Blockhead

I try to buy as low premium as I can but I like pandas so I get one of them in 30g Silver each year. Satisfied the collection side of things for me. I do have an interest in Francs of different nationalities and Pamp silver bars but not enough to want to collect them as such, just snap them up when the price is right if I don't have the money allocated for something else. My only regret really is not joining this forum sooner as I could have picked up the 1oz silver coins and bars in my early days a fair bit cheaper than off ebay and some bullion websites.

Gauging interest on swapping your bullion half sovereign for my eight ounces of bullion silver. I have various coins and bars, most in very good condition, but looking to exchange based on weight to avoid disappointment. They are all one troy ounce denomination. Below are some photos I have to hand now as I don't have immediate access at present. I'm based in mainland UK and request we both send special delivery for mutual security. If you don't have a half sovereign i would consider coin(s) making a similar net weight in gold. Thanks for your time.

"I went on a once in a lifetime holiday. I tell you what - never again" - Tim Vine

I hope this isn't too off-topic but how does the 3 items limit work in practice? Seems to be per order but presumably the aim is to stop volume buying of below spot sovereigns to only a small number of customers, so is there a limit per household to stop multiple orders of three? Is there a time limit before you can buy another three to the same household? I appreciate we may not know those answers yet but please update if you do!

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Thanks. I did have one at one point - great shave if you have a steady hand!

I'm guessing Fahrenheit. Several girlfriends have said it's one of their favourites.

Vintage shaving stuff - some of which I use and some I keep. Started off because I wanted a cheap alternative to gillette mach 3 cartridges and I found double edge blades much cheaper and also better for my skin. Well engineered razors still in perfect condition decades later combined with ephemeral counterparts: blades, soaps and aftershaves. Got a real thing about Goya - the British budget perfume brand. Did two cracking men's fragrances - Corvette and Cedarwood - and I have a few shaving sets from them.

My concern is - and this is probably my own ignorance - there always seems to be another way to manipulate these instruments while propping up the systems based on promises and confidence. Silver is low and seems to be staying low. Gold less so but both are no doubt manipulated to some extent by paper promises and claims. What's to stop another system, of subtlety and complexity, rising after one finally collapses?

The Queen is not allowed to get involved in politics. Whether she actually does or not...

Your hope is that the silver you hold after many years can be exchanged for more cash than the amount you bought it with. E.g. If you spend £100 on silver and that buys you a full month's basic food items, then decades later you come to sell, you hope that it will still buy a full month's basic food items, regardless of whether inflation means the same items cost £200, £250, £175 etc. You'll be getting a larger cash amount out but able to buy as much as you could before. This is obviously a broad simplification to understand the idea. Welcome to the forum

My heaviest single item of gold to date. What a beauty!

I would sign it but then they will come after me

Dream or premonition?

We need to get Edmonds on the case to sort all this out. Mug of tea and unnecessarily patronising uncomfortable bodily contact with guests optional.