Sentimental value only, I'm afraid. The 2008 Spink catalogue quotes a retail price of £4 for a coin in VF condition. Normally, an Edward VII...
Hi Farmer (nobody is "just" a farmer) You're quite right, of course, and many gold mines do the same sort of commercial shorting. They need...
Hi Hawksquat, One of the reasons for buying tenth ounce gold Eagles is if you are a survivalist. These often-misunderstood people fear that...
Gosh, that was a good price: 1.2% below spot! Clearly I just do not understand the US market at the moment. :o I'm not surprised about the...
I'm not sure that $240 is possible any more. At $980 an ounce, the intrinsic value of a sovereign (0.23542 oz) is about $230. $250 for a...
Hi Yankee, The whole of the article you quote is on the Web at http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1243519200.php It's fascinating but,...
The five years were 1998, 1999, 2000, 2006 & 2007. What was happening before: the economy was booming/in a bubble. The high relative price for...
Thanks for that. I'm wondering whether I may have answered the question myself. Because the language round the rim of the coin is most...
I wasn't thinking so much of English text, Eduard, as of the reverse of some coins. This Web page http://www.worldbook.com/wb/Media?id=lr004088...
Doubloons are way outside my area of specialization--most of what I know about them comes from Moby-Dick--but I've often wondered why the word...
IIRC, the change was in 1959. It was not a change that created a metric ounce. As you say, that doesn't exist. It was change that recognized...
From 765 to 1820, the Jutes then the English then the British used silver pennies. Originally one-twentieth of an ounce of silver, these were...
The price of gold in pounds sterling has hardly changed. I suspect that what you are seeing says more about the troubles of the US dollar than...
According to a UK coin dealer http://www.24carat.co.uk/mariatheresathalerframe.html "The taler became the unofficial currency of some of the...
Hi Tholath, The strait in question is the Strait of Malacca. The Straits Settlements were small colonies (presumbly originally colonies of...
Any High Street bank will convert notes into coin for you at no charge. This is purely a change service, not a numismatic service, so the bags...
The lady on the back is Britannia.
Hi Rachel, This is not my area of specialization, but nobody has replied to your post since yesterday, so I'll have a go. I'm basing my answer...
The usual way is to study the ratio between the price of an ounce of gold and the price of an ounce of silver. The problem is determining what the...
A View from Across the Atlantic Hi Argento, Are you interested in non-US dealers as well? For me, bullion means gold (silver attracts sales tax...
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