AgeingBabyBoomer
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does anyone know if gold sets off the metal detecting scanners you walk through? (do they detect ferromagnetic materials?) That would be the easiest thing to do.
Aiui, thye pick up any metal - as a few folks with interesting
piercings have discovered.
ABB
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You sold physical bullion? All your bullion should be held in your personal possession. Do you really think electronic gold will be worth much when they close the banks and re-order the world.
Prompts me to ask if anybody has ever tried taking
gold coins through an airport lately?
I'm thinking the best bet is to mix it in with regular coins and put it through
the hand luggage scanner.
Anybody fancy doing a trial run with a sov or two and reporting back?
ABB
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the timing was perfect. those in the know could see the UK state failure was a dead cert, and so pocketed the half the nations gold at rock bottom price.
he is the sort of w4anker that probably ended up with some of it.
Not to mention Bliar, who now works for JPM....
ABB
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CNBC=ShoeshineboyTV.
Yes they keep talking about gold - clear sign
that it is about to go down IMO.
IIRC January is a seasonal highpoint for gold (Wedding season + Chinese New Year).
ABB
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Could somebody explain what the O's and X's mean, and how they are generated?
They always look like a whacky game of connect4 to me
ABB
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What have I just missed ???? Gold just fell off a cliff.
I cant see any economic figures today. Or it being dragged down by Oil ????
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Beware, commodity index rebalancing ahead
In financial terms, we expect the rebalancing to have the greatest impact in gold, COMEX copper, crude oil, gold, and live cattle. We estimate that the rebalancing of the two indices is expected to result in $877 million of selling in gold, $699 million of buying in COMEX copper, $528 million of selling in live cattle, and $523 million of buying in crude oil.ABB
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I just had a thought (don't laugh
).Some of the popular small bullion coins are historical, circulated coins like British sovereigns, French 20 francs etc.
These are plain bullion coins because they are pretty common.
The question is, and I'm hoping some real coin expert (id5 maybe) could answer this, just how common are these coins?
How many Victoria soverigns are there in the world and how many Bonaparte 20 Francs, for example?
Are most of them still in existence or have many been remolded for other purposes?
In Victorian times it was the practice of the Bank of England to remove worn sovereigns and half sovereigns from circulation and have them recoined. Consequently, although a billion sovereigns have been minted in total, that figure includes gold that has been coined and recoined a number of times. In addition, when coins were sent to places such as the United States for international payments between governments, coins were frequently melted down into gold bars because of the Federal regulations then in force. When gold coins were finally withdrawn from circulation in 1933 in the US, many thousands of British gold sovereigns were consigned to the melting pot in this way.It is estimated that in circulation, a sovereign could have a lifespan of up to 15 years before it fell below the "least current weight", that is, the minimum amount of gold below which it ceased to be legal tender.[4] It was actually the half-sovereign that had the most circulation in Victorian England. Many sovereigns languished in bank vaults for most of their lives. It is estimated that only 1% of all gold sovereigns that have ever been minted are still in collectable condition.
Enough for me
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Since updating my Java version the Bullionvault chart does not work! Anyone else had this issue?
I had an issue with the iced-tea implementation supplied with Fedora 8.
(Applet not initialised).
The fix is to uninstall iced-tea packages (but due to the large number of dependencies
it will remove a lot of other stuff). Install the sun JRE/JDK, reinstall things like Open Office etc.
ABB
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I think cgnao's point is that short term thie moves are a lottery, and so charting is just a lot of lines
Longer term, the price direction is very much up, since all the CBs and govs are throwing unlimited amounts of new money at the global economic problems
If that's the case, then fine - only the subtlety of the message was not
conveyed by defacing Ker's chart.
To me (as a recovering scientist) TA looks like voodoo, but I like to hear
all sides of an argument and draw my own conclusions.
ABB
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Nah, the red line is more like it.
Poor form. Ker is as entitled to his opinion as your are to yours.
No matter how right you may have been lately, throwing stones is
simply throwing stones.
ABB
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I would like to have this kind of information BEFORE I pay. Other than that, CID has been excellent so far IMO.
Agreed, an expected delivery time would be nice, only
I can imagine peeps would start arbitraging during dips
in the spot price...
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I will sit tight then.
It's just with it being an online only company, I don't like the thought of waiting for my coins for too long.
I have spoken with Sara again & she is very helpful isn't she.
Nevertheless, it is mildly misleading to advertise
a product as available, only to give delayed delivery
once the customer has committed to an order...
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Always an interesting watch. Doesn't mean I agree with it
Hmm, that's the problem with TA, any number
of analyses can give a plausible answer, but
only one of them turns out to be right.
ABB
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Bob Hoye is looking for a bottom around $770 (ooer).
ABB
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Would the delivery of maples instead of eagles upset anyone else?
Gold or silver?
If gold, the maples are 9999, eagles 917, so you probably got a deal.
OTOH, you should get what you ordered, so I would query it.
would Sovs with dents in them upset anyone?How bad are the dents, and how old are the sovs?
A couple of mine have dings, but only visible through a hand lens.
Would anyone complain?Just curious, as I don't want appear pedantic by complaining if it is trivial.
I would query it, after making sure the error was not in my favour
ABB
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Sorry but to me it sounds like wild speculation at this point. IMO a version of this may eventually come to fruition, but I sincerely doubt this level of commitment has been given by the alleged supporting countries, it smells of a conspiracy theory to me. Nevertheless, it was interesting to note he didn't mention the UK per se just Sterling, was it just an over sight?
Airstrip One will always be part of the Empire.
ABB
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Medvedev lashes out at gold producers
President Dmitry Medvedev has hit out at Russia's gold producers for not being efficient enough.Speaking to representatives of the sector in Russia's far eastern city of Magadan, Medevev urged them to cut down on bureaucracy and to co-operate better with the government.
He called on all the sides to resolve the issues as quickly as possible.
“You are aware of how the financial markets are performing right now, and their effect on the rising gold prices. You should be able to cope with all this a lot faster,” Medvedev said.
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Not being one to count my chickens:
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Cunning subterfugal plan by the PTB to dupe us contrarian-minded gold bugs out of our gold?
Too paranoid for me - I thought it more likely to have
been part of a media scare campaign to rally support
for taxpayer funded bailouts.
The MSM has been in overdrive on that particular topic.
ABB
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Was down at ATS today, no queues, two other customers
whilst I was there.
Very low on stocks, and they 'had been busy'.
Chatting to the guy, he mentioned the Guardian article.
Apparently, they only had a 'few words' and next thing they were on the
front page of the Grauniad.
Not too pleased, as they prefer to be discreet for obvious reasons.
Apparently photographers had arrived this morning to photograph the
queues of people trying to buy gold, but there were none.
Draw your own conclusions.
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He saw something shiny, nicked it and flew away.
ABB