My Gold Stack - Part 1 Of 4

Most of My Post are Mainly about Silver

But I do have some gold

Not a lot really and biggest I have is a 1/4 of an oz

I don't know what my stacks gold to silver ratio is but I have about 1.85 ozs of gold

But hey at least I've got a few posts I can get out there.

Plus we can talk about gold as well

So let's start first with something small 1/25 of an oz

I was happy as it has a dragon on the coat of arms
Not in the greatest condition this one, but at the price who cares about condition



Like I said, not in the greatest condition but some are on the capsule as well.



Yep, it has the solar system on it. Pretty cool coin and then the info card that came with this one.



A close up of the crest/coat of arms of Bhutan




So what next, well I decided to do the roos and gold kooks later in separate posts and same with the two proof dragon coins. so I guess that leaves us the two lunar horse gold coins and two UK gold coins to show..

So first we have the Lunar series 2 - Year of the horse from the Perth Mint.
On the left is the 1/10th of an oz and on the right is the 1/4 of an oz



I picked these up from an LCS called Weighton collectables. Luckily for me, it's not far from where my daughter lives, they are online but going there and picking them up saves on postage and every little saving helps to buy more PM's



So this was the first 1/4 oz I ever bought as the larger the size the lower the premium you pay but I try to always find good value when it comes to buying gold.
So when I was there I Thought I'd be cheeky and asked if he'd sell me the 1/10th at the same premium as the 1/4, he was ummmmm......ok.
Often when he gets something in that catches my eye I order it and get him to hold it for me till I'm that way as well. Great that, the only bad thing is he has some great coins which are not listed online. Sometimes he's not the cheapest either, but for gold, he's pretty good and if you want something not so easy to find, he may have one.
Real bad for my wallet going to this shop.



Silver in the EU has tax applied to it as it's classed as an industrial metal.
Unlike gold which has no tax and in the UK that tax is 20%, so you can see why I buy my silver coins from EU dealers that charge a lot lower tax rate of only 7%, on what they call the margin scheme, but that's another post I can do at another time.



It does make gold a better buy than silver (in the UK IMO)
Gold can also be imported from outside the EU (unlike silver) without falling foul of import charges and Royal Mails fee. Another thing I try to avoid.
So instead of buying Generic silver, I buy gold.
Generally the cheapest I can find around, but that maybe has some hidden equity,
from its numismatic value,
it's not always the case but when looking for some gold last year.
I bought this 1/10 oz gold Britainaina coin from Royal Mint bullion.



They had a sale on and made it the cheapest gold over spot, I could find, that I could afford, at that time. Plus when you buy from RMB it comes in a capsule and was cheaper than one without..So a no-brainer really.



The 2018 coin, would of cost more as they had just comeout, so was a real good deal to take advantage of and that's what i try to do buy Gold as cheap as possible unless it's a dragon of course. I'll Always pay a little extra premium for a dragon, but not to much.



All UK minted gold and silver coins are capital gains tax free. So for us in the UK these are good coins to have in you stack if you a big stacker, but for me I not really up to that threshold yet, but if you was buying large amounts of gold or silver then these coins are a good play.

Now the last coin for this post, This one I bought for a few reason's
The first was I wanted to get a sovereign for the dragon collection.
The second was that It is also a special version
The 3rd well Thats a bit sad. I want to do something to remember 2017 by, which is a year i'll never forget as it's when my son died and the dragon is being slayed. I also want a 2001 coin not quite decided on what yet but I want that to be real special to mark the year my son was born. So I picked up this from hatten garden metals.



It was around 2% 0r 3 % premium at the time plus postage and was the cheapest 2017 sovereign around with the 200 mint mark. 200 years they been producing the sovereign.



They Only had a few and they didn't last long, so I used the credit card to buy it then and there... Sometimes you gotta be quick or you miss the boat, when deals like that come along and the CC is interest free on purchases for 30 months.. so works for me. I'd never use one unless it's 0% or i can pay it off at the end of the month.



It's a real nice looking coin I will get some more sovereigns maybe one of each of the different designs. But like evrything you can only afford to buy what you can buy when you can buy it and i'm in no rush right now to buy gold
Mainly iI'm buying silver as the ratio is over 80 to 1 and for me thats high. I have an order of silver on the way should arrive on monday my biggest ever order.
I hope you all enjoyed reading this post, as much as i do creating it, being the 1st part of a four part series of post on my Gold stack.

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