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After another week of waiting for them to respond, The Royal Mint eventually said that I could return my coin to have it re-packaged (presumably the correct way round!) Just getting this far has taken up a couple of hours of my time, but they haven't offered to do anything to make up for that. Do you think they should?

New Mahatma Gandhi 2021 coins now available on royalmint.com

What's wrong with it?? I see no milk spots

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-59151380

I already have one. Just sharing the bargains

https://www.sharpspixley.com/buy-bullion/buy-silver/silver-coins/2021-1kg-the-queens-beasts-completer-silver-coin Currently £855.48 inc VAT and delivery, and in stock. Seems a no-brainer, right?!

What I find funny about these sorts of bars are the people who buy them in preparation for when disaster strikes and the post apocalyptic society breaks down to such an extent that normal money doesn't work any more and you can only buy a loaf of bread by breaking a couple of bits off your silver combibar. If things really are that bad, there probably won't even be any bread to buy, and even if there is, who would actually accept a couple of small bits of metal that could be made of anything? The vast majority would have no idea what they are, what they're worth, or whether they are genuine. Trying to pay for anything in a post apocalyptic world by breaking a couple of bits off a combibar seems fraught with danger. A more likely outcome is that you'd get shanked by someone who then steals your whole bar. But in the meantime, they look cool 😃

You don't like the chap, then?

Looks like Jeremy Vine will be covering this on his Radio 2 show today.

... plus VAT.

Maybe it's yet another cunning ruse by RM to get you to spend more - the available alternatives are a 1/2oz silver proof Britannia and a 1/2oz gold bullion Britannia. The 10oz is nice, but I was disappointed that it lacked some of the security features that are present on all of the other sizes, even the 1/10oz. Maybe next year's will have them, if the larger size doesn't make the features too pointless (i.e easy to copy).

I stand corrected! - said the man in the orthopedic shoes.

Bullion and many other types of item aren't eligible for this cashback, so the Royal Mint will still be making a hefty profit on those proof markups and special 50 pence coins (I nearly said 50ps but didn't want to invoke the wrath of @LawrenceChard ).

I think he'd welcome it, as it would save him some time! From https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16521776/coin-collector-tesco-fuel-compensation-police/: "Dad-of-four Brett plans to spend the compo on more coins."

They probably do most of the time, but where would the headline be in that!

I think I would like "GOLD" on any coin, whatever the font is 🤣

That font and edge weighting looks like Hello Paris, with everything lowercase apart from the initial K. As for a contender, my choice may seem boring: I like the font, simplicity and spacing of "C A N A D A" at the top of the classic Canada Silver Maple Leaf. (no picture as I don't have one to hand - would inserting a Chards image be fair use?)

Valcambi pop-up shop opportunity

No, I don't think it is fake... ... although to be fair, I can't confirm it's genuine either! The ping you hear from a coin is not just a single frequency, it's made up of multiple frequencies, and those can often be used to distinguish different sizes, shapes and metals of coin - and also to confirm whether one is likely to be genuine. The Pingcoin app doesn't have a 1/2oz gold eagle in its library yet, but what I would do, @SlowFrog, is load the ping sound from that YouTube video into a sound editor like Audacity, and then record the ping from your own coin to compare. If you do a frequency spectrum analysis, you should see at least three significant spikes that line up in the same places for both pings if the coin is genuine. I imagine it would be ridiculously hard to produce a fake coin that passes this test.

Unless it's a fake gold coin made with a cupro-platinum core of the same density. Okay, probably never going to happen unless platinum really takes a dive Tungsten has a density very close to that of gold, which is why it's seen used in fake gold coins - or more likely in gold bars where drilled holes are plugged with tungsten slugs and capped with real gold so the bar still looks like pure gold and still weighs the same. However, tungsten is slightly magnetic so that can't be the case with this coin.

They are not listed on https://www.royalmint.com/invest/bullion/bullion-coins/silver-coins/, but Royal Mint seemingly has 25-coin tubes of the 2019 Royal Arms back in stock here: https://www.royalmint.com/invest/bullion/bullion-coins/silver-coins/royal-arms-2019-1oz-silver-twenty-five-coin-tube

They've published a short video about it now.

I don't think it suggests anything like there being a shortage. I think it's simply the case that if the cost of recovering a kilogram of gold from electrical equipment costs less than a kilogram of gold, then it's a no brainer - and presumably it does work out cheaper, because if it did cost more, they wouldn't be doing it! Umicore has already demonstrated it's a viable model.

You know you could use the like button instead of posting all these one-word replies, right?