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Agree about leaving it alone with one exception. Change the colour back to yellow gold. If they are asking the question it might be that the constant complaints are getting through.
Problem is that someone in marketing see's all these adverts offering different types of sovereigns from God knows where and raking in the cash. So they think they could do with a share of that market.
Just look at how Royal Mail has gone. Stamps no longer issued in moderation for real anniversaries. They milk the market.
Royal Mint already does some of this so to the mind of some executive extending it to sovereigns makes financial sense. They can't understand it from a collectors point of view because they only know the business from the short term economic point of view.

I did the survey and what the hell sort of questions were those?  They need the leave the sovereign as is and playing around with it will only cheapen and make a joke  of the chief coin of the world.....Other comments I had to be honest about the account mangers. 

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.
 

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.
 

Well I achieved my goals, complete my gold 1oz queens beast collection and fill my soverign box the girlfriends mum accidentally bought me for Xmas.
 Going to keep collecting the silver reverse proof tudor beasts and 1oz golds. We'll see what the Coronation soverigns bring but I'm not commuting to that.
 Other than that just whatever I impulse buy here

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.
 

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

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

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

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

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.

Yes, I did.
Not interested in a silver sovereign.
Not interested in a 12 sided coin.
Not interested in different purity.
etc, etc.
Much prefer ‘old’ yellow gold to ‘new’ rose gold.
Comment: I won’t be buying any proof / SOTD sovereign until premiums come down significantly.

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.
 

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.
 

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!
 

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!