Divmad

Out of interest, how many minutes, it seconds even, does it take to make a SOTD bullion sovereign?

LOL. My mistake. Whatever. It's the KCIII Brits I am seeking to replace.

I would like to replace the 6 Brits I gave to my grandchildren this last Easter to get them started with coin collecting. I am willing to pay £25 + postage, each, for good condition coins with no marks etc. Usual payment terms.

Is it possible still, to buy decent grade pre-1947 half crowns and florins at or around spot?

Ok, I'll buy 50 X 1st Class stamps at 74p each = £37. But I'd like to buy 50 X 2nd Class also in the same package. What price for those?

I thought all non-bar coded UK stamps will cease to be valid at end of June this year.

I wish I had seen this topic earlier.

Still not convinced. Mintage and edge, sure. But they lack the broad appeal of a proof coin, being available only to a select few punters who can afford the hefty premiums that the RM dare charge for the experience.

I don't get the appeal of these so-called SOTD variants. Why should a SOTD coin, be it a sovereign or a lowly 50p coin, be more sought after than, say, a Struck on the Day After, coin? It's the same design, same denomination, same metal make up....

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Can I buy 6 please?

£132

£127

One careful owner, now selling. Comes in the original Harrington and Byrne pouch, and capsule, from purchase. £420 + S.D. £7.75. Bank transfer preferred.

You can get total dross pre-1947 at spot, yes, but anything else is going for crazy premiums there. Quite different from a year ago.

Isn't the current fad for QEII Gillicks, a modern variant on the Shield craze? I can't see why, personally. Surely, premiums over spot come with relative scarcity of a"type", which may be linked to design, but more probably mintages, so my thinking is that the occasional special issue sovereigns will justify their premiums over time. KCII Memorials, anyone?

I've just been going through various pages on Google about the next Coronation coin offerings, and getting totally confused. It seems like every man, or island, and his dog will be using some sort of "Buckingham Palace approved" coin. But which is the main one to collect, the one with lasting appeal to the widest audience? I can't see any reference yet in the Royal Mint site to a £5 silver crown coin, but surely this should be the mainstay of the forthcoming event from a coin collectors point of view?

Out of interest, are these 2023 Brits already selling at a premium over COVID and 2021, 2022 ones, thus demonstrating your scarcity thesis?

No worries. No harm in asking! Good luck with your sale. They look excellent quality.

Do you have a 1932 SA mint for sale by any chance?

If that's yours, a nice example.

I've had this thought to collect circulated silver coins to represent European countries, as the "best", most iconic circulating coins of the last 170 years or so. From what I can see so far, the Godless Florin warrants inclusion, based on design, storyline and relative scarcity. What would other readers consider worthy of such an accolade?

I know it's still only March, but when in the calendar year does the current year Sovereign get approved, produced and issued to the public?

If folk like you all on TSF boycotted the Royal Mint sales of proof coins, maybe they would smarten up their act.

I've come across this Peace Dollar from when I naively bought it in the last Silver run up in 2008, bought from a UK seller online. Of course, now I realise that the grading company was all made up to inflate values, but I now want to sell this and quite a few others, Peace and Morgans, in this state. How best to? Should I try and get the coins out of the casing (how?) or sell them "as is"? The coins are all in good state but I don't suppose they are anything near the purported ones. MS64 in this case. Any opinions welcomed. Divmad