paulmerton

12 minutes ago, Zhorro said:

Is this the Snowman 2021 design?

https://coinhunter.co.uk/50p/the-snowman/brilliant-uncirculated/

Yes

Presumably, "gold plated version" is a synonym for "fake" in this case, and while it claims to contain 1oz of fine gold and has a face value of £100, surely its only purpose can be to deceive. 

Anyway, how on Earth has it managed to get a starting bid at that amount?!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144245799655

 🤔

2 minutes ago, Dan12345 said:

Call me stupid 🤠 but what is it

A very budget dalek.

EX-TER-MIN-ATE!

10 hours ago, pricha said:

In my experience i would say the signed for is a total waste of time. It's basically advertising to a unscrupulous person that something value is inside.

It could be worse - MyHermes couriers can actually see exactly how much a parcel is worth! They shouldn't have any need for that, and I bet it helps fine tune which ones go missing...

Just now, FFposh said:

Oh yeah, I did see that! Not great for me🤣

Sorry, wasn't meaning to thwart your selling, more to give you a price idea!

There was a deal posted for the 2020 gold standard just last night! 😃 

Update: still plenty in stock https://www.hattongardenmetals.com/buy/the-gold-standard-quarter

9 minutes ago, Mothballjim said:

Btw, if the intention was to hide that number under the black rectangle, be aware that the barcode also contains that number  

1 minute ago, Mrpound said:

Not quite received yet but I’ll take some good news… will be with me shortly 🤩

Those silly upside down coins always get me 🤣

I have a 100g cast bar as a "desk fondler" because I'd probably lose it otherwise.

I think it's better than a 1oz coin because it's a smoother shape, and chunky enough to better appreciate the thermal conductivity properties.

8 hours ago, SilverJacks said:

This hadn't registered with me until you said it. Now I'm wondering whether it's worth being repackaged...

Your coins look awesome btw. Are you keeping the obverse facing one as it is, or asking for it repackaged?

I have pointed it out to them and I'm waiting to see what they offer to do about it first.

2 hours ago, SilverJacks said:

I haven’t checked in daylight yet, but it looks good under artificial light. I’m really happy with  it so far 😃. Got a bundle of booklets and stuff to go through also…

 

They stuck yours in backwards too! 😲

2 minutes ago, DarkChameleon said:

Are they producing an older britannia now?, are they adjusting the mint on 2019 brits so they can make more?, is that even legal?

As it says on that page: "A 2019-dated silver coin that was inspected at the 2020 Trial of the Pyx"

See https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/events/trial-of-the-pyx/ for more information about that process.

Woah, hold my horses... I've just noticed my newly discovered Trial of the Pyx coin has been sealed into the tamper-evident packaging the wrong way round (the Queen's head is on top).

Unsure whether I should get that resolved or whether it adds to the value  

Today I received my Trial of the Pyx order.

Can anyone spot why I'm not very impressed?!

There is literally no coin in the pack at all! It arrived sealed and everything!

5 minutes ago, westminstrel said:

Yup. As Paul says, it’s the 2009 Kew Gardens released for circulation that has one of the lowest mintages of circulation coins.

 

It's crazy isn't it. The mintage was 210,000, which seems like a large number - but compared with the rest I guess it isn't, and the relatively low mintage is exacerbated by people keeping hold of them when they find one, thus making them even rarer in the wild. You'd be extremely lucky to find one today even if you sifted through dozens of big bags of 50ps from a bank.

Here's an eBay auction for a circulated one that sold for £160, which seems even crazier when you can get uncirculated ones for less! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kew-Gardens-50p-Original-Genuine-Circulated-great-condition-2009-Rare-/403222335467

Just now, Altitudes said:

I'm curious as well as to why the Kew Gardens became so sought after. Nice coin but I'm not overly familiar with 50p's.

It's most likely due to the fact that the circulated version is so rare. Even a bruised up circulated Kew Gardens coin is worth quite a lot to some people!

2 minutes ago, Altitudes said:

How are you able to see that again?

Maybe spending over the odds on Trial of the Pyx coins has bumped my position up in the queue  

1 minute ago, Zhorro said:

I'm in a RM queue.  What am I queuing for?

Another chance to throw your money at them!

25 minutes ago, Darr3nG said:

(remember how cool Panthero was from Thunder Cats?)

It feels a bit more Snarf than Panthro to me  

6 minutes ago, LawrenceChard said:

The aptly named B.I.N. ones (Buy It Now), only cost about 10p per month to list, with a bigger fee if it ever sells, which simply encourages sellers to list stuff at ridiculously over-inflated prices.

For personal sellers, it doesn't cost anything to list items with a Buy It Now price (unless you list hundreds of items). It's been that way for several years now, which probably only exacerbates the number of crazy opportunistic listings.