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My favourite pick ups of all time. 1/10oz pure 9999 gold animals. Should have been a set of 12 (zodiac) but three were damaged beyond recovery so a set of 9. Stunning pieces. 

My favourite pick ups of all time. 1/10oz pure 9999 gold animals. Should have been a set of 12 (zodiac) but three were damaged beyond recovery so a set of 9. Stunning pieces. 

Some rare coins all in stunning lustrous condition purchased over the weekend 
1873 Johann Kingdom of saxony 20 marks - 1 year only 
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces56109.html
1931 Emanuele Vittorio 100 Lire - 23,000 mintage 
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces21256.html
Saudi Arabia Guinea 
 
 

My favourite pick ups of all time. 1/10oz pure 9999 gold animals. Should have been a set of 12 (zodiac) but three were damaged beyond recovery so a set of 9. Stunning pieces. 

My favourite pick ups of all time. 1/10oz pure 9999 gold animals. Should have been a set of 12 (zodiac) but three were damaged beyond recovery so a set of 9. Stunning pieces. 

My favourite pick ups of all time. 1/10oz pure 9999 gold animals. Should have been a set of 12 (zodiac) but three were damaged beyond recovery so a set of 9. Stunning pieces. 

My favourite pick ups of all time. 1/10oz pure 9999 gold animals. Should have been a set of 12 (zodiac) but three were damaged beyond recovery so a set of 9. Stunning pieces. 

My favourite pick ups of all time. 1/10oz pure 9999 gold animals. Should have been a set of 12 (zodiac) but three were damaged beyond recovery so a set of 9. Stunning pieces. 

My favourite pick ups of all time. 1/10oz pure 9999 gold animals. Should have been a set of 12 (zodiac) but three were damaged beyond recovery so a set of 9. Stunning pieces. 

My favourite pick ups of all time. 1/10oz pure 9999 gold animals. Should have been a set of 12 (zodiac) but three were damaged beyond recovery so a set of 9. Stunning pieces. 

My favourite pick ups of all time. 1/10oz pure 9999 gold animals. Should have been a set of 12 (zodiac) but three were damaged beyond recovery so a set of 9. Stunning pieces. 

My favourite pick ups of all time. 1/10oz pure 9999 gold animals. Should have been a set of 12 (zodiac) but three were damaged beyond recovery so a set of 9. Stunning pieces. 

My favourite pick ups of all time. 1/10oz pure 9999 gold animals. Should have been a set of 12 (zodiac) but three were damaged beyond recovery so a set of 9. Stunning pieces. 

I would say a few things here: 
£380-420 is the going range for these retail direct. 

ebay has high fees so no way a dealer would accept below the £420 mark. I know I wouldn’t. 
I think a lot of dealers get fed up with low offers in your case you offered 15% less. 
Keep in mind end fees and cost bud end up 10-16% plus they have other costs as ongoing business. Essentially your offer means they are making just about spot or a few quid on this coin. 
 
May just have decided don’t want to deal with you in the future and decided to burn the bridge. 
I have one spare at £380 plus post if you still want one. 

I would say a few things here: 
£380-420 is the going range for these retail direct. 

ebay has high fees so no way a dealer would accept below the £420 mark. I know I wouldn’t. 
I think a lot of dealers get fed up with low offers in your case you offered 15% less. 
Keep in mind end fees and cost bud end up 10-16% plus they have other costs as ongoing business. Essentially your offer means they are making just about spot or a few quid on this coin. 
 
May just have decided don’t want to deal with you in the future and decided to burn the bridge. 
I have one spare at £380 plus post if you still want one. 

I would say a few things here: 
£380-420 is the going range for these retail direct. 

ebay has high fees so no way a dealer would accept below the £420 mark. I know I wouldn’t. 
I think a lot of dealers get fed up with low offers in your case you offered 15% less. 
Keep in mind end fees and cost bud end up 10-16% plus they have other costs as ongoing business. Essentially your offer means they are making just about spot or a few quid on this coin. 
 
