Today I Received.....

[lightjaw]

1/2 Pahlavi coin and a 2003 half sov. Hit 4oz of gold with these. It's not much, but at least it's a buffer should everything go pear shaped. The goal is to have 27oz at retirement..got 20 years to go, should do it.

[MickB]

1/2 Pahlavi coin and a 2003 half sov. Hit 4oz of gold with these. It's not much, but at least it's a buffer should everything go pear shaped. The goal is to have 27oz at retirement..got 20 years to go, should do it.

Good goal to aim for. I'm only at 2 1/4 oz of gold but it's only since joining this forum that I bothered about gold. I did have an original goal of 200 ounces of silver but I'm at 300 ounces now. I've got another 23 years to go before retiring, unless I cash in earlier if the prices go to the moon:-)

[lightjaw]

My goal is to have the equivalent of a half sov to cash in each month for 20 years and a couple of oz of silver a week. If that gives me circa £200 a month that the government doesn't know about then that's fine by me

[morezone]

Bought on the 2nd July and has just come through.  I think it was a 6 week lead time when I ordered and then couple of weeks from USA and customs clearance.

It is a bit of an expensive tool and probably not needed.  As a collector buying all kinds (bars, rounds, coin) from here there and everywhere, I thought I'd get one to try out.  I have a couple of pieces which seem a little iffy although they pass the usual tests so I'll give it a try on those.

[HelpingHands]

If I bought and sold as often as you I would be after one too. Are you going to go for more speculative eBay pieces now or is the return postage not worth it?

[motorbikez]

@morezone Just put it through your business, as a business expense job done

[morezone]

If I bought and sold as often as you I would be after one too. Are you going to go for more speculative eBay pieces now or is the return postage not worth it?

 

There have been so many never heard of bars and rounds which I've never bothered picking up but now I may just chance it.  This gizmo would help make verification easier.  Return postage could be costly if a lot turn out to be fakes but if it's only the odd one or two, it shouldn't be too bad.

 

@morezone Just put it through your business, as a business expense job done

 

Already done It is actually a legitimate expense too 

[motorbikez]

There have been so many never heard of bars and rounds which I've never bothered picking up but now I may just chance it.  This gizmo would help make verification easier.  Return postage could be costly if a lot turn out to be fakes but if it's only the odd one or two, it shouldn't be too bad.

 

 

Already done It is actually a legitimate expense too 

 

LOL this was a legitimate business expense as well, I bought this 18 months before I sold my company comes in very handy for messing about with motorbikes 

[KDave]

Received 3 HGM half sovereigns today. All bullion grade - Victoria veiled head 1897, George V 1911, George V 1914.

 

That makes 6 in total now. I used to think half sovereigns were too small but they have grown on me. The other three I have all Edward VII (1906/7/9) so its nice to get some additional variety to look at! 

[motorbikez]

1/4oz lunar S2 mouse proof & 1/4oz 2006 Britannia proof

 

[Guest]

Meet today's received items post the bank holiday.

3 Sovs from HGM (2 young head and a 1910)

1 $5 1893-s from Ebay (xf45 to Au50)

1 1887 $1 rare $1 only 7500 minted!

[DRooster]

Beautiful.

I actually like the King George the best out of that lot.

[Guest]

Beautiful.

I actually like the King George the best out of that lot.

It's an Edward ))

[silverin]

It's an Edward ))

It's in pretty good nick too by the looks of it

[DRooster]

Oh right. Edward the seventh (it says on the tin), the bloke that looks exactly like that fella off the telly ... Clement Freud.

I guess he's dead too by now.

 

I suppose I should look for 1910 silver coins now ... like it!

[ChrisSilver]

@morezone nice purchase on the Precious Metals Verifier!

[UraaniBarbaari]

1911-C Sovereign

[MickB]

I keep on looking at everyone's pictures of their sovereigns and feel that i should start to get some.

[HelpingHands]

These odds and ends.

[Cointreau]

Numistacker, saw your sovereigns from HGM. Are you telling me that they deliver to the US?

Edited September 8, 2015 by Cointreau

[Guest]

Numistacker, saw your sovereigns from HGM. Are you telling me that they deliver to the US?

No I live in London so they deliver it I pick up.

I also have a vacation home in florida so I am lucky I can have deliveries in either place

[DRooster]

Well I liked that Edward portrait so much

It's an Edward ))

I found a couple of silver coins off that there ebay ;

(I also got some silver Fibula from a northern Italian reconstructor named Stucchi Giuseppe

 

[KevinG]

This evening i've received.

 

1 gram Degussa gold bar

2013 Panda

2015 Noah's ark

Two American silver eagles.

 

[SilvergunSuperman]

Today I received a 10oz silver lunar goat and a gold 20 Swiss Francs coin.

 

I seem to have inadvertently started collecting 20 francs. The nice affordable size is too tempting when I see them at a good price.

[UraaniBarbaari]

20 leva Bulgaria

20 markkaa Finland

Swiss 20 Francs

Full sovereign