CollectorNo1

Well for me this is the coin off the year. I dont really get excited by bullion minted coins anymore but this one has me all hot and flustered 😂 Absolute BELTER of a coin from Minting to presentation 

Well, my half has arrived....
Low and behold the capsule was open AGAIN.

A follow up email has been sent to the Exec team at The Royal Mint 
FORTUNATLEY 
Under 7x magnification it looks pretty perfect so am feeling pretty lucky
Another annoying thing is that there was a QC sticker ON THE CAPSULE!

This left a dirty smudge which after a bit of elbow grease came off but still - the sheer irony of a QC sticker being ON THE CAPSULE and the capsule being loose is hilarious. 
Let me tell you, I am eagerly awaiting the outcome of my emails to the exec office!

Now, some lovely photos of the half!


 

I don’t know if this would help anyone still waiting for payment to be taken or waiting for their coins, but on my delivery note it says,
‘Thank you for your order, please note that if additional items were included with this order they will follow shortly. The total amount is taken when your first product is despatched.’

Yet another piece of Napoleonic silver - this time Italian 1811M 2 Lire - much better than the grade suggests, clean fields and lots of lustre. Might have regraded!
 

Fingers crossed.....

Ive had an email saying Ive got a delivery from the RM tomorrow, BUT ive no idea what it is.
My Full sovereigns has completely disappeared off the system, and my 3 coin set is still in open orders.

You know, the more I look at this coin design the more I love it.
It really is so very elegant and special.
I'm an investor in collectables....this will be a hard one to let go one day.

I always try to source items from inside the UE (better for my wallet), LPM is a last resort due to VAT (19% here in Romania) and high shipping cost (65 $/Fedex). Fedex also ask for 20$ for import fees.
 
Payment on LPM is only possible in USD or HKD
 

Hi.
Just wanted to ask, is it easy buying from LPM. I was wondering about the port duties and taxes onto of the cost of the coins purchased from them.
Thankyou.

I wish they let us sign up for the whole series like with the tudor beast and Sovereigns, would have saved a load of stress 🤣 no option with the three graces!   

I do hope you all receive your orders eventually, because this coin in hand is amazing!
Received my 5 coin set yesterday and have had a good look and very happy, seems to me to be about as perfect as you can expect.
The Quintuple Sovereign is something special!!
I am no expert, but surely no coin is absolutely perfect. I look at a coin with the naked eye, then with a loupe 5x maginfication. If there are no discernable marks, scratches etc.. the coin will have a good chance of getting a PF or PR 70,if grading is your thing. Personally I do not have any coins graded.
Anyhow, I feel very lucky to have this set.
It will be worth the wait!

Will you keep??

As I mentioned on the previous page, I was told they minted a certain % of the total number and now have to play catch up actually minting the full number…etc etc….I was told by January and probably before Christmas by one fella on customer services.
What I now have is images of part time minimum wage yoofs who dont care being hired for a few weeks to stuff the coins into the boxes without care……yikes ! Hope that is not true because that is the only part of the process The Royal Mint do not show us on their glossy magazines or flash youtube videos…..making me immediately suspicious.
 
If enough customers demanded to know the packaging process and more importantly, by whom (!) when they have a “hit” on their hands, we might get to see the truth.

This is becoming a joke. They told me mine would be dispatched within the next couple of days.
Awaiting stock? From where, Narnia.

I just come off the phone from the RM they said another 10 days as awaiting stock??????🤔🤔🤔

I just come off the phone from the RM they said another 10 days as awaiting stock??????🤔🤔🤔

I just come off the phone from the RM they said another 10 days as awaiting stock??????🤔🤔🤔

And that short clip I posted the other day was taken on a £14 microscope thing  
I still love the look of the mirrored surface up this close.
Video:

kden2.mp4  

Hope not or it would have been a struggle getting it home😁

2021 Niue - Star wars - Mandalorian - Grogu Baby Yoda



2021 Mongolia - Evolution of Life - Hominidae
 

And then there were 5. The quintuple is a stunner, the pic doesn’t do it justice. Will get these graded and into my long term collection. I have a few Ghanaian coins on the way from a couple of auctions but apart from that its pencils down for gold for a while (well, until the SOTD 😏)

It not so much that it doesn't milk spot ,but more the fact that it's not as heavily polished so less noticeable if at all.

Unfortunately mine developed milkspots....😒😒😒😒😒 hence know more silver for me.

What an excellent idea 👏 , very fair offer from @BackyardBullion too.
 I'll start a 2022 swap shop thread

So, from what I understand they always hold a few back - but really we are talking single digits here. 
Most of the replacements will come out of the pool of coins returned. 
One would hope that the QC department might take it seriously and maybe mix and match to get full sets of good coins. 
The remaining dud coins should, in my opinion, be melted down and reminted. 
Certainly in the case of the quintuple sovereign and the 5 coin set. £4795 issue price, you really should be getting as good a coin to the naked eye as possible. Clearly visible scratches/marks should not exist. If there are issues at 5x magnification to get a PF68 or PF69 grade, that is fine by me - I just want something that has nothing visibly wrong with it from the naked eye as I do not plan to grade this set.