Gold Sovereign vs 1oz Gold Britannia bullion coin (Royal Mint) Best way to invest in gold in the UK? 

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I live in the US, but my favorite low premium fractional is the Sovereign. You can get a 100 year old coin for a couple percent over spot. I buy the random dates on sales, and am usually pleasantly surprised by the near uncirculated conditions I get regularly🙂

Nice video! For your calculation it might have probably been easier to multiply the spot price of an ounce of Gold with 0.2354 to get the spot value for the Sovereign. But the result should be pretty much the same.

Can you compare a 1oz Silver Britannia and a 1oz gold Britannia. Be very interesting to see the premium difference between the 2 metals. I already know Silver will lose due to the 20% tax but be interesting to see the exact figures

Great video! That tells me to buy more sovereign coins! Awesome! 👋👋👋

On this basis sovereigns are better as they are easier to sell if you want to turn some of your gold back to cash

24 kt (Britannia bullion) or 22 kt (Sovereign coin) is the key difference, apart from that the latter tends to exact a higher premium over spot. So an ordinary Sovereign tends to be not worth stacking unless there is something unique to it. The Britannias now have enhanced security features but otherwise seems bland to the historicity of the Sovereigns.

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Sounds like a rip of to me. It doesn’t cost 4x as much to craft a Britannia than a Sovereign. The numbers (from the mint) just don’t have any logic behind them

We like both of these coins over here in The Colonies, too. I budget for a Sov or a 1/4th Gold coin each month. It's hard to beat the Britannia, and the deals have been excellent this year. I find the pinkish color of newer Sovs particularly nice.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oz8Y6-8dJk0.html - my latest video taking a closer look at the 2022 Gold Sovereign (a bit different to a usual Sovereign!)

Both beautiful coins! Very nice! 👍

Brilliant vids sir, keep them coming!

1. Do you worry about buying graded coins or it doesn’t really matter as long as you buy from a reputable dealer? 2. If buying non-graded, how best to store them? I see these lovely cases of yours and wonder where you get them from? Are they very protective long-term? Thank you.

I’m a coin nerd in general, I like the Britannias and the sovereigns very much! Of course I love pre33 US gold as well. Great video!

Loving these comparison videos. Keep em coming mate. I really thought the 1oz would be much less, as like you said it’s more gold.

Sadly the Royal Mint has released a 2023 dated Britannia showing the late QE!! who died in 2022. Very poor taste. The gold should have been recyched to show the new king.

This is a fantastic quantitative illustration! Very useful thank you. Keep up these informative videos.

2.8% premum on Britannas, and 5% premum on Sovereigns on 7/4/2024 based on Atkinson's Prices, the Britannia is definitely a better deal

Yeah, I would have thought the 1oz would have had a lower premium as they are less liquid. How time flies. It doesn't seem long ago that i was buying Sovs for £170 & half Sovs for £90.

Thanks. Useful to know. I had wondered about that myself and also expected the larger coin would be more cost effective. Given this information, I think I'll stick with my usual sovereigns as they have the great advantage of being more flexible, as smaller units, in terms of selling for cash.

WOW, at that percentage, I would buy 4 Sovs instead of a Brit.

Any help on what site to order gold and silver coins from please, I live in West London I tried the royal mint website the other day but my bank diddnt seem to trust it so I just left it 🤷‍♂️😄

New Subscriber here. Great Info. Thank You Metal Head. I really love both of these coins.

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Way closer than I thought! The Sovereign is excellent value. Great video mate :)

£1.2k an ounce... take us all back!

The problem is that it is not just intrinsic value- there is a collector value as well. Different years have different prices. Even the most common of each will have a different collector 'add-on'. That is why 1oz gold bars are usually slightly cheaper than 1oz coins.

I collect Sovereigns here in the US. I love them. I only own one Britannia. I would rather stack Eagles or Maples than Britannias, but I adore Sovereigns. There is something just magical. I own coins with Queen Victoria and George and Edward and the recently departed Queen Elizabeth. Here, I can often get Sovereigns at or close to melt. For Maples I pay $100 premium. For eagles I pay more like $120-$150. Sovereigns are the better choice (my last Elizabeth was $6 ($25 per oz) over melt. So I love sovereigns. So even in the US Sovereigns are the best, but these are all used.

