AOB

1 minute ago, James32 said:

@Geovest

@oddball

@AOB

Thanks James, buying graded stuff lately.

@James32 has plenty of silver..

6 minutes ago, Gruff said:

You mean his pocket change...

I’m sure he has at least a few dozen 1oz gold coins in the owl wallet 

1 minute ago, Lyrinn said:

Is James a billionaire yet?

Do we still get our free Happy Meals that we were promised when it hits £2,000 by the end of the month?

He will sell a small portion of his vault and cause the spot price to drop

Welcome aboard sir 

@Touvex

@Clockpuncher have you any for sale?

@NGMD - 5kg beast

🥾🛞
Nice Bars you have James, GLWS!!

8 minutes ago, flyingveepixie said:

Bluddy hell.  I sold 5x1oz Brits last year for around £1540 a piece and struggled to shift them at that price. Wish I'd kept the buggers now...😒

It’s the joys of collecting isn’t it, I swapped a variety of bullion(including fractional) very close to spot for a graded coin at £1640 mark, 2 weeks later spot price mooned haha..

But sure you did what you needed at the time and I wouldn’t worry about the past sir👍🏽

I have to agree with @James32, your best to offload as an entire set!

Although with the current market prices you may achieve a better yield with graded coins (70’s of course).. all depends how much your purchase cost vs how much the current price dictates.

 Goodluck with your future sales sir 

Someone grab a deal, especially with these new RMSD costs

8 minutes ago, James32 said:

Lovely 2005 from @Yetiwatch

And 4.2 kgs of .800 silver in useful form.

When’s the 5 course meal for PM members?🍛🥃

4 minutes ago, NGMD said:

What is the inscription like? Half frosted, half polished and any scoring?

Guess it’ll be third time lucky.

The amount of returns, you have to ask how many over the 450 did they Mint to cover substandard returns.

I’m thinking the same, due to all these returns.. are they now over producing??

Exactly what @Tn21 said.. best prices to purchase would be here on TSF

That’s nice well rounded graded collection of coins, keep up the hard work collecting and within the next 3yrs… who knows what it’ll become 👏🏽👌🏽

Jeez that’s very disappointing.. but your right, don’t collect something unless it’s perfect especially for a coin such as the 2oz Gold GE

4 minutes ago, NumismaticNI said:

Some good news for anyone looking the coins. I've returned 2x 2oz Golds and 1x 2oz Silver. They'll be up for grabs for some RM customers on the waiting list. 

Been received and all by the Mint. So some of use may get a call offering the golds or a silver 

Did you return due to bad quality on all 3 coins? 

Congratulations @Aldebaran

2 minutes ago, paulmerton said:

Just opened my 5oz and I think there's something in the background field, which is annoying.

Send back?

Looking at the rest of the coin, you can also see where the metal didn't fill the edge lettering completely in a few places. Not really a problem in my eyes:

Also, while looking at the rest of the coin, is this normal?

Better to return and get a pristine one, that speck on the face would annoy me

29 minutes ago, GoldDiggerDave said:

It looks savage out of the case. Yes, I thought the grease was scuff marks until mentioned.. 

5 minutes ago, BackyardBullion said:

That's going to have to come from those that were affected. 

They told me there were some that were directly affected by the emails and had impacts on the bidding. 

Good to know they have been trying to resolve this on a case by case basis though.

Should never have happened in the first place, but its good to get some accountability from them.

Yes I totally understand that.

Just hope this isn’t a hollow apology, then operate as usual. Suppose time will only tell.

6 minutes ago, AndrewSL76 said:

Yes, it would be interesting. I placed a bid and have not heard anything at all from them. Not a peep……

Hopefully they get in touch shortly if that’s the case… it was a shambles of an auction to be quite fair. 
I hope you get an email with a solution shortly

4 minutes ago, BackyardBullion said:

The Royal Mint Apologises!!

Starts

“The Royal Mint sincerely apologises to our customers for issues regarding our recent silent auction, closing Sunday 17th March 2024.

“We accept that a silent auction is just that - and we should not have issued communications to bidders whilst the auction was still live. We have taken steps internally to ensure that this does not happen again.

“We have reviewed the impact of this communication on the outcome of the auction, and we have been liaising directly with affected bidders. Each has been offered a solution that works for them, based on their individual cases.

“The trust of our customers is fundamental to our business, and we are sorry that we fell short of expectations.”

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Great work @BackyardBullion, first proper message indicating they were at fault and understanding their customer base is vital to the operations.

Would be very interested on how they resolve the affected customers..?

38 minutes ago, GoldDiggerDave said:

@AOB type face the same size.

Thanks for showing those @GoldDiggerDave, from those the 5oz looks much better proportional.

Is the 10oz centralised, or is it hugging closer to the reverse?

@arphethean @theman73 

2 hours ago, GoldDiggerDave said:

I've got the 10oz due today and already got the 5oz in hand I'll have a look to see if the lettering is the same size, I suspect it will be.  

Yes, could you do that Dave and let us know what your findings are.. I suspect they used the 5oz die with an extender