paulmerton

Oh nice, I didn't realise the 10oz bars came in the (very expensive separately) capsules now.

I cannot find anything with this pair of obverse and reverse.

An amazing array of graded US silver I got from here!

Another chunky bit of silver (piedfort) that cost less than the non-piedfort version I originally bought 🤦‍♂️

Another little Denarius. Very grateful if anyone can tell me exactly what this one is!

I would have just gone for the Buy It Now if eBay hadn't stopped you from using nectar points in the coins category 🤣

You seem very obsessed with milkspots!

I only have some bashed up ones where you can barely see the edge inscription, let alone make out which was up it goes 🤣

This is brilliant and you clearly know your way around these coins. Which leads me to ask something I've been wondering - are the edge inscriptions always the same way up on these coins? It's a bit of a joke in circulating £2 coin land that people try and sell coins that have "upside-down edge inscriptions" on eBay for hundreds of pounds without realising that there is a 50/50 chance of it being either way up. The edge inscriptions are added during the rimming of the blanks, so the orientation depends purely on which side up they are when they fall out of the hopper that feeds the striking machine. I have no idea how there came to be such a widespread misconception that the text must be upright when looking at the obverse, but that's what most of these eBay listings seem to claim. Due to the way these new 2024 St George and the Dragon coins are made, I would expect every edge inscription to be the same way up, thus there would actually be a "correct way up" and it would be impossible for any to be upside down. (I could be wrong, but that's my understanding) Is there a correct way up for edge inscriptions on the 1818-1820 coins, or could the special collars have been used either way up? If you have enough of these coins floating around, it would be interesting to see some stats

Decent condition is subjective - some people might expect that to cost several hundred quid. Meanwhile I would have been very happy to win the £40 one I missed last week 🤣

I could have because I got through in a flash, without even seeing a queue number. But quite frankly my balls weren't big enough to take such a plunge!

0% currently, surely?!

They've been using this design on the 2022 and 2023 £5 proof coins that were exclusive to the shop at the Royal Mint Experience.

I thought NGC had already solved this?

People who want to make a profit want the low mintage numbers. People who simply want to be able to have the coin appreciate the larger mintage numbers.

Same logo as on many of their trial pieces too.

It looks like it, although some kind of token rather than a coin.

It's the unscrupulous ones you should worry about!

Just something I saw lying around at the mint!

They still possess the technology there!

Actual hammered coins would have been an amazing thing. Each one completely unique... I also don't think there could have been any quibbles about quality 🤣

That's the 2023 set. A better choice than the 2024 set though, I'd say!

Have they? The 75th birthday coin still hasn't sold out yet either nor the RNLI one.

You can't get that particular coin from any sets, which is the reason why it's so sought after - the circulating coins are the only way you can get hold of a 2023-dated Atlantic salmon 50p that doesn't have a privy mark on it.

I enjoy some of the ridiculous ill-researched news articles that pop up every now and then, typically things like "50p sells for £8000 on eBay", but this pointless article goes to the other extreme! https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/24128418.royal-mint-olympic-2012-wrestling-coin-sells-tidy-profit/ Emphasis mine: A Worcester seller has sold their Olympics 2012 wrestling 50p coin for a huge sum on eBay. The coin is one of the rarest London 2012 Olympics coins, which Roderick Enriquez designed after Royal Mint held a coin-design competition. The Worcester seller sold the coin for £7 - 14x its face value. The buyer also had to fork out £1.30 for postage.