BigDave84

that's why it's better to buy a mixture of bullion and semi-numismatics. keep turning stock over depending on spot price and the value of the semi-nums.

I will be doing the same if the commi party make it in, but I'm only a couple of minutes from the moors and will be hiding it up their in a cashe. Coincidentally I'm originally from Richmond and I used to detect Ham Common, on the back boundary to the park wall. In 9 years I found 2 halfs and 1 full sovereign among other things.

I will be doing the same if the commi party make it in, but I'm only a couple of minutes from the moors and will be hiding it up their in a cashe. Coincidentally I'm originally from Richmond and I used to detect Ham Common, on the back boundary to the park wall. In 9 years I found 2 halfs and 1 full sovereign among other things.

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.

Thought it would be fun to see a selection of proof sovereigns from over the years.
Took 4 as it's difficult to get the lighting even over all of them at once, and somehow managed to get 2 1997s in there Must have thought it was a 1987, eyes getting old