paulmerton

Are you getting all the weird ones like lunar edge privies, trident privy, oriental borders, fractionals, Gairsoppa, etc?

Result! I recently got the 2016 and 2018 ones for similar prices too. Now I know I have competition 🤣

I prefer the Geiger, but tbh I wouldn't buy either.

I was a bit confused as to what this thread was about. Is is a sales post or just a question about which bar people prefer?

Because that's what happened with the 5oz Petition Crown. It took them several months to decide they couldn't actually make it and then refund everyone. But like I said, hopefully they are more confident about this one because they have gone ahead and sold them despite the previous debacle.

If it were free, sure. It was never the best first choice as its piedfort nature makes the edge inscription float around in the middle of nowhere.

3 weeks for sure.

But you'd think that they must be able to make it this time if they went ahead and sold them. Ready to throw my toys out the pram if not!

I'll have to look at this for 6 months 😥

Pretty sure those images are of the 5oz.

This is unacceptable. Please resolve immediately.

They're proud of their low returns rate. And while it remains low, it's not worth their effort improving quality. They can just pump this stuff out, knowing that most of it will be accepted regardless. When something has a £2k premium, I think they can justify having someone spend a full 2 minutes looking at the coin for defects. But they don't.

Is it worn, or simply not struck with enough pressure...

Yet another unexpected 1/40oz gold! https://www.royalmint.com/shop/limited-editions/buckingham-palace/buckingham-palace-2024-1-40oz-gold-proof-coin/

No need to print a photo. I made a video about this set and I was told that everyone in the production factory was made to stop work to watch it together.

I've kept it as it's spectacular enough to be notable.

I've received worse coins before! The capsule didn't even close properly on this one.

Dies aren't set to a distance, they're set to a pressure.

Swap for a duff dirty £2 coin?

A few things: It's been struck without a collar (broadstruck) causing the blank to spill outwards The struck coin has then been struck at least one more time (multistruck), as you can see from the extra outer dots. That's caused it to spread out even more, becoming even wider and thinner (the overall diameter is 31mm instead of 28mm). Most noticeably, the inner blank spreads out far beyond the inner row of dots compared to a properly struck coin. There is no edge milling, because that would have been imparted by the [missing] collar. There is still edge lettering however, as those are put onto the outer blanks during the rimming process, before they're combined and struck. It's unfortunate that it's a bit dirty and mangled, but I expect it probably fell down into the machinery. I love this kind of thing.

Some cheeky special gold... And a beautifully crazy £2 coin...

Oh do point out where they can be had for less.

When you take the insert out and you realise it doesn't even go all the way to the bottom of the outer tube, it feels even more swindly

I'm expecting the 5oz silver to be equally better. I also have a real 1819 LIX Crown on its way to compare - I think we can guarantee which will arrive first!

MOIST.