My journey to 100x 20 French Francs

[realbluegold]

Hi! When you are a stacker it seems normal to have goals like filling a tube of maples or reaching 500oz of silver.

Well I want to have a difficult goal, a goal not reachable in a few months. That's why I've decided that I want to reach 100 gold 20 french francs. I think that I will end by 2020 or so.

 

I will post every one of the coins that I receive with the year and a photo . That way I will have a diary of the collection through the years.

 

I know that many of you do the same but with sovs so this will be a little different! If anyone wants to join me...be welcome!!!

 

 

[mr-dead]

Don't forget cgt when it comes time to sell up.  Sovs will be more liquid and no cgt to pay. 

[BaldyBob]

Good Luck Blue.... great believer in picking up what is relevant for your area, definitely easier to move on when the time comes.  I think I will be favouring British & European Au/Ag in future.

 

With regards to CGT in the UK, although it is nice not to worry about it, I feel the issue is overplayed anyway with regards to the smaller investor.

 

It is only charged on profit, and with a personal allowance in the UK of over £10000 before it kicks in, gold/silver prices are really going to have to rocket, or you are going to have to sell a lot of non UK gold/silver, before any taxes  apply.

 

BB

[morezone]

Good luck with your goal.  I plan on getting one soon and they're well priced.  €187.5 or there about ex delivery which is only 3.2% over spot.

[Danny-boy]

I thought my 1000 threepences and 100 round 50c's was pretty ambitious, but that is one hell of a goal buddy.

How many do you have so far?

[Dune69]

A great challenge and an awesome goal

 

Good luck on your journey.. it will be fascinating to follow

[Cointreau]

Question for 'Bluey':

If you're from Barcelona, why have real in your name, as in Real Madrid?

[Keithoil]

Good luck with that I am on a Gold quest myself at the moment.

[silversword]

Good luck with that I am on a Gold quest myself at the moment.

A quest to buy every sovereign ever minted, it appears

[Keithoil]

I wished, I really wished!!!

[StackemHigh]

It could be a goal, Just not a very realistic one.

[Parcelsilver]

Good luck with this. I also set mini goals like get 5 2rand coins,tick. I'm working on 5 10peso coins now and I got 3 so far.

[HighlandTiger]

If HGM still have those 20 Franc gold coins on Monday night, two of them might be winging their way to me. (got to wait till then for money to go into my bank)

 

I'll race you to 100............. 

[Keithoil]

I might start on them.

 

 

I'll race you to 100............. 

 

I might start buying some.....

[HighlandTiger]

I might start on them.

 

 

I might start buying some.....

 

Oi, you stick to your sovereigns. Give us poor people a fighting chance

 

 

Update...10:31

 

Just pulled the trigger on two of those 20 Francs at HGM. Got three working days to pay, so will still pay on Monday. Couldn't risk anyone stealing my gold precioussssssssssssss

 

So that'll be me on two now. Over to you RBG.

 

Keithoil, new rules, you can't buy any French stuff untill you've got the full set of every year and mint marks of Sovereigns. That'll give the rest of us a couple of weeks head start buying the foreign stuff.         

[Cointreau]

Oi, you stick to your sovereigns. Give us poor people a fighting chance

 

 

Update...10:31

 

Just pulled the trigger on two of those 20 Francs at HGM. Got three working days to pay, so will still pay on Monday. Couldn't risk anyone stealing my gold precioussssssssssssss

 

So that'll be me on two now. Over to you RBG.

 

Keithoil, new rules, you can't buy any French stuff untill you've got the full set of every year and mint marks of Sovereigns. That'll give the rest of us a couple of weeks head start buying the foreign stuff.         

I was going to buy one on Monday to piss you off.

[HighlandTiger]

As I'm now officially a gold bug, I have decided that although my main stack will be sovereigns, I'll still be on the lookout, especially at HGM with the 3% over spot, (5% usually if you include delivery) for foreign coins. I have no interest in any of the new numi gold coins, but I love the old stuff. I won't buy anything larger than a sovereign, (my budget rules out any of the larger coins, and saving money for a bigger coin hoping to dilute the delivery charge, could easily be dashed through price fluctuations anyway), so any coin that appears on HGM that is less than a sov in size, I'll try to get. 

 

I've already got a Prussian 1913 20 Mark gold coin, which I got from my local dealer, so these French gold coins will look nice next to that one

[HighlandTiger]

I was going to buy one on Monday to piss you off.

There is one left. Buy it now and piss off Keith.................LOL

[craig12]

sorry to jump on thread  is this a good deal  french franc rooster  £168     6.45g fineness 900.0 pure gold content 5.80600g 

regards /  cant work out how much as a %that is over spot   seems to be a good price 

[morezone]

£900/Oz or 17% or so.

[craig12]

not so good then  many thanks for that

[HighlandTiger]

If you can get those size coins for less than £150 then you are in the right ball park. Anything over that at today's prices I'd give a miss

[craig12]

so to summarise ht £150 for 6.45g     £155ish at hgm just spotted

[HighlandTiger]

£150 delivered is about 5% over spot give or take

[morezone]

The francs are .900 finess so only 5.8g gold. £155 would be a top end giving 8% landed