My first piece of gold, full sovereign

[Peacemaker]

Finally got round to moving a bit of the silver stack for some gold, Aftee discovering hidden postage costs from ATS Bullion ive ended up with this lustreous 1974 full sov from Atkinsons Bullion mixed date range, got to be at least a 60, thought id get a scratched up one judging from the stock pics they use, my camera isnt really doing it any justice, sony m4 aqua for you! 

[Pete]

No longer a gold virgin eh !
I would remove the coin from the plastic flip and then take a picture.

[Peacemaker]

8 minutes ago, Pete said:

No longer a gold virgin eh !
I would remove the coin from the plastic flip and then take a picture.

nope, popped the gold cherry!

My camera is awful, cant seem to focus, have to wait for the wife to get home with her phone

Im gona sell another chunk of silver to get one more, one just isnt enough, then try and restrict myself to one a month, its gona be hard though haha

[Goldmick]

You will be hooked lol

[Micky9776]

Congrats and nice first gold piece  you can't go wrong with getting a sovereign, all you need now is one of each monarch 

[kimchi]

Congrats, looks very nice! You are a wise one, there is no such thing as a single Sov, just your first, second third etc

I'm a newbie but may I recommend a 2017 as a lovely, special year?

Also the carded India mint ones if you can get one

 

[Xander]

You won't regret buying sovereigns, probably regret not doing it sooner.

[Peacemaker]

49 minutes ago, Xander said:

You won't regret buying sovereigns, probably regret not doing it sooner.

I really dont know why i didnt get any sooner, been stacking silver casually just over a year now, maybe the price put me off as a beginner

[boon]

Very nice indeed sir- I got my first this month also! So welcome from a fellow newbie!

Do you have an idea which way your going to go, IE different monarchs, perhaps a date run from your first one etc etc?

[BigDave84]

Once you pop, you can't stop. I've been buying 3 a month for 9 years. 

[Peacemaker]

3 hours ago, boon said:

Very nice indeed sir- I got my first this month also! So welcome from a fellow newbie!

Do you have an idea which way your going to go, IE different monarchs, perhaps a date run from your first one etc etc?

Im going to stick Atkinsons mixed dates for the best value, my aim atm is jist to get as many i can 

[Peacemaker]

1 hour ago, BigDave84 said:

Once you pop, you can't stop. I've been buying 3 a month for 9 years. 

Nice! Be interesting to hear of price you paid back then to now

[boon]

6 minutes ago, DaveWheat89 said:

Im going to stick Atkinsons mixed dates for the best value, my aim atm is jist to get as many i can 

Makes good sense  stack em high!

I only have a few so plan to do the same, and once i have a fair few I might start sorting them into date runs and selling / trading duplicates. That's the plan, whether I stick to it or not is another story................ i only came on here looking for silver 

[Peacemaker]

3 minutes ago, boon said:

Makes good sense  stack em high!

I only have a few so plan to do the same, and once i have a fair few I might start sorting them into date runs and selling / trading duplicates. That's the plan, whether I stick to it or not is another story................ i only came on here looking for silver 

Same! Get quantity then sort quality, dates etc, I only started looking at gold recently when i stumbled across Numistacker's vids on youtube, think i watched all his sovereign vids, realised stacking gold was affordable through sovereigns, best investment i think, low premiums even from big dealers

[boon]

41 minutes ago, DaveWheat89 said:

Same! Get quantity then sort quality, dates etc, I only started looking at gold recently when i stumbled across Numistacker's vids on youtube, think i watched all his sovereign vids, realised stacking gold was affordable through sovereigns, best investment i think, low premiums even from big dealers

Good man, sounds like we have a similar plan of action  shame the price has gone up! 

[Cornishfarmer]

8 hours ago, BigDave84 said:

Once you pop, you can't stop. I've been buying 3 a month for 9 years. 

Interested to hear what's the most and least you've paid for bullion sovs in the 9 years?

[BigDave84]

On 31/08/2017 at 21:47, Cornishfarmer said:

Interested to hear what's the most and least you've paid for bullion sovs in the 9 years?

It varies greatly.  I can remember paying as low as £130-40 and £280-300. Over that period of time you benefit greatly from cost price averaging. I used to keep a log,  but not any more, but I'd say my average price is some around £190-£200 at the worst.

[Peacemaker]

My first has quickly turned into my second and third! I cant stop 

[Guest]

My first has quickly turned into my second and third! I cant stop 

Go with the flow it's a pill that only does you good..

[Kman]

I have made this accurate meme 

[sovereignsteve]

3 minutes ago, Kman said:

I have made this accurate meme 

the weight ratio should perhaps be more pronounced?

[Kman]

12 minutes ago, sovereignsteve said:

the weight ratio should perhaps be more pronounced?

 

[sovereignsteve]

now you're getting silly

I'm surprised at you going down the non-pc stereotype route, you might upset someone

[Cacc]

Congrats on getting into the wonderful world of sovereigns. The only sovereigns I have are ones that I picked up about 20 years ago when I got my first credit card and before I knew anything about precious metals -- I was just into collecting Canadian coins at the time. I picked up MS-63 graded 1917, 1918, and 1919 sovereigns from TeleTrade (an online auction site). I had to have them and it was a couple months worth of paychecks at the time...but sovereigns are still the more beautiful coins that I have in my collection and I don't regret the decision for a moment! Only 1/10oz each, but worth a lot more than their melt value because of age/condition.

[sovereignsteve]

1 hour ago, Cacc said:

Only 1/10oz each

ahem

are you talking about half sovereigns? fulls are almost a quarter (0.2354) oz gold