Roy

Not an ABBA fan then? 

Most people suffer price indigestion.  If you were buying sovs at 250 quid it’s takes a while to get used to buying them at 330.  Etc etc 
but after a period of time one adjusts and gets back into the swing of it..
 
I have the same attitude to beer prices.  But that only lasts about 4 minutes 

If the holes in your socks are in different places then just wear 2 pairs per day.
There’s no need to divert funds away from gold. Just be resourceful.

With prices hitting ATH pretty much every other day, have you thought about a cut off point?
Me personally, I’m still gonna stick with the plan of at least a sovereign or 1/4 oz a month till retirement and then cash out that Sovereign or quarter per month to help out when the pension isn’t enough to cover my planned life style of slow cars and fast women!!

Euphemism?

I have discovered that the mysterious DOCTOR from Bullionvault is the nickname for Bullionvault's own trading account.
Today 5891kg of Silver was withdrawn from the Zurich vault.

Gold suite was a little OTT though!

I’m never angry bud……gold has just bought me a new house! 

@Clarkatroid why would you comment on your own sales post to start bashing Chards, just because you don’t agree with the price that they offered to buy from you.
If you were selling a used car and the nearest garage wouldn’t give you what you wanted, then surely you’d just go to another garage. Until:
A: You get the price you want.
or 
B: You realise that your expectations are over inflated and settle for less.
Also, why would you bring up an article from 23 years ago about someone who you know is a member of the forum and then say that the forum that you are trying to sell on is and I quote, ‘full of trolls’.
Talk about how to alienate people.
 

Would you be open to posting first? Just till you build up some trust.

Sell your bars or don’t sell your bars. Bashing Lawrence and Chards openly is not cool and most members have the utmost respect for him- including myself.
#exceptforfreepostage
How about editing your posts and let’s get an auction for your bars👍
£1

Think this thread should be set on fire, personally. 

I do not know why some members are trying to cause upset to Lawrence and any of his family or fellow workers who might look in.  Lawrence from the time I have been on this forum has always been helpful and willing to share his knowledge to who ever asks.  

To be fair, he was only wanting to mass-debate with you. You should be flattered. 

Hi yes 2oz =56.699g

Would agree with masonic vibes and it actually all 4 triangles in it, air, water, fire and earth.

Discount stamps for sale!
I have a large quantity of stamps for sale.
All stamps are mint, unused, genuine and fully valid for postage for any 1st class, 2nd class, signed for, or Special Delivery service.
Postage to you included in prices below:

1st class barcoded stamps in books of 4: £4 per book (£5.40 at post office)

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1st class full sheets of 50-60 commemorative stamps. Beautiful and not often found mint and complete. 90p per stamp   2nd class commemorative bags of 100 stamps: £60 

Commemorative stamps sorted by denomination in bags of 50. Many values available:
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Indeed the Masonic angle came to my mind when looking at the triangular mark.
I thought i would wear this to show i was a member of the Illuminati.

well worth the read

https://www.metalsdaily.com/archive/ross-norman-where-the-buying-is-coming-from-/352537

Interesting one @sixgun!
To be honest, I don't know but let me share what I found.
The 2000 hallmark is a celebratory one, aptly named 'the Millennium hallmark' and could be used in 1999 and 2000, as shown in this pic:

Note date 'a'. (2000)
The outfit IBB is based in Hatton Garden so I don't know why it was assayed in Sheffield rather than London?
They also knocked these out in sterling silver:


Now, as to the bottom hallmark, I can only offer my ideas.
It looks like a 'handshake', I detect Masonic vibes 😇
The 3 triangles may represent Air, Fire and Water (common in symbology).
Perhaps a batch of custom pieces were created for a group, society, members club etc.?
Nice piece 👌 

