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I have fallen in love with this. I love the QEII obverse, I find the modern ones on a coin like this so 'wrong'. This is very harmonious imo. That's partly also why the 1989 Sov is such a winner, for me (though I believe there was a recent Tudor Rose I also missed recently, perhaps posted by yourself @GoldDiggerDave?). Of course the RM will always 'win out' in the market but these are glorious. The original thread was also a cracking read, thanks @Oldun! Mintage 2500? Anyone know/guess what's happened to the ones that didn't get a 70, that seems very odd to have such high (100%) top pop figures at PCGS?

Well that's just perfect, thank you very much indeed The RM one just doesn't look right to me being so thick!

How thick is the Alderney compared to the RM? The RM looks too thick to me compared to the original (?)

Au frommage mon ami, au frommage

I can assure you it's an urban myth that a sudden water shortage at the time meant they had no choice but to recycle the urinals for that cinematic masterpiece You have redefined the gold standard my good fellow

It's OK I think if you are a Golden member like me and Bully

You are always reliable my friend, always reliable Just as the Platonic Solids exist, so do your states of being - which roughly correlate with the four States of Matter - solid, liquid, gas, and plasma*. I fear believe you may be able to bring something to this fine discussion which otherwise seems to have gone rather, ahem, askew? Thank you goodly * Never get him wet, never feed him after midnight, and whatever you do, never, ever, ask him about the plasma!!!

Goodness gracious me, you lot 😮 I never thought I'd see the day when I might have to call upon @HerefordBullyunto raise the tone and decorum of a thread...

I very well may do so Lawrence, I very well may do so Oh come on, you can't just leave all our members dangling in the wind here like that!

One thing I really like about you Lawrence is that you never repeat yourself old boy, you never repeat yourself

Ah the glorious old days when they had a 3 per household limit but didn't pick up the fact that multiple people from the same household (or even the same person making a second, third, etc account) were ordering 'quite a few' sets of 3. I think the record on here was either 15 or 18 coins.

Best prepare to be quite annoyed

Are they still offering the QEII 40 year proof sovereign collection for £40k or has it gone up? That was my favourite part of the conversation, I'd hate for anyone to miss out on that! I did PMSL but it was worth it, one of the funniest things I've ever heard 🤣

To be fair to CPM they didn't try to hard sell me anything and were very professional imo, not like this bunch of jokers, but hopefully they've learned to sort the TSF members from the chaff by now My 'account manager' outright lied to me too (though he may ofc no longer work there, they may have learned to train their staff properly, etc). If you speak to Sasha tell him the gold bullion he scoffed at me for buying has risen ~40% in price, while the proofs he tried to sell me for thousands as 'surefire winners' are worth about 50% less, if that

I think the biggest initial worry is receiving anything at all from them in their very fancy envelopes with their company name emblazoned across the front. Long-term I'd look at their marketing policy and be worried about who they've shared with (or sold to) my personal details.

But you are a drag queen spectacular in stilettos and frocks

What? What was their excuse for that?!!

Interesting question! I could hazard a guess but hopefully someone will come along who knows

HGM was NOT an inside job ofc.

Lawrence I am shocked by some of the disinfo you have posted about fish and chips in the last few weeks on this forum. Unbelievable!!! As I believe Da Vinci to name but one may (or may not) have said 'a man who you can knoweth not by the tender loins of his cod piece, thou knowst not ever'

Same as last year please my good man!

Blimey

I believe Mr @LawrenceChard is the man to blame!

It makes (business) sense for them not to 'punish' grades they disagree with (feel are over-graded) but I assumed they'd have a database of all coins submitted to at least verify the unstickered ones? If not, it may appear to suggest (rightly or wrongly) another form of alleged 'cosiness' between some of the parties involved in grading imvho. It's very much like another problem I have with graded coins - not knowing if they've been conserved or not. A seller may say a coin hasn't, or they don't know as they bought it graded. And this may or not be true. Only a positive 'yes it's been conserved' is likely to be true in almost all cases of sales of graded coins (unless bought from someone you trust). That's why I won't pay more for graded modern coins that aren't 70s than for raw ones, and know the status of all the graded coins in my collection except for one. Why don't NGC (and do PCGS?) make the conservation status of a coin public? I know they keep records of it as people have been able to find out about coins unofficially through friends that work there. With CAC's business model this lack of transparency over conservation seems to be replicated on unstickered coins (?)

Very interesting, many thanks. What if it's overgraded?