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To the moon. sjiff

Oddly enough, I've been thinking (albeit just a bit) about exactly that lately. I've had BV gold for quite a while now, but I'm starting to wonder whether to supplement it with some physical so at least I can buy the family tickets out of here if things get too silly. sjiff

Let's hope there's a country worth owning a house in at the end of it. sjiff

Nearly £13/oz. Fark. sjiff

I think 90% AG bags are an American concept. I've never seen those bags in the UK (not that I've looked, to be honest). There is, however, a decent turnover of bulk 50% Ag 1920-1946 British coins on ebay. You can often get them at a reasonable discount (even with postage) to the spot price of the silver they contain if you're patient. The main issues are: - CGT still applies - If you buy and ultimately sell via ebay, the spread is quite wide. There was a discussion about this two or three months ago, maybe over at HPC in the precious metals forum. sjiff

They were in stock yesterday, I think. Must have just run out. The other interesting thing is that Australian kilogram coins still only incur 7% VAT in France (and probably other EU countries too). That makes them cheaper than kilo bars if you can get them delivered to you while you're on holidays, say. Current brutto price is £426.93 for a 2009 kookaburra. sjiff

That's a good deal. With postage at £7.20, you effectively pay £18.36 per Britannia. I'm thinking about sending myself some from coininvestdirect.com when I'm in France early next year. French VAT on silver coins is only 7%, which makes a decent difference if you're ordering a few. Doing it this way the current price for 2008 brits is £16.77. Delivery is a bit more expensive but if you're ordering more than about 5 coins, the total is lower. cheers sjiff

I haven't used them (yet) and they're presently out of stock of buffalos, but Sarnia Silver in in the Channel Islands will send you one of these for £14.50 including delivery to the UK. Not a bad deal when you'd be hard pressed to get a silver britannia from ebay for less than £20 delivered. They do lots of other coins and bars too. The main disadvantage compared to the silver britannia is that the buffalo potentially has CGT payable upon sale (assuming you've used up your annual CGT limit, etc). All foreign silver coins have this disadvantage, of course. There was a thread that mentioned Sarnia on here recently. Apparently the way they work is by sailing under the £18 VAT threshold per item coming from the Channel Islands. This means that if you order 10 coins, you'll get 10 envelopes. As long as they can profitably send an ounce of silver plus postage for less than £18, they'll have a great business. Depending on who you believe, you may need to hurry cheers sjiff