Modern Silver Crown Coins

I suppose you're right, but don't you think these modern commemorative silver coins are really an exercise in marketing a known public warmth for the Royal Family by mints keen to generate top line growth? I can't pay a 60% premium for that.

Agreed, they actually hold no interest for me and I would rather buy dirty old junk shillings for silver content than these. But they aren't marketed towards the silver stacker at all.

If you're looking for the cheapest dealer for a limited purchase you need to find a small dealer in the EU and you wont pay any more vat than is required in their country if they do business below £70,000 between their country and the UK. For instance one I know has ASE & Philharmonics at £25.65 each + £2.50 shipping.

If you think that mark up is bad just look at this recent thread

https://goccf.com/t/140388

To echo this article on the BBC site it's not only illegal, it's impractical

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4766897.stm

I think he probably means hoarding them for now waiting for them to be demonetised since its perfectly legal to melt down all the predecimal and larger 50, 20 & 10ps. I'm a bit impatient for all that malarkey though.

I buy quite a few lots of foreign coins from time to time and always put away the french francs & dutch guilders into a pot. They're pretty worthless numismatically but are pure 999 nickel - since nickel is approximately $18 a kilo it seems much more worthwhile than copper hoarding.

On the basis of the nickel content, a Franc or a Guilder is worth 10c.

If the Euro currency collapses, and countries return to their national currencies, then the Franc should be worth 20c and the Guilder 61c.

....or a Northern Euro, and Southern Euro. The eurocrats will never give up on the dream.

I think Spink are going to do that next year, personally I like an all in one book. I bet you the price doesn't drop either!