.
As for inheritance, don't die a rich man. 😉

I think you done the correct thing because you were invested in something you didnt understand. 
Selling a long term investment on current thinking doesnt make sense to me. If you can be swayed with current world situations it was never a long term investment i dont think.

Just for future reference the issue about Brexit is not about gold it is about Sterling. Gold is not going to go down the plug hole because of Brexit. What the UK does is neither here nor there. The British Empire was thrown away financing WWII when peace was the stroke of a pen away, after that we became a virtual irrelevance. So unless the Bank of England comes clean about stealing all the gold and selling it, the UK's antic aren't going to make a big impact.
If Brexit does not go the way the powers that should not be want it then expect Sterling to be pounded (to use a pun). This is exactly when you want to be in gold. When things look dodgy go to gold.
You should have sold on the forum. The coins would have sold over the weekend especially as it is the end of the month when quite a lot of members are paid. i would say this is THE safest place to sell. If you sell to longstanding members you will get paid. A few months ago i bought a sovereign on the forum. It did not turn up. The member refunded me. Then it turned up and i sent the money back.

Collected my Snowmen 🙂

Not Snowman but proper beef steak 2oz Ox S1 proof , can't ask for more .

Congratulations on coin @JCRJM! The 1989 sovereign is an absolute stunner.
In the meantime I received a coin half the face value but double the weight. 
 

😍😍😍

Just to add ive wanted this coin since I joined the forum and seen @augur old profile picture!
with thanks to @Marc for being a top guy 👍🏻

Two very small Mexican gold coins (2018 1/10 BU Libertads) and for contrast - a stunning 2 ounce silver Mexican mint aztec calendar.  
Then a 1 ounce QB Griffin - in platinum.  Probably not getting all of them in platinum, but this design is very striking in it. 
 

After originally not going to bother with these I can't believe my luck in getting a couple from a post office

Collected my Snowmen 🙂

An 1895 half sovereign for my date run and two full sovereigns 1957 and 1968

Collected my Snowmen 🙂

An 1895 half sovereign for my date run and two full sovereigns 1957 and 1968

I just want give credit to @silversky for all the effort/time/energy/care when sending the following packages arrived today........


I cannot emphasis effort/time/energy/care @silversky put into packaging the items put some of the UK Bullion Dealers to shame. What wonderful items did I receive today?

Added them existing stack 10 oz Silver Coins



Each Royal Mint box contains 25x 10 oz Coins and tube Australia 1 oz Silver Dragon bars. Completed a full set 10x 10 oz Coins Lion/Griffin/Dragon/Unicorn and Valiant.

An 1884 Gold Sovereign...W.W. “buried”. Small B.P....Normal in Marsh, but still a lovely addition.
 

Collected my Snowmen 🙂

Collected my Snowmen 🙂