Ted1945

Reasons to be cheerful …. chance to own a little bit of history to pass on and admire when I need cheering up Owning some mini works of art and amazing creations and the “one day Rodney “ hope some will come good Full filling hobby that doesn’t drain my disposable income and leave me with nothing to show for it all the stuff I don’t know but am enjoying learning about Getting to know some great like minded characters through the forum and having a laugh The strange feeling I get knowing I can’t really talk about my hobby to the uninitiated having a reserve the banks nor HMT can get their hands on which give some hope for the future whilst everything appears F UP

Offer a 5% discount And just leave them on the website for eternity ?

Naive question what do they do with unsold sets ?

Yes a fantastic model for them and I am a bit worried it’s something the bright little things will push upon us going forward more and more Not that I’m in the Marque club but I’d be a bit hacked off with the lack of originality coughing up all that for access to …… a nice box and readily available coins

Another mistake optimistically waiting for RM account managers to call back / answer e mail only to realise they are on long term sick … again …. repeat

Mistake = Handling a proof coin

I have a few bullion coins from the RM,old ones, in fancy envelopes …I think gold needs to go to Mars let alone the moon before I’ll recoup the premium

Oh those memorial sets, I feel the pain too, perhaps on the way to the moon it’ll come good

I’ve often seen mention of references to past mistakes and regrets and wondered if anyone would share their experiences? I am still new to collecting and certainly messed up with buying from the RM and continue to do so😂 who knows it may be cathartic to share or not, just wondered ?

Possibly all three of those things ? Inflation may not have been so bad then great piece of history

Possible ex royal mint QC person has a new job? One to watch

Is this a new phenomenon? overloaded with special coin releases so we are now turning to the quality of the boxes ? Fomo made me pursue this box

Has anyone got contact details other than the generic customer services e mail of anyone at the RM that will actually do something about a complaint? many thanks

You won’t be disappointed good luck

Finally got to unpack this little bundle of joy huge thanks to golddiggerDave for sorting the grading out and being very patient with me totally recommend him to anyone

If the royal mint get their hands on the book Storyland, a new mythology of Britain by Amy Jeff’s they will have endless series

yes a missed opportunity to do something special in so many ways - this is the worst design in the series The devil in me would have liked to have seen the words / message Stuart Copeland, drummer ( son of the CIA top cheese) wrote on his drum skins about/ to Sting, that at least would have been identifiable to the band

It’s not of great concern to most but it’s odd that there are no branches of HSBC in the City of London now. I wanted a little face to face complain time, had to go to a regional branch, queued for half an hour to be told my problem could only be dealt with on line. It was carnage in there, massive signs saying don’t abuse the staff. Thank god Jeremy Corbin never got in or the country would be in a right mess by now ….. oh hang on

I didn't say compared too.....

Huge thanks to GoldDiggerDave for sorting this out for me. Anyone looking for help with grading, general good sense and great customer service need look no further. Very patient too!

Forgive me if I have missed it but what are the highly limited editions they mention ? I can’t join the queue so I won’t be gazumping anyone just curious

Happy Monday😀 off to grading now big thanks to Goldiggerdave for sorting this all out for me can’t thank him enough -

And it is a bit sus a dentist ? Hope they are not melting old teeth down sorry

Is it possible he is just in the phone queue to the RM QC department ? a few ahead of him still believe WW2 is still raging

Evidently I shouldn’t swap jobs to become a coin photographer thanks to Golddiggerdave for sorting the grading for me really helped There’s a 69 in there just to nark me thanks not Royal Mint hey ho can’t win them all and they smaller ones came in at 70 😀so first world problem