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I was joking, but stranger things do happen. Perhaps we should have bought a stack of the 10 kilo silver ones, and offered to trade for peoples' old, small ones.

Their packing and shipping department must have got their finger out, that's impressive. (We are still beavering through a backlog of deliveries, although doing it in parallel with new orders.)

It could just go the other way, it everyone buys the "Completer", and sells all the rest! 🙂

So that's about a 9% premium. What's a fair premium? Our 2021 Queen's Beasts White Greyhound of Richmond 1 oz Gold Bullion Coin are from 6.15% to 7.0 depending on quantity, and I would expect similar premiums on the Completers when they arrive.

Thanks for the mention. All of our allocation of one ounce gold sold out about shortly after the RM sold out, although I don't think we had sold a single piece until then. We have been hoping to get a further allocation, but we won't know until it happens. Ours don't come direct from the RM, but they do come with added air miles!

It's a bit like the 19th hole at a golf club. (Freudian slip there, I originally typed gold club)

Thanks for posting the link. I had closed it this morning along with about 50 other Royal Mint Completer tabs. Very interesting!

My guess is that the 100 is a "limited presentation", which often fools people. Perhaps it also fooled the marketing people at the RM!

We were offered some today, but not for delivery until May at the earliest. Don't tell anyone, but our prices should beat the RM's prices when we get them, even with the extra air miles.

I phoned to ask about that, and other stuff, this morning. After only 18 minutes on call hold, I did get a helpful guy. Apparently there was some RM confusion about whether they should have gone onto the site. It did say something to the effect of "awaiting stock". Anybody notice that the RM have gone very coy, and removed it's telephone number from most pages of its website? There is one on its Contacts page, but it says it is for enquiry about existing orders and services. It sound like they are cutting costs and minimising their sales staff (sorry customer service team).

How about a TSF sweepstake based on who receives their 1 ounce gold proof first, posting a photo to prove it?

So that's why I couldn't buy a 2 ounce gold proof today, apart from the RM website doing its usual tricks. Every time I clicked on an available product, the site failed to go to the product page, and instead re-cycled me back to the entry landing page! Actually, we did look at the Gazette Privy Council notice at the time, but failed to sift through it thoroughly enough. What would be on the back side?

I kept the packaging from my sixgun... I call it my six-pack.🙂

I might suggest that for a special edition.

I thought Silver Bullets were Banned (according to Bob Seger). 🙂

Royal Mint missed opportunity. They should have issued one with an issue limit of 666

This is getting too silly!

Sure, Fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, benzodiazepine, oxycodone, methadone, morphine, hydrocodone, diazepam, and more. Commonly available legal and illegal drugs fuellling US addiction and overdoses, guns easily available almost everywhere, but... half a glass of alcohol for an under 21 year old, what a bad ass you are! The last time my wife and I were in the USA, we were challenged for our ID to enter a restaurant, which was quite entertaining. They did relent and let us in though, without having to provide it.

I just came across this 1893 £5 coin imitation which I had remembered seeing some months ago, and which has just re-surfaced. I call it an imitation because it would be unlikely to fool anybody (almost). While the diameter is about right, it only weighs about 21.84 grams instead of about 39.9; the style and engraving is simplistic and childlike, and the gold content is negligible, probably much lower than the 4.7% showing on the test result, as the Niton tester results are skewed towards the surface, and it had noted (GPP) Gold Plating Probable. Although it is not highly relevant to the coin discussed in this topic, I find imitation coins quite interesting in their own right. The collection with which this arrived also contained about 7 other imitation British coins.

Cash is being used less and less, the mint or Bank of England is sat on millions of surplus coins struck between 2016-2019, so much so that they think no more 2p coins will need to be struck for another decade! The Bank of England have nothing to do with British coins. They are in charge of banknotes, whereas the Royal Mint produce, stock, and distribute circulation coinage. The last change of portrait only occurred in 2015, and I presume the process of consulting artists and developing concepts to the finished design will take a few years from start to finish. It could be done a lot quicker. TheQueen is on the verge of her 95th birthday, and whilst I hope she can live for many more years yet, to break a few more records (like Louis XIV's), but at the age she is at, there is every possibility that the Queen could die before the designs are finished. I know that sounds awful put so bluntly, but just think on four years ago Prince Philip was still quite sprightly for his age. Heck two years ago, he had that horrific car crash and walked away with but a scratch. So people can go down hill fast and unexpectedly in their 90s, hopefully she won't. But I don't really see the point of doing another wholesale redesign this late in the reign. It's my guess that any designs for Prince Philip's 100th birthday will now be adapted for a combined Centennial and Memorial coin. It'd be better spent getting Charles (or William) coinage designs ideas drafted and at a place where they can be implemented when required. Prince Charles has appeared on numerous coin issues already, so any portrait designs could be modified for his 75th birthday in 2023, or for his coronation, whenever that may be. It is possible, and quite likely, that he will use some of his other names, rather than become Charles III. Personally, I was hoping that Prince Philip wold be around for his century, and an appropriate coin. Let's hope that Queen Elizabeth makes it to her centenary in 2026.

Why, has she converted to Islam? 🙂

Why do you think they called him "the Great"! 🙂

Could you provide a close-up? Particularly of his head and shoulders, so we can compare.

Just a reminder how coin design has progressed in 1000 years.

I read a Jeremy Clarkson article at weekend, in which he was discussion nicknames. He mentioned Cnut the Anagram. I suspected the Royal Mint would use the anglicised and sanitised spelling "Canute" rather than the original Norse Cnut, probably to avoid mis-spelling causing offence. It is quite likely that an (American based) spellchecker would suggest a taboo alternative.