Silverlocks

9 minutes ago, Darr3nG said:

Wonder how easy it would be to recreate something like this:

 

Like this?

130.

@Fenlander1 - you still flogging 1oz coins?

1 hour ago, ZRPMs said:

Been playing with my camera a bit more. Still feels like using some thing from NASA but took a few pic's of the sovereign box. Now they are all away again I think it would have been nice to have got all the gold together.

 Would have been impossible without the tripod.

That's a lot of sovereigns..

Just now, HonestMoneyGoldSilver said:

This coin has high potential. If you melt it down and mint a new one it could be perfect

If you put a smidge of silver in the alloy it would be just the dog's b0llox.

11 minutes ago, Gruff said:

Again, how do these get past the insection point. Clearly RM is employing for diversities sake, blind or  partially sighted people to do QC  

More like some combination of poorly motivated staff working in a toxic culture with perverse incentives.  Remember, this is an organisation whose management are happy to blatantly lie about their issues with milk spotting, even when it's painfully obvious they're doing so. This is nothing to do with the staff and everything to do with the the place being run by t0ssers.  This sort of thing always comes from the top.

George Ansell was ripping the Royal Munt's management a new one for their incompetence 150 years ago.  In an organisation that was 1,000 years old then, there's not much reason for it to have gotten any better.

@CallumHSLimited - do you still have any half sovs?

18 minutes ago, James32 said:

Instead of just turning it's neck to the left, dippy dragon does a full 360 with a very bent neck. Beautiful coin though. Wear it in good health.

Maybe it's a nod to The Exorcist.

2 hours ago, Orpster said:

Deleted in shame so no one ever knows what I posted in deals  

 

Make sure you're on the NBS next time.

2 minutes ago, stackerp5 said:

That's the one 😍

Now tell me that Carlos IV doesn't have the most punchable face of any monarch in history.

7 minutes ago, Charliemouse said:

Not received today on the TIR thread?  Chris!!!!   🤣

Wen flip?

3 .. 2 .. 

9 hours ago, stackerp5 said:

Some nice chunky silver! Lovely toning! Thanks @ilovesilverireallydo 

Oooh.  Pieces of eight.

16 minutes ago, ak74 said:

It took ages for them to make such a...simple design I expected smth more interesting, tbh

Sometimes less is more - the reverse is nice, although I could take or leave the obverse.

That's a nice design.

1 hour ago, BLOOMMAN101 said:

some of them ,saw my first petrol bomb and water canon

Well, there's the old joke about how if you can remember the 1960s you weren't really there, but that sounds pretty memorable.

1 hour ago, BLOOMMAN101 said:

just like to say Oi! 1960s isn't very old

Can you remember the 1960s?

2 minutes ago, Richard82 said:

Looking to find out the name of the design on the coin.

Searched through all their site and can't find this design 🙈

Maybe this one

https://www.instagram.com/p/CzENIhmNAt2/

13 minutes ago, James32 said:

@Silverlocks possibly.

This outfit, I think - https://www.aureana.in/

2 minutes ago, James32 said:

Hard to fight heritage 👍 

Could be worse.  At least PM have a functioning QA department.

The gold fingers are on the other computer, I'm afraid.

39 minutes ago, Wilburwombat said:

Received these additions to the collection this morning. A 2021 1.5oz Playtpus from the Perth Mint, and RCM's 2023 20z Smilodon. Both purchased from the SilverTrader. These two mean I've pretty much cleared my wish list (at least, until the next Ice Age & Tudor Beasts bullion coins are available for purchase!).

 

 

I'm a big fan of dollaridoos.  I could be tempted to revise my policy of not buying platinum coins for one of those.  

54 minutes ago, dicker said:

As I understand it there are no limits on production, therefore no scarcity. Happy to be proven wrong!

I think so as well.  I certainly can't see any indication of anything like that on the website.  Normally, if it's a limited mintage, you'd expect the web site to say it, the lack of which implies that it hasn't got a limited mintage.

On 24/02/2024 at 22:04, Cubic said:

Can anyone recommend me a capsule with various grommet sizes that will take 1oz Brits, gold and silver and sovs please?

Air-tites 'H' capsules have a range of direct fit and black ring versions that will fit coins between sovs and 39mm or so.  22mm rings for sovs, 27mm or 28mm for double sovs or most 1/2oz, 33mm for most 1oz coins, and 36mm for quints or 50 peso coins.  You can also get 'T capsules' in 22mm black ring variants that will fit sovs.  You can also get 39 and 40mm bare caps that will fit 1oz silver coins, and 39mm Leuchtturm ultra caps will also fit into H tubes, although the Leuchtturm 40mm caps don't quite fit H tubes, so you'll need to get Air-Tites ones for that.  The major sources of 40mm coins are U.S. mint (ASEs), Casa Moneia do Mexico (Libertads), Perth Mint, RAM, NZ Mint and KOMSCO.  Most other vendors do 39mm.

The main strike against Air-Tites is that they're a bit pricey and a faff to get as you often have to import them from America.

Heimerle & Meulle make something similar called unity bars.  Unfortunately I've never seen anybody flogging these in the UK.

https://www.goldzeiten.de/produkte/gold/146/unitybox-large-250-x-1g-au

https://www.goldzeiten.de/produkte/gold/145/unitybox-small-100-x-1g-au

https://www.goldzeiten.de/produkte/gold/480/unitybox-xxs-32-x-1-0-g.

43 minutes ago, Organics said:

Thanks for the link. It’s interesting that they were already sold out. Just wondering if the history of the Royal mint will make any difference to the long term price, like the Pamp Suisse series did 🤔. Only time will tell 👍

I would think that the shortage is only transient.  With Eid coming up, they will most likely have another batch in stock before long.

I don't think bars like the Royal Mint one will be particularly collectible.  As far as I can tell they don't have any limited mintage.  PAMP seems to be able to attract a bit of a premium because of their brand, but I don't think a lot of people actually collect PAMP bars either.

24 minutes ago, James32 said:

Think modo got it direct

I suppose I could ask him to pick one up next time he comes to the UK.