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Thank you very much.

Apparent marks and flecks are mostly a trick of the light, so far as my old eyes with 2x magnification can make out.

Excellent bullion condition Queens Beast. Dealers sell this - if they have one in stock at all - from £2300 upwards. I can offer mine at £1895 incl. RMSD, but only for a short time, otherwise it goes to Atkinsons (probably). If interested, please PM me and do not reply here. Photos now shown below. Thank you for reading this.

Fascinating stuff. Thank you.

None left now. That was a snip since elsewhere these are £460<480. Thank you.

Bargain of the decade.

Interesting about Shanghai, and a good question, to which I don't know the answer.

Dave is right. I have checked on the more detailed chart and the £1619 is a flat line from the close on Friday, so I'm afraid I was getting mildly excited about nothing!

It may not mean much (except to its own retail prices for the time being), but the price chart on the Royal Mint site shows £1619 (fix taken exactly an hour ago) whereas other dealers still show £1614 i.e. Friday's close. For once the Mint would appear to be ahead of the game. Presumably the higher price is taken from the markets in the Far East or Australia?

I don't know that this exactly qualifies, but at the least it seems to show that Bullion by Post is counting on the gullible to buy on ebay: it has the 2024 double sovereign on for £801 on its website but at £853 on ebay, where one has already been sold.

I love these coins.

Thank you very much. Otherwise I might have thought that the Mint was simply 'gaslighting' me. And, yes indeed, would the mole care to step forward and take a bow? This may be a useful, if rather minor, lesson for all of us i.e. you never know who might be watching and reading what we post. I recall vividly on a totally different forum (about shooting) how we were warned to be careful what we wrote because it was believed that one or more County Firearms Departments surreptitiously paid attention to the subject matter and opinions in the various posts, not all of which were entirely complimentary about said Firearms Departments or the state of current shooting law.

Well I never, the Mint has now sharply modified the picture to show the single sovereign without its streamer. I hope that someone saw what I saw originally and can testify to the fact. I wasn't making it up. Must be a Mint mole on this forum.

https://www.royalmint.com/sovereign/bullion/ This is the page, showing streamers on all four sovereigns, but just below there is an image of presumably the single sovereign with no streamer. The 'tacked-on' interpretation is my own because it looks as though the streamer must have been added artificially for those sovereigns that do not possess one as minted.