May just have decided don’t want to deal with you in the future and decided to burn the bridge. 
I have one spare at £380 plus post if you still want one. 

@ilovesilverireallydo knows all about these.
Ask him to put you on his list 👍

Hi Zishan,
Just spotted your post and besides saying welcome, if you want some knowledge and to  trade with someone very friendly on your doorstep, go say hello to @ilovesilverireallydo. One year ago, I was pretty much yourself, although I did have a head start with some hand me downs. The big fella is worth 10 minutes of anyone’s time.

I just can’t seem to get less than a 70 on these 89 half’s. My luck is something else. 😂

Lovely Victoria Jubilee Set.  Thanks @ilovesilverireallydo
 

I too see way too many of these. Always with the original receipt which is depressing. These guys market them as investment as well, over the phone, they should really be taken to task over it one day.

I too see way too many of these. Always with the original receipt which is depressing. These guys market them as investment as well, over the phone, they should really be taken to task over it one day.

I'm glad people are stacking their coins with care!
I too would always prefer people to take resonable care of their coins.
Sure, an RM tube is probably the most efficient gold/sq.in but they rub!
400 ounce good delivery bars, or even kilo bars are more space efficient than coins in RM tubes, but not really as enjoyable unless you have enough of them.
When I see @LawrenceChard shuffling sovereigns in his hand, I cringe!! 
I'm sorry if me shuffling sovereigns makes you cringe. I tend to only do it with circulated coins, and even then I try to minimise the relative movement between them. There is a trade-off between processing efficiency and handling damage.
Sure, they're only bullion and they're not 999 but it seems so wrong....I mean, they're £300 plus.
Yes, I keep forgetting they've gone up from £4
You wouldn't chuck your Snap-On tools in a toolbox, no, you'd put them back on the socket rail they came from!
What's a socket rail? 🙂
On a serious note: I cringe at some of the treatment people give coins:
We quite often get proof sovereigns and proof sets, where the owners have had them all out of the capsules, got fingerprints and scratches on the coins, discarded the RM certificates, and chain-smoked so the boxes reek of smoke, and we have to "quarantine" them until the smell goes.
I remember collecting a large quantity (1000+) of sovereigns from an exclusive London address. The owners had bought them from us some years before, and paid extra for some new minty ones. When we arrived to collect them, we discovered they had let their kids use them as toys, so there were no longer any minty ones.
Another time, a chap bought a lot of modern proof gold from us over a few years, then some years later decided to sell them. He had taken the capsules out of the boxes so they could fit in his safe, but then let his grand-daughter sell many of them on ebay. the boxes he still had stank of tobacco smoke.
On a slight tangent, another thing which we find frustrating is when people bring us quite large "collections" of modern issues they have bought from one or more of the coin marketing companies. Often these are old people, usually not internet-savvy, and they have "invested" for their children, grand-children, etc, but never done any research until too late. It is quite common to hear that people have spent 6 figure amounts of money. One recent example must have cost about £600,000! We ended up paying him about 60% of that, but only because gold prices had gone up since he bought them. If he had bought bullion sovereigns, Britannias, or similar from us, he could have been getting over £1 million for them.
As it happens, there were many interesting coins, mainly because they were "new to us", but many of them are not highly sought after, and it requires considerable marketing effort to find good new homes for them. I suspect many dealers would have just bought them for scrap.
 

Been a bit selective lately trying to keep the premium stuff when I get it cheap. This poor 1937 half sov has seen better days, but good enough as a filler. 

Old thread but though I’d share! Similar method to others!! I use lighthouse capsules for the sovs and air tite tubes. Can fit 17 per tube. Can’t remember how many 1 oz fit in a tube with the ringed capsules i use. The width of my safe deposit box is exactly right for the sov tubes which is very handy!