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The greyhounds have been going fast!

4 x "Venters" silver 10 ounce bars:
I must admit I had never heard of Venters before.
I intend to ensure we test one of them.

Can you fit it in your car in addition to the half tonne of kilo silver bars?

We hoped you were collecting it!

...and the collective noun?
a cube of Oxo?
... or am I talking a load of bullocks?

Lots of Oxs?, ox's?, oxes?, oxen?
Sure I know the plural of ox is oxen when referring to the actual animals, but what should it be when referring to ox coins?

Now I've had the coffee:
Good job we installed a decent lift!
 

Eagle-eyed?
No, actually it was a Krugerrand.

A quickie:
We did not have time to arrange it prettily, or use an SLR.
(Confession time, this was from yesterday)

Without double-checking, I am sure our website will explain why, it will be for storage in Guernsey where there is no VAT.
Our ageist team insist I stay at home and self-isolate while they get on with the work, but it's Doug our photographer who gets all the fun doing creative images.

We couldn't get inside the building to photograph the latest gold unboxing:
Looks like we need to add another storey.

Another Dinosaur Coin:
The last of the current series, in Cupro-Nickel, silver and gold expected soon.

There is a simple explanation for the thickness / roundness effect, which I will go into later, but if you strike a piece of flat metal with more force, it will compress more, but the squeezed metal has to go somewhere; it tries to escape through the collar and milled edge, hence a deeper raised rim, with more sharply defined ridges; this might also partially explain the shiny effect.
I have taken measurements of some of the sovereigns, and we have more photos to follow. This might be better in its own thread, and will also find its way into a Chards blog page.The above is a crude phone photo to show Doug what is required in a pro version.
 

Yes, Amy doesn't look too bad does she!

You should see the stuff that came in at 11.00 a.m.!

I did know at the time, but forgot to leave Doug (photographer) a note.
Hopefully he will be back in Friday morning, and take photos of the "different" coins, then I will also have some fun measuring them. I did not check, but expect the weights to be correct on them all.
Meanwhile Doug said: "is someone skimming off these?  Rough test and obviously not to scale but Corel Draw allows me to measure parallel points.  They all look different to me.  Is it worth getting some calipers on these?  Or are they dodgy AF?", and sent me a further photo:
A great example of the superb Royal Mint production quality!

Interestingly, when we were checking them, one of our staff noticed some differences in the milled edges, and drew may attention to them, so I asked for photos:
Unfortunately, I forgot to ask Doug to also photograph at least one each of the individual dates. Normally he is so switched on, he would probably have done that automatically, but...
...he is coming back in tomorrow to do just that.
More to follow...

Yes, they are already on sale as "secondary market bullion -our choice" which we sell at a lower premium than "minty".
I didn't speak to the seller, but it is possible he received most of them like that, or he might have unpacked them to save space in a safe; we see all sorts of stuff like that.
Some years ago, we bought back a large quantity of sovereigns which we had previously supplied. Originally we had advised the investor to stick to secondary market our choice, which is our lowest priced category, and he did buy a lot of those, but also paid extra for one or two recent dates, in quantity, some in sheets. When we got the coins back, all were loose and scuffed. He had let the kids play with them!

600+ QEII Gold Sovereigns

Just after we started putting some into bags.
When we received these, they were almost all junked together in one bag, so almost all have slight scratches and bagmarks. Sad really!
 

2019 Gold £100 Hundred Pound Britannia 1 One Ounce Oriental Border Bullion Coin Elizabeth II 5000 Mintage - Reverse
This is the first of this version we have seen.

Our photographer, Doug, had to stand on top of our gold stack to get enough height to take this shot.
We're saving up for some step ladders.

Don't worry, I didn't think you were. It made me laugh.
Perhaps it's a good idea for  a future video, although I have already appeared on TSF in my Speedos.

I recognise that as Scrooge McDuck  in the computer game "Duck Tales"!
I reckoned our kids played it about 30 years ago, and indeed note it was release in 1990.