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I'm still not sure how a new sovereign coin, with the new sovereign's portrait and a new reverse can be considered a 'memorial'. Surely the fact of the matter is that it is the first Charles III sovereign coin. End of.

Thanks @StackSellRepeat for the 2010 1/4 oz and 2012 1/10th oz Chinese gold Pandas.
Bought these the same week I first saw the real thing!

Ahh this is nice. No precious metal, but better than that: 23 of the coins inside it are chocolate.

The 22ct gold the Mint uses is not only used for sovereigns, but for other gold proof coins, such as fifty pences, gold proof crowns, and some others. Precious Metals are not sourced directly through the LBMA, but through its members, with some possible non-members.
Gold for commercial and industrial use is usually refined into fine gold, typically 9999 fine, before being alloyed to its required fineness.
I have no special knowledge of the Royal Mint's purchasing policies for gold, but I believe it sources many of its "blanks" from third party suppliers. At this stage, the RM could presumably specify the alloy it desired. My belief, stated many times, is that at some point during QEII's reign, someone in the production department of the Mint wrongly assumed that being 22cat was sufficient, and that red gold alloyed only with copper, was perfectly acceptable, and probably a few pence cheaper. He may have believed that gold sovereigns, or crown gold was traditionally red, containing no silver.
It may also be that the original crown gold specifications did not include any any specific mention of silver, as almost all gold bullion available at the time would have contained a proportion of silver as an impurity, and was rarely, if ever fully or further refined to eliminate it, possibly because it was also known to help produce pleasantly yellow coloured alloys with good working properties.
At every possible opportunity I remind Royal Mint management of the above. I am sure some still do not know, others probably don't care, while the few who are aware may encounter similar resistance or inertia to that which I observe.
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I don’t think so.
Personally, I don’t see the beauty or value in coins pumped out by the RM.
Where they produce hits they are re hashes of previous brilliance (Wyon for example)
I might be being controversial, but I far prefer earlier Sovereigns and coins from gold rush Australia and America.
I feel the RM is too commercial, and not driven by artisans.

My five & four coin set - showing as dispatched !  
No tracking info or dispatched email as yet - hopefully to follow by the end of today 


Moved from "open orders" to "closed orders"
 

Definitely a few degrees.

Yes, just the same design as this one but they've changed the crown the lion is wearing over to Charles one, put up the price of the 1 sov by £100 and increased the mintage by 70%.
Any takers? 😀

Yes, just the same design as this one but they've changed the crown the lion is wearing over to Charles one, put up the price of the 1 sov by £100 and increased the mintage by 70%.
Any takers? 😀

Lunar III Rabbit 2023

Sooo..has the 2023 Sovereign design been revealed yet? 

Guess what??? 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The 4 set is back in stock.😉

We probably need to treat these figures carefully as this is generated by the RM systems to control stock that they have. There will be plenty of coins with dealers etc. that should also be taken from the numbers classes as sold - not all will have sold yet.
For example, with the full sovereign it is recorded that the Mint have 4281 which is calculated as meaning 13219 have sold. Some of those 13219 won’t yet have sold and will be sat in dealer stock.

I thought the elves at the Royal Mint worked for free? 😂

£25 million in sales in less than 24 hours!  even @arshimo2012 can't match that here with his always reasonable / forever flying out prices 

My approach to silver and gold has evolved over the years.
I started out as a stacker of the cheapest possible bullion (coins mostly) and was initially entirely disinterested in proof coins.
I now mostly stack / collect graded proof 1/4 oz gold, sovereigns etc, although my silver purchases still include a lot of 10 oz bars and junk silver.
Some observations for graded coins (in the UK):
Stick to Royal Mint coins, despite the frequent problems - many people will fawn over your lovely Libertads, but nobody will pay what you want for them.
Never pay RRP for proof gold 1/4 oz coins from the Mint - wait a couple of years and you will pick up the same coin (graded) for significantly less.
Always pay RRP for special design Sovereigns from the Mint - wait a couple of years and you will pick up the same coin (graded) for significantly more.
Silver - unless you get a PF70, the best you will do is get your money back.
Stop buying and grading proof silver coins (this is a message I really should listen to, but won’t).
 
 

Different privy every year just to troll those completionists 😀
I'm still in shock that you can get the five coin set from the Royal Mint (76 still available) and Chards, how that didn't sell out in 15mins flat is difficult to comprehend!

Still feel the Harry Potter coins remains to be the most successful this year.

Yes and it's tarnishing my enjoyment of the DVDs from one of my favourite childhood shows
Can't we call them Lassies or even (for the younger generation) Teletubbies?
I am guessing Mr Noseybonks may be too obscure (?)

Whats with all the?
 

2022 Niue - Fierce Nature - Tiger
 

2022 Niue - Scrooge McDuck - 75th Anniversary
 

2023 Australia - Kookaburra


 
 

The mintages are so high for the 1 sov you'd expect that to be one half of the set.
 

Ok
I'm logged into my RM account and got my birds pecking at F5 for next 16 hours keeping me signed in 

{sorted} 
 

They missed an opportunity to do a SOTD sovereign right there 😀