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you realise after a while that it just isn't important - its not the serial number that tells the buyer that its real silver - its the look, the feel, the weight, the sound. i've got some really ugly silver - a 50oz bar, hand poured, air bubbles on the underside, no makers stamp, just a 99.9 and the weight stamped on it - i don't think i'll have much trouble selling when the price is as high as i think its going to get.

i've got loads of bars with no serial number on - i'm not bothered.

happy $1000 gold.......... erm.......... day a nice surprise this morning - unusual though, i haven't seen price movement like this so early in the morning for a while.

going steadily up - exciting stuff!!!!

good old ker! i seem to remember the last time he predicted $450 the price also shot up the next day.

i'm giving him the benefit of the doubt - i assume he isn't that stupid, then again, this is the internet...

yeah, it was realistbear - total bollocks but i think he was just trying to goad the gold bugs, i don't think he actually believed it.

i'm with you GF - it HAS to go up at some point, its inevitable.

good idea. i do like the boxes though.

me too - i honestly don't think it happen.

its strange, steve - i now consider $900 to be a pretty normal price for gold, now that its had an extended period of hanging around that range.

i'm pretty pleased the way gold is behaving recently - its stayed above $900 in a very quiet time when lots of 'green shoots' have appeared (all false obviously). one thing i've learnt is that things seem to happen much slower than i have expected, and that disasters seem to happen in slow motion - i guess thats why they catch so many people unaware. Nothing has changed however, and a big jump in gold will happen in the next few months imo.

always nice to see cgnao back, it wouldn't be a disaster without you!

good stuff, thanks.

ok, so i wouldn't even have to bother telling them anything? i've never filled in a tax form before!

has anybody actually tested the cgt-free nature of britannias/sovs?? i mean has anybody made a load of profit, told the tax office (and told them its tax free) and they have let it go through as non-taxable? i'm just wondering if they might get arsey and try to do you for it.

nothing wrong with that maple. that phil thread was weird on kitco.

thats a lot of useful info there Drbubb, its gonna take me a while to look through it and figure out what it all means!

only 14 tons! thats not much.

i don't know why anybody would use someone other than coinsinvestdirect - they are consistently the cheapest in my experience, sometimes by a large margin.

the new bags should be ok as they are made from polypropylene.

can't really argue with this: 'All that needs to happen for gold to start rallying in sterling terms is for the pound to start falling against the dollar. Given the state of the UK economy, this really isn’t that difficult to imagine.'

£12.29 a couple of days ago

bah! that sucks giant balls - i just received my now overpriced philies today (insert angry face here).

curious time of day for drop.....