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What's oil got to do, got to do with it?
What's oil but a second hand crustacean?
 
£1860.25

And everyone on TSF breathes a collective sigh of relief (heard all the way Down Under). 😆

Thank f**** for that, I was on the hook for twelve of them 😆 

they’ve admitted it was an error, all good, I can stop worrying now 

 

Nope. But they sell anchovies.
Take out their eyes one by one. Wash them with cold water, put them in a sterling silver bowl, spread over them 5ml of olive oil and serve them as russian caviar. Look the same, taste the same, will cost you under £5, even your friends will be fouled.
If you don't have a silver bowl, call a friend!😘

Jocasta's and Felicity's pony simply can't abide Aldi value straw, the butler told me 

If you think £60 is a trolly of groceries these days you haven't been paying attention to this inflation thing.

But me bought the high and it's worth less. You told me gold was a sure thing.
Reported 

My nan's cousin (Diana Coupland) was in a movie with Sid James called Bless This House in the early 70s.
She's also the voice over singing in the famous Ursula Andress golden bikini scene in Dr No.
Random fact of the day. 
Nothing to do with Gold. 
Reported myself.
£1862

Just bought my most expensive Bullion Sovereign ever at £459.12

That marsupial looks positively ripped compared to many (1/40oz) Brits I've seen around here... 
 
 

That marsupial looks positively ripped compared to many (1/40oz) Brits I've seen around here... 
 
 

That marsupial looks positively ripped compared to many (1/40oz) Brits I've seen around here... 
 
 

That marsupial looks positively ripped compared to many (1/40oz) Brits I've seen around here... 
 
 

That marsupial looks positively ripped compared to many (1/40oz) Brits I've seen around here... 
 
 

Now that I’m a big time gold buyer , I thought I’ll have bragging rights , TODAY I RECEIVED “  “ the king of coins , the big time , top of the line the almighty 1/20 kangaroo thing , check it out in its sponged case 👍, @treetop1280= Winner , move over ball bags there is a new player at the table???

For some reason I don't seem to like this game as much as I did last week....

£1895 

Also, unless I have missed it, we don't seem to talk much of the gold to silver ratio anymore?
With circa £1,900/oz looking like the new level for gold to only climb from, does this not mean that the once coveted 1:40 gold to silver ratio is a thing of the past?
If May acts like April, we'll be into £2,000/oz territory... Imagine explaining to yourself at Christmas 2023 that you'd pay £500 for a bullion Sovereign not long after Easter.

Lots of US stock earnings reports this week.
It's unusual for the S&P500 to have six consecutive days of declines

Gold declines are perhaps a indicator of expectations of a S&P500 up day/maybe some good earnings reports.

My insights have always been genuine.... albeit drivel on the NBS but historically I have given insight in this thread.
Regardless of my rank status. When you is an OG you is an OG...
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Sounds dodgy. Reported.

Good luck. They've been avoiding the requests since 2016 or so when the then CFO who was amiable to providing such info was no more. Up until 2015 the data was available.
"Although we hold information within the scope of your request we are withholding this information pursuant to section 43 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Section 43 FOIA – Commercial interests
It is our view that the release of information in respect of mintage figures for bullion coins would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of the Royal Mint as well as the market and end customers for these coins generally.
Core bullion products (e.g. Queens Beast, Sovereign and Britannia) do not have mintages, certainly not in the sense that we do with commemorative coins. Instead the production figures are solely determined by market/customer demand. Declaring production figures on these coins has the potential to impact sales and falsely inflate the prices in the bullion market. For example, if the production figure is considered to be low then the product could be viewed as a rare/collectible item and in these cases many retailers increase their prices. This causes confusion as to the distinction between core bullion products and commemorative/collectible items. There is then the clear potential to negatively impact the end customer as they could end up paying more for a bullion product than its intrinsic value. It could also impact negatively on our numismatic business as these products are sold in that team too. We note that our stance in this regard is just the same as with many other Mints (e.g. the Royal Canadian Mint), neither of whom declare mintage figures for bullion coins, but do for commemorative coins in accordance with their publication schemes."
Makes no sense but that's what they're likely to reply. 

For what it's worth, I've put in a Freedom of Information request to the Royal Mint, to establish whether the mintage figure of 137 bullion coins is correct (as per 2021 Marsh book). RM have got 20 working days to respond (and could extend by another 20 days if they're struggling to find the info). Day '1' will be Monday 22nd April.
Will update once I get a response.