As of watching this a year on, anyone else noticed the premiums on sovereigns have got higher and premiums on britannias have got lower?

Isn't a Sovereign worth less 22 carat gold ? And a Britannia 24 carat? So the calculation is wrong?

Those are some cheap gold prices you wrote their.

Would you say the Gold Sovereign 2022 coin is ok to buy and hold? I see prices are way up from February 2022 by around £30 ish. Everything similar is £360 min.

Great video. I'm back to buying sovereigns just now, reason is thus: I can buy 4 for the price of a Brittania. However, were I to sell immediately then I would lose more selling the 1 Brittania than I would 4 sovereigns as right now I can buy sovereigns at £325 and sell them for £312 at my local dealer.

What about a coin that is rare (as the mintage is 250 or less). It would be £1150 over the spot price. In other words the coin is £2995.00 and the rate of gold on that day is £1850 gbp. Is this coin worth it?

£1290 Vs today price of £1720

I like your videos and obviously I know they’re a couple of years old now I’m thinking of buying some gold sovereigns or Britannia one of your other video seems to contradict the findings on this one and I wondered if the premiums are much different buying from the Royal Mint rather than one of the other gold retail specialist. do you have any views or advice and have you ever done the video or considered one which you show the process of selling one or 2 ounces and how much loss is made based on the premium? Plus how do you go about trying to sell something, do you just put it on eBay. How do people prove authenticity, and if I wanted to prove authenticity of some Britannia I’ve got should I own some specialist weighing scales or some kind of chemical thing that detects improves whether something is gold or not? The last thing I really want to do is break it open the capsules start rubbing things on the coins but it is something I think about. I’ve got a small amount right now but I’m considering making a hefty purchase because I’m fed up inflation reducing my savings. Best regards.

Wow very nice gold coins❤❤❤🙏🙏

Atkinsons do a much better deal than Bbp.

the premium is higher on the quarter oz britania , the sogv is a quarter oz . so thats why the premium is like that . if you compare the quarter brit to the sogv you will get a more honest output . premiums on oz coins are always less than the fractural coins .

I like the Australian sovereigns some dates increase the values go the mighty sovereigns !

New subscriber here. I started stacking a months ago mainly silver Britannia. But i wondering is it best to start gathering gold sov or stick to a few brits a month rather than 1 sov every 2 months im from the uk also.

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Great video, I was once told that its better to buy coins rather then bars because coins have an old date on them so if anyone ask where you got it from you can say my grandad gave it to me 20 years ago, is that correct?

There is not alot in it regarding premiums, the 1oz 24ct brit has about the same, but being over 4 x in size of that of a 22ct sov, it's more to initially pay out. If you compare a 1/4oz brit with a sov, maybe the sov would be the better option, more recognisable too.

Thank you

Good work! Thanks. Think it's difficult to get a perfect thought and math on this as also some are 22k and others be 24k...end of the day it's just important that you, as an individual know what and why one buys their choice of savings. And the more we share with each other the more we can learn and improve strategies

I thought that sovereigns were 22ct, as opposed to 24ct for the Britannia , so I am not sure your maths are correct? Am I wrong?

Why not put your money in an ISA and not lose your money. A 7% loss for every coin imo is barmy. What's the monetary gain in stacking or is just the notion "if you don't hold it you don't own it" which i'm guessing the phrase was created by a very savvy bullion dealer. Or does every stacker just love collecting coins in which case i totally understand. But as for saving for a nest egg a savings account even with 0% intrest rate totally trumps stacking.

Do i detect a Brummie accent ?

What you didn't mention is the sovs are 22c and the Brit is 24c a much purer gold content.

Nice video, BUT, your “intrinsic value” for the sovereign in terms of pure gold content is incorrect. Sovereigns are only 22 Karat gold not 24 Karat, so the correct “intrinsic value” for the Sovereign is really only $278.50, not $303. This of course means the premium is a much higher %age. The 1 ounce Britannia’s are 24Karat .999 fine pure gold so your calculations on that one are correct. Based on this, the 1ounce Britannia’s are far better value from a premium perspective. The devil is always in the details. 😉👍🇦🇺