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RM have now issued embargo information so I am not allowed to say much, but the mintages are low, and release is a few weeks away yet.

I think you are right to be picky with what you buy, the market for modern coins is not in the place it was a couple of years ago. Its not helped by RM churning out new releases every 5 mins. The problem the petition crown had is that its not that well known unless you are an avid collector, and TBH it looks better in silver than gold. RM were daft to release it as a 2 coin set, whether you are a silver or gold collector, it was a big chunk to pay out. This new coin has a wel known design, it looks good in both silver and gold, and its going to be a single coin release, so my view be if this doesn't do reasonably well, nothing will in this market??

I have checked today, there is still no official word to dealers on release date or mintages, the only word out in the public domain is that mailshot RM sent out last week. In theory prooviding RM follow their own protocol, we are at least 2 weeks if not a month away from seeing these released.

Nope..

I am sure I can see a weak bar :

I don't think so, there looks be bar in both 'A's

Its a difficult game, I have tried to play cat & mouse with new issues over the years, if there is an embargo date for coin information, officially I cannot even tell people the coin is going to exist, let alone the embargo date which would generally give away the release date as well. However information already in the public domain such as the proclamations and anything RM give away is fair game. I am not allowed to take pre-orders, but can ask for people to register their interest for a known release such as the great engravers, what that really means is that you can have one, but can't pay for it until the day of release.

Naturally, they would have off loaded as many of the remaining coins to dealers, so sales could continue after 31/12/23, I don't know but I suspect they will have been offering good discounts to get shot of the stuff?

RM dealers are given a data sheet of any new coin due out, that gives embargo dates for the information and when the coin will / can be sold, sometimes they are the same date. On some issues you get information or the chance to register your interest in advance, and others just appear for sale out of the blue, on the great engravers RM have announced the coin prior to sending any information to their dealers. So at this time there is nothing to embargo, all the information known is in the public domain .

Certain;y not Monday, the issue is still a couple of weeks away, the Mint has not yet issued its embargo to dealers giving prices and mintages etc.

It's interesting that the Mint sent out the 'register now' email before telling any of their dealers of the release, so I don't think the coins are due for a few weeks? We are inviting our customers to register their interest in these as we do expect to get some form of allocation. I don't think the Mint would burn their fingers again with a 2 coin set after the last time, so this will surely be as above 1818 crown reverse with Charles III 2024 obverse.

This looks to be C over rotated C, and as you can see quite messy compared to your original type 1 example.

I had a close look at this (second coin), but I can't confirm it as a C over rotated C TBH, there looks to be overstriking of V - I and C almost back inline with the rest of the letters struck correctly. Although there does appear to be a possible tail on the C it doesn't really suggest that this coin is anything special. Coin 1 is a classic C over rotated C, and actually quite neat compared to some of the bodge jobs I have seen with these.

I am still with the Rabbit over 4 TBH 😀

I am pretty confident this is the next coin in the great engravers series. It looks to be based on the Crown with edge inscription relating to 2nd year of Charles III reign. The gold coins are 999.9 gold and the big givaway is that there is no gold 1 ounce version 👍

Happy Christmas to you all. I wonder what the forum makes of this date error in my 1847 sovereign, any ideas?

Its certainly 60's 2nd bust, it does look like a 7? I know some on here like there modern coins, but just to hold a peice like this, you can almost feel the history.

I didn't know what SSC meant until I got this coin : "SCC" represents the "South Sea Company" that supplied large quantities of silver to the mint in return for the right to export money overseas. They totally over speculated this position, eventually causing the company to go bust. - interesting story for anyone who wants to read up on it.

We have a 1677 half crown : To think, this is just 12yrs after the Great Plague and 11yrs after the Fire of London, perhaps it was there?

This doesn't look like an error to me at first glance. Has this coin been previously in a mount?

It wasn't me, but in this grade NVF I would say £700-£900 is a realistic value.

I would say it is a Roman I: (If no one buys it this afternoon, I will this evening)

Here is the classic 'A' in Victoria 1880S Shield Sovereign:

Can I ask how much, I have a customer looking fo a box for the tudors.