Mox

Ever been in a sticky situation and not known who to call? Well here is the solution, the MOX100, a 100g fine silver bar that will get you help in any emergency, bar number 999.

Made from recycled .999 silver, hallmarked in Birmingham with a CoA and stamped with the Mox Metals makers mark (I is professional you know), all you need to do is have this bar in your pocket at all times and when disaster strikes phone the number on the back of the bar (not including the first 2 digits obviously...).

Auction starts at £1, bidding in whole pounds only please, no messing about with the pennies cos I can't be arsed with it and you will be excluded from participating and, if I can convince him that it has caused me excessive mental harm on a night when I will already have to cope with fighting my way to the bar through vomit, spilt drinks and drunk people who only come out once a year and can't handle their booze, I will be pushing for the maximum penalty, maybe even 5 minutes exile from TSF... (NBS dwellers, you have been warned).

As a bonus this includes FREE 1st Class Signed For postage and will be posted as soon as those nice chaps at Royal Mail get there or I can delay posting until they are a bit more steady on their feet after getting shitfaced all weekend.

Auction ends at midnight on 31st December 2023, its ok, I know you guys have nothing better to do on New Years Eve.

Good luck with the bidding everyone whether you are male, female or have decided you want people to pretend you are a cat/tea spoon/garden gnome etc. There will be no discrimination in my sales threads but I might laugh at you.

(PS. The kitten and puppy are not part of the winnings, pets are not just for Christmas (or New Year) or to be used to flog lumps of shiny metal but @James32 told me you lot would fall for a cute pic and bid a lot higher).

(PPS. Got a bit carried away with the highlighting...)

I have been keeping an eye on this since rumours started circulating. I believe 30 countries in total have signed up to the BRICS lead gold backed currency

The dollar has had its day as the world reserve currency.

Central banks (mainly those in the "Global South") have been boosting their gold reserves for several months but having read opinions from various sources I think possibility of a launch of a new gold backed currency next week is taking things too far, more likely they will announce plans for its introduction at a later date. We will see.

Also of interest is the recent deal between India and the UAE for a million barrels of oil, with payment being made in rupee's, not the first country to have done deals with oil producers in the Middle East. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in July for a new system allowing trade between the two countries using the rupee and dirham.

With the USA increasingly weaponizing financial sanctions and the freezing of bank accounts to punish countries/people they don't like the rest of the world (apart from the West) have taken note and are looking for ways around it.

Due to the world using the dollar they also receive any financial problems occurring in the US, due to the massive dollar printing over the past couple of years inflation has also spread worldwide. And on inflation, how the f*ck could the Fed say inflation was going to be transitory given all the money printing that has gone on (USD M2 $14T in 2019 rising to $21T now, 20% of all the dollars ever created were issued in 2020...).

The interaction/dependence of economics across the world at various levels is fascinating and I would suggest everyone reads more about it, big changes are coming, it all follows a cycle, reserve currencies never survive, currencies never survive, only gold and silver have survived for several thousand years and they will outlast anything put in place that isn't backed by anything physical.

Hopefully a new gold backed currency will allow for real price discovery for precious metals rather than the fix that goes on at the moment, if gold jumps I wouldn't like to be someone holding paper gold, try and redeem your paper for gold that has been sold multiple times over, I'm quite looking forward to the financial chaos, you don't need Fight Club to rebalance the world, just greedy psychopaths who are playing the real version of Risk looking for world domination.

Other factors include China's Belt and Road initiative, the West losing its presence in Africa, fragile supply chains due to globalisation, the ridiculous Climate Change con (I have a degree in Environmental Studies, number one concern should be the use of plastics and forever chemicals), the focus on gender with the rise of the snowflake generation (making the West look weak and we are seeing the recruitment into the armed forces drop, might we see compulsory military service introduced again?) and the lack of statesmen in western politics (watch the way Sergei Lavrov destroys arguments made by the west (or Mohammad Zarif did for Iran until he was replaced a couple of years ago), if you look at it from a neutral standpoint it is no wonder the rest of the world doesn't trust the West.

I am starting to ramble but there is much more to this jigsaw which will reshape global relationships over the next few years and things will get bumpy, when a nation starts to lose global hegemony it tends to lash out and the purveyors of global death and destruction started to flex their muscles against the big players under the Biden administration.

Sorry if this is a bit disjointed but there is lots to consider.

Wasn't sure where to put these. T Heatley, Birmingham 1908

A wedding present for a good friend of mine. Rios Precious Metals used 100g of my recycled fine silver and came up with this, my friend and her husband love it. At the moment it is unique but we are looking at maybe starting a new product, depends on what price it would have to be set at.

The new and improved hallmarking for Mox Metals bars:

2016/17 2oz .999 Cook Islands $2 Gods of Olympus by Perth Mint full set. Four in each box in drawer box with CoA's etc.

Sorry about the pics, rushed as I needed them fast.