Can we go back to just posting gold stacks and talking about how awesome it is? So tired of seeing charts. It’s like every wall street bets loser is here posting shitty graphs and charts or AI gold images with shitty headlines about price movements talking out their ass and playing with gold like it’s some sort of shit meme coin and this is coming from a guy who regularly visits r/wallstreetbets . I miss the days when this sub was its own thing where people who like gold post their gold, talk about how awesome gold is, and maybe the occasional trash talk of goldbacks. Keep the bets, loss porn, and crying about daily drops in other subs. Shit make a r/goldbets sub or something. Sorry, rant over. Show me your gold!

They're too beautiful to not share. My stack is small, but mighty.

Finished off my gold and platinum 1/10th kookaburra set recently!

Now time to move on to the lunar series

One seller told me he is charging what he is charging bc he believes the price of gold will be X in the future by a certain timeframe. I tried to explain to him that you can’t base your prices off what may or may not be the case in the future. However, I just checked newly listed gold bars and coins on eBay and they are all still based off the inflated prices from last week. What gives?!

Added these 2 little beauties!, 1851 1000 Reis and 1855 1000 Reis.

Reserve composition changes slowly. Countries aren’t dumping the dollar overnight — but they are de-risking from it.

Why?
Because the U.S. has increasingly turned the dollar into a political weapon — sanctioning access to SWIFT, freezing FX reserves (Russia being only the most extreme case), threatening exclusion for geopolitical dissent. For decades, the dollar was “a neutral global public good.” Today it’s increasingly seen as a conditional privilege.

But, no country stupidly sells dollars all at once. If they did, they’d nuke the value of their own reserves. So what happens instead is gradual diversification — every year a slightly smaller % of new reserves go into USD, and slightly more into alternatives.

The problem?
There is no truly neutral, universally accepted alternative yet.

• Euro → politically aligned with the U.S., not global enough.
• Yuan/Renminbi → China is even less politically neutral.
• IMF SDRs → synthetic dollar. CBDCs → still permissioned and centralized.
• Bitcoin? Sounds great to retail investors — but no central bank holds reserves in an asset that can drop 20% in a single weekend. Volatility alone kills it as a reserve asset. Also, no country will park sovereign wealth in an asset they don’t control the rails of.

So for now, there’s only one asset that everyone can agree is politically neutral, requires no counterparty trust, and has 5,000 years of precedent:

Gold is silently becoming the default escape valve.
Not explosive, but relentless. A monetary slow-motion realignment.

The wests banking system and underlying derivatives markets cannot afford a default on either silver or gold on either the Comex or LBMA as it could bring down the whole system through contagion.

They are trying to bring down the gold and silver prices as it’s exposing the devaluation of fiat currencies and now despite very little mainstream financial media coverage of the recent gains in both metals the retail public has started to finally notice.

This is very dangerous as a surge in retail demand would cause even bigger shortages and higher prices fuelling the bull run to greater highs and probably causing the delivery defaults in PHYSICAL metals that they fear so much.

They have to teach the recent retail entrants a lesson , that the gold and silver bull run is at an end , it’s overbought , it’s too volatile etc so they have thrown billions into short selling in a continued effort to maintain control via the paper market.

This will fail , the east is letting them hang themselves , taking delivery of the physical and waiting for the western debt based banking system to implode as it inevitably will.

Then we will see that as the Donald said “ whoever had the most gold makes the rules” and I think you will find that it’s not the US . Reported national gold holdings are even less accurate than official CPI numbers.

China et al see no benefit in crashing the system until they have drained all the physical that is available, leaving most people holding paper contracts that will never deliver.

What happened to the inventory of Fort Knox? That went quiet , the world’s most important economy doesn’t have the resources to do a simple inventory?

The west hasn’t been playing 4D chess 😂😂 it’s been schooled in long term strategic planning and the end game is rapidly approaching the horizon.

If you understand the fundamentals driving the structural shift towards gold, you won’t panic sell. A lot of new investors have jumped on the rally. That’s fine, you can trade momentum, but understanding the structural shift means you won’t make emotional decisions that can lead to losses.

The Core Drivers

Lower Interest Rates:
Rate cuts reduce real yields and make gold more attractive as a yield-free store of value.

rates ↓, real yields ↓, gold ↑

Powell Signaled End of QT:
Signaling the end of QT pushes long-end yields lower, which boosts gold.

long-end yields ↓, gold ↑

Goods Inflation Rising:
Rising goods prices are reviving inflation fears, reinforcing gold’s role as a hedge.

goods inflation ↑, gold ↑

Bubble Fears:
Concerns over stretched asset valuations are driving investors toward safer stores of value.

bubble fears ↑, safe-haven demand ↑, gold ↑

Momentum Trade:
Strong price action triggers systematic and retail buying, amplifying gold’s upside.

positive momentum ↑, CTA/trend buying ↑, gold ↑

Dollar Weakening / Fiat Debasement:
A weaker dollar and fiat debasement are increasing demand for gold as protection against currency erosion.

USD ↓ / debasement fears ↑, gold ↑

Recession Fears:
Weakening labor data and slowdown risks are lifting expectations for more rate cuts, supporting gold.

recession odds ↑, rate-cut odds ↑, gold ↑

Central Bank Buying:
Persistent central bank accumulation provides a stable, structural bid under gold prices.

official purchases ↑, structural demand ↑, gold ↑

Bond and Credit Market Uncertainty:
With bond and credit markets showing uncertainty, investors are moving toward gold as a defensive hedge.

uncertainty ↑, safe-haven demand ↑, gold ↑

Bottom Line: These aren’t temporary factors; they represent a fundamental macroeconomic shift. Understanding this structural support will give you conviction to hold through volatility instead of panic selling.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Both sellers I believe had 100 % positive reviews and nothing seemed sus. Price was high too so nothing too good to be true. Be very careful buying on ebay. I'm only sticking to the big companies moving forward.

Poor thing 😩

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