auleAboutNumismatics

19 hours ago, paulmerton said:

Just landed! The one in a capsule is a double.

I was controlling myself to look only at the 1sovereign at RM site, but now i am tempted to also complete the set 😅 They look really nice together.

I understand that they are bullion coins, how is the condition of the coins in blister pack? Maybe the pursuit for MS70 starts

3 minutes ago, AppleZippoandMetronome said:

For those wondering about the SOTD sov

Sold out??

1 hour ago, NewCoins said:

Maybe this

https://www.royalmint.com/aboutus/press-centre/the-royal-mint-unveils-commemorative-coins-for-the-queens-platinum-jubilee/

Many thanks!

Only the 1/4 Oz gold version seems interesting to me, maybe due to resemblance to a sov size, yellow gold and nice mintage.

Any mintage information on the different design and variants yet?

There are so many types that it is becoming confusing... 😅

1 hour ago, Gordy said:

Couple of new Lunars arrived today... 

Nice Bhutan coin, the coat of arm is fabulous...

Thanks! 6th Feb is a Sunday, does the Royal Mint also launch new item on weekends?

My 2oz silver finally arrived after more than a week in transit! It came in with slightly opened capsule, and thankfully the coin is okay and being hold on one side of the capsule.

First impression: I thought the shield would be fully frosted after seeing all the picture, but the one i see seems to give a gradiant kind of frosting which is quite nice. It has more on the edge and almost no frosting at the centre, the lions are frosted though.

If the 2022 sovereign comes with a special Platinum Jubilee edition certicard / blister pack, that might be nice.

9 hours ago, RiverbankSilver said:

Well my coin never turned up when it was due yesterday 😞 Anxious times.

Tracking doesn’t make much sense either.  Despatched from Birmingham to my town at 4am yesterday morning, then received back at Birmingham at 5am (hr later)that same morning  🤔not moved since.

Anything with the word ‘Royal’ in at the moment is giving me anxiety 😟 

 

I am looking with envy at all the pictures posted here, especially the gold version with the wonderful satiny finish. 

my 2oz silver is despatched on wednesday, but RoyalMail tracking still showing in transit from Cardiff MC to royal mail site for international shipment. I wonder why the transit from Cardiff MC to another royal mail site took so long since wednesday... 😅

2 hours ago, FlorinCollector said:

@auleAboutNumismatics From my experience the -1 is a cancelled order. Did you try order just the coated arms and the continuity?

It is for the continuity version. And now it got moved to closed order. Seems all good now  

I now have an order added with extension of -1 (i.e. E-116xxxxx-1) for my continuity silver coin order, and stating only the quartered arms. Anyone see similar thing?

If i see a pending charges already at my credit card, does it mean the order is confirmed?

I am still quite confused how the "Gothic Crown Quartered Arms and Portrait 2021 UK 2oz Silver Proof" works.

Does this means i will automatically get a reserved QV Portrait version when it is released next year? It is quite hectic and i just added it without thinking much... 😉 

Here is some mintage information, from https://agaunews.com/the-royal-mints-retrospective-of-william-wyon-continues-with-gothic-crown-the-third-great-engravers-release/

Hope i am lucky enough to get one...

Any news if it is going to be launching first the Queen Victoria or Shield design as reverse?

While waiting for the queue at RM, here are some mintage figures for the Sov and half sov...

https://agaunews.com/the-royal-mint-kicks-off-its-epic-queens-platinum-jubilee-colelction-with-an-all-new-design-for-the-classic-sovereign/

Register your interest now... Although, we all know that the mail may come after everything is sold out

https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/events/the-great-engravers/gothic-crown/

"The Great Engravers Collection continues with the first of two coins paying homage to the Gothic Crown, one of the most beautiful coins ever struck by
The Royal Mint. Sign up below to be one of the first to hear about our upcoming release."

From the info on RM webpage, it seems that they will release 2 designs separately (?)...

6 hours ago, richatthecroft said:

Received some excellent Grading results today from NGC.  

A big thank you to @SilverMike for helping me appraise the older Sovereigns and crucially, encouraging me to submit them for grading, despite my heavy resistance to separate them from the sets they came from.

My new favourite Sovereign in my collection is this 1911 Proof- PF64 Ultra Cameo 🤩- including this one, only 9 Graded UC by NGC and only 4 Graded DCAM by PCGS 😲   

 

Here's a 'before' photo of the 1911 Proof Sovereign 

 

And After:

 

 

The other results are pleasing too, the 1911's baby brother and the 1937 George VI Sovereign particularly 🤩 

 

 

Wow, such wonderful result! The 1911 proof almost looked like a different coin before and after.

The 1911 proof 1/2 Sov seems to have a strong frosting on the obverse.. Weird that NGC doesnt give it a cameo grade... but a PF64 Star is also great.

Had not noticed this before, what does it mean by a grained edge?? 

Thanks for the info. I am not 100% sure if they are exactly identical, as the SoTD is also of brilliant uncirculated. 
 

Was thinking it would be nice for my kid’s birth year  😄

The ones i have seen from seller are all opened for the pictures. i guess, it is not quite possible to grade them with the SoTD label now.😉 

Hi,

I am keen to look for a 2015 SOTD Sovereign (2nd May) and have it graded with NGC.

Not sure if this is discussed before; how does NGC differentiate the SOTD sovereign to the normal bullion version?

I have seen NGC census below with the royal birth SOTD...

2 minutes ago, Zhorro said:

I'm in a RM queue.  What am I queuing for?

100 years anniversary insulin coin...

5 hours ago, Zhorro said:

My Una and the Lion Christmas Tree decoration arrived this morning.  I could always wear it as a medallion!

 Nice. Is it identical on both sides of the Christmas decoration / medal? 

Some offerings are now out in the catalogue.

For some reason, at a first glance, i thought it looks like a coronavirus privy

20 hours ago, westminstrel said:

Yep! 👌🏼

By the way, is the aule in your name a Tolkien reference? 🙂

Not really, it was a username created out of family names combination. But i do see the Tolkien reference after the username creation 😉

Back to the topic, i could imagine different mints releasing its own version of celebration 'Sovereign' next year though...

3 hours ago, westminstrel said:

The way I see it, the Platinum Jubilee will be a celebration of HM’s long and remarkable reign. The first of its kind in history. I personally think it would be more appropriate to celebrate the occasion with a portrait that honours HM’s remarkable age too.

Who knows… they could do two Sovereigns, each with a different portrait… as has been suggested elsewhere. To me that would be straying into gimmicky territory.

Just keep it simple and classy with one memorable Sovereign, I say! 😀

I also prefer a single, representative sovereign design for this celebration.

Leave the gimmicky ideas / varieties to the other product range