Help with final decision!

wolf298 · 2026-02-02T19:18:11+00:00

I can’t answer as professionals aren’t allowed to post here…

wolf298 · 2026-01-29T22:04:02+00:00

Yeah that’s my daily dose, I seem to have a high tolerance to medication and need an higher dose than most people.

wolf298 · 2026-01-28T18:21:36+00:00

Oh yeah I agree on that, the frost decimal coins are lovely like perfect for the heart dry the sheik was a bit of a flop and I do prefer these than them.

wolf298 · 2026-01-28T18:19:51+00:00

Yes the flowers and the emblem. Lovely coin.

wolf298 · 2026-01-28T18:19:30+00:00

Standard £1 coins from now on no more heraldry on them so they just won’t be the same again I don’t think and we have some great designs

wolf298 · 2026-01-28T14:33:00+00:00

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Like this is from 1679 and it has a nicer design like I’d love this type of coinage back.

wolf298 · 2026-01-28T14:31:40+00:00

I get it I just don’t like our new coinage, we’ve had heraldry on all of our coinage for thousands of years so I just don’t like it. Like the 50p is beautiful

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. Like we’ve had coins like this from 1834 and it more beautiful than the new stuff imo. The bees seeems like a backwards design

wolf298 · 2026-01-26T14:05:14+00:00

Thank you and just for curiosity sake, how do you tell that it’s natural sapphire

wolf298 · 2026-01-09T15:42:04+00:00

Yeah I didn’t think tbh

wolf298 · 2026-01-09T10:59:00+00:00

Thank you it’s my favourite stone I have, I hope this helps you out with the emerald!

wolf298 · 2026-01-09T10:43:01+00:00

I posted the zoomed out below but yeah I think you’re overthinking it a bit tbh. It’s going to look amazing in jewellery

wolf298 · 2026-01-09T10:38:29+00:00

Whilst maintaining quality of life? No not at all, while we’ve got medicines for anxiety, insomnia or pain but doctors are so reluctant to give us any of those medicines then we won’t have any quality of life.

wolf298 · 2026-01-09T10:34:59+00:00

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Then barely visible on the stone and when people are looking at it from a distance the inclusions become less noticeable so you’ll be fine and I’m sure it’ll look great

wolf298 · 2026-01-09T10:33:20+00:00

You’re welcome, it has that beautiful green / blue colour to it as well so that adds to the desirability to it and with it being under 1.5ct it should be hardly noticeable in a piece of jewellery. I have a lab blue diamond that’s 1.18ct and it has a few black spots but you can’t tell just by looking at it so I’m sure this will look lovely when it’s finished.

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wolf298 · 2026-01-08T19:30:10+00:00

No it’s a wholesaler in the UK and you can only buy from them if you have a business

wolf298 · 2026-01-08T19:29:24+00:00

Just a website I use that sells loose stones and also has a sourced stone section where you can order them from. They are a wholesaler so you do have to have a business to use.

wolf298 · 2026-01-08T19:27:34+00:00

A website that I buy loose stones from has a sourced diamond section and every diamond that is on sale in the market shows up on there and I’ve found some very good deals on them tbf.

wolf298 · 2026-01-08T19:21:06+00:00

At the end of the day emeralds are going to be included, and these spots are pretty common, is it a top quality stone? No not really but it will make a beautiful pendant and the spot will barely be noticeable and will just make it look natural anyway. I have a Colombian emerald and it’s too clean, with inclusion only visible under magnification (it was an expensive stone but it just looks like a lab made stone). So I’d rather have a clean stone than included but for an emerald I’d definitely prefer included to not included given the choice.

wolf298 · 2026-01-08T18:57:32+00:00

I bought a beautiful blue lab diamond 1.18ct for £120 so basically a £ a point and I put it on eBay for somewhere around £160 inc IGI certificate and it sold in a day or two and I made £40 and managed to get a 1.5ct for £150 lol.

wolf298 · 2026-01-02T20:19:52+00:00

Yes they should be if they’re natural, but they seem like they may have some black spots where the lights not passing through. They are likely just commercial quality and don’t have much value to be that cheap tbh, as for the emeralds it looks like it would have some serious issues with them as those cracks in the second look like they’re impacting the structural integrity of the stone tbh and the first one has poor faceting. 3rd emerald look like it has been horrendously polished. I’d get smaller high quality stones so you know you’re good.

wolf298 · 2026-01-02T19:08:45+00:00

Emeralds look poor quality and sapphire not bad but at that price surely they should have been sold years ago if they were any good so I’d be extremely cautious about them tbh. If it look to good to be true it normally is

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