WARNING: TL:DR
Is the current gold rush sustainable?
A better question:
Are the sovereign debts of the US, EU, UK and China sustainable?
Gold is essentially the inverse of debt - when debt accelerates, gold goes up
We talk a lot about China buying gold but don't spend a lot of time fully investigating why. Is it BRICS? Is it a communist master plan of de-dollarisation? 
No, the CCP and Chinese financial system are doing it out of necessity, same as the rest of us. China has printed more money than the western world combined. The Chinese are in a desperate scramble to swap their currency for something a bit more, you know, valuable, like oil (Saudis) and gold
The local and regional banks in the Chinese system have been instructed to stack physical gold as a hedge against their property market and manufacturing sector. That's why there's a premium on physical gold in China - they don't just want it for political purposes, they need that gold for their survival
Despite the insanity going on in the USA with a POTUS more interested in pronouns than profits, it will be China's currency that goes to the wall first. When you hear commentators talk about de-dollarisation and the end of American hegemony, don't forget the studies show the USD will be the LAST currency to fail. The USD might not survive a great deal longer than other currencies but the Euro, Yen, GBP and RMB will collapse before the USD collapses. 
The concept of de-dollarisation is global, global financial collapse. Peter Schiff talks a lot about the collapse of the US but fails to provide a credible successor, other than the usual talk of currency revaluation vs metals (making gold and silver stupendously valuable like buying a mansion for a tube of silver Britannias)
Many have posted here before that the ATH for gold when adjusted for inflation is well north of $3,000. We can hit $3,000/oz without breaking sweat. 
If we use shadowstats or alternative metrics we can say the inflation-adjusted ATH is actually >$5,400:
https://www.bullionvault.com/gold-news/gold_price_inflation_010620119
We can go well beyond that with debt creation and inflation, with market expectations for debt to accelerate when the central banks cut rates. The debt burden is unsustainable. The only tool available to service that debt is to erode the real terms burden with inflation -> pump gold. It's not just sovereign debt but the robustness of corporate debt in general is starting to worry people. The commercial real estate debt component is a ticking time bomb
Rate cuts will be global. Nobody will cut before the Fed cuts unless they specifically want to encourage inflation (like Japan) or have an economic crisis, but once our global overlord flicks the switch, everybody else will likely follow. 
There is an argument for the BoE not cutting, allowing GBP to appreciate and using that as a tool to battle inflation. The penalty for that might be domestic recession and financial burden on mortgagees and borrowers, including the government itself. We'd also be living in cloud cuckoo land, identifying as a nation that can service its debts without inflation. The ugly truth is that inflation is essential to all sovereign governments due to the chronic corruption and mismanagement of previous regimes over several decades. 
If gold kept up its recent price action (adding 8%/month) for a full year then gold would be close to that $5400 inflation-adjusted ATH
Will gold keep up this pace? Theoretically it can but it would require some sort of additional catalyst IMHO
I have no doubt gold will continue to go up and the price is justified, my worry is does everybody else know this? How much of the recent price action is speculative and can be reversed vs sticky long term physical stacking?
If gold is the ultimate security, a stable store of real wealth, it's hard to justify rapid appreciations without expecting some sort of reversal. If a rapid appreciation (2.5x current price minimum) is justified then it tells us that the global financial system is close to the end times. That has all sorts of ramifications with the most likely one being a repeat of the 1930s (Great Depression - WWII)
We will get a better indicator this summer. The current price action while fun isn't of great importance. If gold continues to go up this summer then either we go to the moon when the central banks cut or it's been a paper scam, buy the rumour sell the news. A more gradual appreciation of metals is preferable to manic price action that causes global instability. High volatility does not favour us, it favours traders and the super wealthy (volatility = profit)
Gold might temporarily make you a king (Rafi Farber-style) but gold is not for getting wealthy, it is for preserving wealth

N.M ROTHSCHILD & SONS (1954) - TANGIERS - 500 DIRHAMS - 1 OUNCE 22 CARAT GOLD BULLION ROUND 916.7 PURE GOLD
Same specs as a krugerrand so has 1 oz if fine gold.
ONE-YEAR-ONLY GOLD TRADE COIN – This coin was struck for just one year and It depicts Roman god Hercules on the obverse while the reverse features the N.M. Rothschild & Sons stamp along with the coin’s gold weight and purity
Each 1954 Morocco Gold Rothschild & Sons Coin was struck in one ounce of highly pure 91.67% gold and measures 22.5 mm in diameter.
This 1954 Morocco Gold Rothschild & Sons Coin is 500 Dirhams legal tender in Morocco, though it was intended for banking transactions by N.M. Rothschild & Sons.
Just 10,000 of these 1954 Morocco 500 Dirhams One-Ounce Gold Rothschild & Sons Coins were ever struck 70 years ago. 
£2700 + Postage, BT or PPFF
 
 
TIA 

Selling to the man who most definitely only buys one coin a month… several times a month! 

Boss we found 1000 kilos of gold!
500 kilos you say?
Yes, 146kg!

Malaria old boy? I've just the tonic for that!