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With his sterling silver microphone?

Evening! Coin Cabinet’s latest Premium Auction has just gone live. Some interesting coins including a 2021 Plain Edge Gothic Quartered Arms. Only 125 minted! Probably a bargain for someone in the end, I would think. Anyone in for anything? I have my eyes on a few things! Some lovely early Victoria silver, half sovereigns and a beautiful selection of farthings!

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£1,859.44

Well, that was a 'bit of a drop' in ten minutes 😮

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1650

£1,859.25

The Pearson's r coefficient between gold and silver ranges between a moderate and very strong positive correlation depending on the period in question. In general terms: A correlation coefficient between 0 and 0.3 (or -0.3) is considered a weak correlation. A correlation coefficient between 0.3 and 0.7 (or -0.3 and -0.7) is considered a moderate correlation. A correlation coefficient between 0.7 and 1 (or -0.7 and -1) is considered a strong correlation. Over the last 20 years the gold/silver correlation coefficient has been >0.7, meaning gold and silver prices have been strongly correlated over that period. Over the last 45 years gold/silver have at a minimum been moderately correlated throughout with extended periods of strong correlation In plain English: you can't stack gold and claim silver isn't an investment without committing a logical fallacy - i.e. calling silver a "non-investment" by default also makes gold a "non-investment" due to their strong correlation. Declaring you stack gold while simultaneously dissing silver and calling it "a waste of money", is essentially dissing yourself Over the last 3 months in GBP, gold is up 17.32% while silver is up 22.29% --------------------------------------------- Commander Locke: Damnit, Morpheus, not everyone believes what you believe. Morpheus: My beliefs don't require them to. --------------------------------------------- What else can we say about silver? Lots of things as it happens with silver acting as a proxy for global growth, mirroring the performance of Chinese GDP. Would we say that the MSCI Emerging Markets Index is an "investment"? Hmm, I guess it depends if we base our conclusions on personal opinions or observable facts Hmm, interesting. Is there any reason why silver should behave in this manner as a lagged proxy to Chinese GDP? Funny you should ask, there is: The price of silver is correlated to Chinese GDP and the manufacture of solar panels and batteries, which China has a virtual monopoly over. Well that's a strange coincidence. What would be really weird is if I told you the Chinese are starting to stack silver, like you said nobody would do. The US military are also stacking silver. That's all very odd for a metal they don't believe in. What would really seal the deal is if silver had a superior blend of performance metrics to any other naturally occurring substance that makes it ideal for certain applications. Silver has the highest conductivity of any metal, the highest reflectivity of any metal, is both ductile and malleable along with having antibacterial and catalytic properties I guess that seals the deal then, silver is officially an investment FWIW @BipolarStacker, my money would be on @Earthmetal 👍😁

I wish they made salt spray too. It's a bugger seasoning soup with pepper spray and a salt grinder

Who @Fenlander1 at the mens public toilets in a city centre park late at night, getting ready for a date ??? not sure why he would want to carry this , he must think he’s a police man

That microphone must be the size of a wheelie bin

This is how I picture @stefffana getting ready for a date.

Can I ask from which dealer?

(let's be honest, it's the gifs that I'm taking all the credit for!) £1860

Why thank you!

@Petra I notice you use the whale emoji a lot and wondered why. Is this the reason why you use it in the gold price thread? 😆

🟩🇪🇬 Fatimid Caliphate AV Dinar AH 386-411 (996-1021 AD) – al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah – al-Mansuriya Mint – £730 GBP / $900 USD – Extremely Rare! SOLD! 🔨

🇫🇷 France 20 Francs 1812-A (Paris) – Napoleon I – £460 GBP / $560 USD SOLD! 🔨

HMMMMMM An issue with the matrix? BBP building sandcastles and Batmans?

@katyc where have you been hiding this humour? 💖💖😂😂😂

Your other old copper coins there are 1799 halfpennies. They are very worn, so don't have much value other than being interesting items that are 225 years old. Your 1847 Victoria copper coin is a farthing. I don't know what the French copper (edit: probably bronze) coin is. The cartwheel penny is a little more worn than I had previously thought but it's still perhaps worth £20-£25 if you were to replace it. Nice bits of history...