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My first Gillick arrived today, courtesy of @Sh97if Been after one for a while, hopefully this is the start of the set.
 

Got my new Yale today to keep my lion company. Courtesy of @Orpster

Got my new Yale today to keep my lion company. Courtesy of @Orpster

Got my new Yale today to keep my lion company. Courtesy of @Orpster

Got my new Yale today to keep my lion company. Courtesy of @Orpster

Got my new Yale today to keep my lion company. Courtesy of @Orpster

Got my new Yale today to keep my lion company. Courtesy of @Orpster

Got my new Yale today to keep my lion company. Courtesy of @Orpster

Got my new Yale today to keep my lion company. Courtesy of @Orpster

Got my new Yale today to keep my lion company. Courtesy of @Orpster

Got my new Yale today to keep my lion company. Courtesy of @Orpster

Got my new Yale today to keep my lion company. Courtesy of @Orpster

Got my new Yale today to keep my lion company. Courtesy of @Orpster

You should try a wanted post in the marketplace here.

I'll just wait for James to start listing 👍

You have got to love the ping test, many of the Gillick get contact marks on the high points especially QEII shoulder. Some 1958 & 1959 Gillick  I recently purchased from Chards.  Only very slight contact marks and I have not conserved this yet.   I will be slabbing this at the NGC soon just to see how they fair.   I will upload some better pictures of them once have done the conservation work on them. 
For me If I can buy good quality Gillicks at around the sovereign bullion price I will buy them over just standard bullion sovereigns, I prefer the finish of the coins they have a natural satin finish and far nicer on the eye than the new brown bullion sovereigns.
 
 

They told me there releasing more the start and end of feb 

Very nice m8, what I was hoping for but doubt my replacement will be back in time 🤷‍♀️ Dog s*** on the part of the Mint to be fair

When I hear people say, 'it's not that gold has gone up, it's the fiat that has depreciated'
I think back to 2015 when I was paying £180 a sov.....has fiat lost more than half its value in 7+ years?

I was in the process of buying a property a bit ago. I had a nice lump tied up in sovereigns. They were selling for about £250 at that point. The guy that bought the sovereigns from me had been buying sovereigns for many years. We had a good conversation whilst the trade was being done. At the end and just before he went. He said thank you for these, but, its almost impossible to believe when I started I was buying Ounce coins for less than I've paid for each of these sovereigns. Just over £200 an ounce.
Sorry @James32 I recon his stack would bury yours, mine and most of us on here put together. It's hard to imagine a 1oz coin at £250. Not to coin a phrase, but I bet it took some metal to buy a sovereign for more than you were paying for ounce coins. 
I suppose my point is no matter what the price is £300 / £400 .............£600. As long as what you pay is not over priced for that time ie : if the average is £400 then £380 is a good price but £420 might be a bit much for bullion. I think my cheapest sovereign was £173.85. So it quite mad to think that I thought £300 was dear. It seems so long ago now. My heating oil was £270.00 for 1000ltrs just paid a little under £900.00. Store of value, I think so.

I had this conversation with a friend yesterday and we were both reminiscing when we were stacking these when they were £190 each and today they are bouncing around the £400 mark.   He was saying for him now they are becoming practically harder to buy 1 a mental block for him as he's still wishes he could buy at the sub £200 mark, (don't we all)  but 2  real world limitations £400 is a chuck of money now for normal people and wages have not doubled in the time gold  has.   Yes you could say buy less per year but is there a point where even buying 1 is a considered purchase. 
We could say it's all relative but it clearly isn't,  by the time every gets their 10% pension boost and workers get there 8-15% pay rise  it's very likely gold would have risen again 15-20% more, is gold accelerating away in terms of affordability for mortals especially if you look at the longer term predictions for gold.  I know anyone can predict anything and the market could go south so this leads me onto another question.......
A what price for a bullion sovereign would you back the truck up......and I mean really back it up, pull a chuck of savings, load the credit card I mean really throw  a good portion of your wealth into it?    
Would be interesting to see where the low and high bar is for people.   
For me I'd back the truck up at £300, but would have to really consider buying less at £600-£650 if they doubled in price again in the next 6-7 years to £800 and wages had still not kept up I'd be out. (I'd be selling loads so I'd still be happy)   
I can hear people saying you can play the spread, of course you can but I just really wanted to simplify at what point is a sovereign too much for a moral working person? 

So that's my sov all packaged up and ready to go back to the Mint for a replacement, fingers crossed they get me something better sent out in time to get a blue label. 🤞

I've had the Matte £5 BU in hand today.........🤗

I posted these on today I received make sense to put them here 

I think both of you make good points, I think that the grading obsession is hurting the collectors because the difference financially between a 69 and a 70 seems totally out of proportion to the difference in quality. It seems like if you get a 69 you may as well break out the dremel and pretend it was never graded if you actually want to sell it.
 The first release is nonsense but yeah it does mean something because collectors have allowed it to be so, to that end the mint are letting down buyers. On the flipside though if nobody qualifies for it with the big coins then it doesn't matter