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It's as good a price as your going to see anywhere. The whole marketplace is pretty dead and has been for a few months, I've really noticed it. I think that people really don't have a ton of spare money to buy just now. Maybe some new members thinking it's suspicious that someone is selling 10 of these at spot all at once? If that's the case check feedback on the profile page, the guys a very good seller

Pretty good idea actually, if this works out it could open an interesting door to help people change foreign money. Wish I'd thought of his when I had a lot of usd a while back.

I know the smart answer is the the 5.25% yield but I'll take the gold, its just more exciting

Sorry all, no idea what happened there

I actually really like them and if they were bullion I would have been collecting the series. I actually really like them and if they were bullion I would have been collecting the series. I actually really like them and if they were bullion I would have been collecting the series.

I actually really like them and if they were bullion I would have been collecting the series however I just don't love them enough to spend that kind of money which I know I'm very unlikely to see back. I do admit that I am more stacker/saver than a collector though so I guess it's not really aimed at me. Very good series though.

The lighting is really c**p at the place where I have my deposit box and I hadn't got my coronation set back from grading yet. Modest by some standards here but not bad for about 2 and a half years. I do love my queens beast collection as that was a chore to collect without massively overspending. Not too far away from a kilo, I would be there by now but my recent forays in to proof have impacted on 'weight' as a priority.

You know I'd never actually considered that. I always thought they were scum that preyed on the uninformed and, given where they do their marketing especially the elderly, but when you put it like that you may actually be on to something. My parents know I collect a bit of gold and recently they were telling me about an advert they had seem for super limited edition coronation coins and my first thought was it would be something from a company like that...I was so afraid they'd waste their money getting me one as a Xmas present. I needn't have worried, I got a bottle of shower gel they were probably given as a present by somebody else last year.

But you can eat silver?

Well I think that's a bit uncalled for!! Question my taste, insult my intelligence, but suggesting I belong in that company is crossing a line.

It's easy to dismiss but as the older generation of collector moves on who is going to replace them? I do think the Harry potter coins were a very smart move in that direction, there are a lot of adults buying them for themselves. My girlfriend has no interest in coins but she had to have them and has now started collecting the new zealand mint fantastic beasts. It may seem a bit vulgar or crass but they need new customers and that's how you get them, @GoldDiggerDave joked about gold pokemon cards....i bet that if the mint were to actually do that, and do it properly they would sell like crazy. That actually ties in to your other point about they can't afford it, people are paying thousands, sometimes millions for those cards and you think they wouldn't buy a gold one as a flex? What about other aspects of gamer culture? Look at the game streaming industry, it's creating a lot of rich young nerds who might greatly appreciate a video game character line, you could easily have done gaming icons like Mario, link, sonic etc. rather than myths and legends or another james bond tie in. You know I'm starting to think I may be a marketing genius

Problem is that this path only slightly delays the inevitable. They can lazily milk the last vestiges of credibility from the soverign and have a few more decent launches/sales spikes but that won't last long and the trade off is that you burn your prize asset. To be successful they need to offer the customer something new. I mean some ideas they suggest in the survey are not bad in and of themselves, they are bad in the context of the soverign. May be look at applying those things to other coins/bars. Perhaps stop aiming the product at the older crowd? How many young people give a c**p about tutankhamun, Alexander graeme Bell, dame Vera Lynn etc? As long as you churn out unimaginative c**p like that you'll never grow. Young people don't dislike gold, maybe the mint should be looking at what and who today's 18 to 30 group care about or are influenced by and collaborate with them rather than hoping we buy the outdated near weekly 'special editions'. Do they want ounce coins? Maybe not, would they like a medallion/pendant designed in collaboration with a rapper? It's more likely that's for sure.

Also that 1994 looks as though it may have a story to it, chards have a mule for sale. They seem to believe that there may have been hundreds with the wrong obverse "possibly all" interesting to see yours is a normal one https://www.chards.co.uk/1994-bank-of-england-mule-two-pounds-gold-proof-coin/2016

Hardly the bastions of good value but these are going for a pretty penny at bullion by post. https://www.gold.co.uk/gold-coins/gold-double-sovereign/

I see spelling as more of an art form than an exact science

OK so I will say something controversial....I don't hate the modern colour, I actually quite like it. I have no idea why they edit the pictures to make them look more pink because if they really were that colour it would be ridiculous. However I do agree they should be gold, use the rose tint for the other tat they sell as super limited edition, once in a lifetime proofs. What should be telling is that on here, among the people who buy them, with the exception of some dissenting voices prepared to accept the colour, the opinion is unanimous, leave it alone.

...yeah dad me and the boys wanted to get a long train to see some windmills so had to use the credit card. The cash? Oh there's literally no economies in Amsterdam that favour cash so let's not worry about that

I like people who help animals so I'll match sovheads tenner if yo pm me details

Is it all 9999 quality?

I'm not sure , there's something very satisfying about how that bag looks though isn't there? I like that

Yep, I'm not a massive soverign collector but I've got a few and I've been here long enough to know what it means to people. I think that as the mint when you have dedicated collectors forums like this you would be crazy not to just come here, lurk and read, you would certainly save the time and expense of asking such stupid questions. I think what this shows is that the management there are out of touch, do not care about the institution they are in charge of, have no interest in numismatics and they are desperately looking to see what they can get away with using the one coin they have that they believe is a guaranteed money spinner.

Oh yeah, they also want to know if people want to see a silver soverign, aside from the silver loving @GoldDiggerDave who would want that? 😉

Oh dear, did anybody else get the mints soverign survey today? Lots of questions about what 'innovations' you would like to see in future soverigns. Some of the suggestions were tags so you could see where they were made, security features, privy marks, whether you prefer rose gold, special monarch portraits and most bizarrely of all 12 sided coins. Somebody in charge there really needs to be fired. You have a coin with a legacy of hundreds of years and they think the best thing they can do is change it! I do like the very occasional special soverign but it's the rarity of these that make them special. Surely the whole point of a soverign is consistency and the fact its recognised worldwide. You start messing about with that and you ruin the legacy of what many would agree is the definitive coin of the royal mint. All for a quick cash grab on the ever more pricey and ever less popular proof sets.

I just can't imagine why anybody would have bought that in the first place, must have cost a fortune with mint premiums. And I thought I was flushing money down the toilet with my 1oz silver tudor beasts!