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Tried two more times to checkout with the 5 sov, seems to be having a wobble, wondering if they have sold out but the front end has not updated for some reason
I was kind of 50/50 on this anyway so will take that as a sign

It’s not bullion though. It’s essentially a matte proof. 

Mate I have just went back and bought a second for you. Retail price as long as both go through!

Available Thursday 25 August 2022.

i dont think it will be plain edge, previous piedfort years have been a milled edge Lionel 

1952 SA Proof Set
Reverse pic off internet but I do own this set 😀

As we are about to celebrate the Queen's Platinum (70th) Jubilee, I thought we should look at a few coins from 1952:

1952 South Africa Gold Half Pond


Obverse of 1952 George VI Cupro-Nickel Sixpence 

Obverse of 1952 Eire Penny

Reverse of 1952 Eire Penny

Eire 8 Coin Circulation Set Pre-Decimal Reverse Designs
What else has anyone got from 1952?
😎
 

They will have to find a new Sovereign reverse design, as he surely won't want St George riding his wife on it...

They will have to find a new Sovereign reverse design, as he surely won't want St George riding his wife on it...

You don't have to be bitter, twisted and opinionated to post here. But it helps

I find the privy marks don't show up as well on sovereigns as other coins, purely because the coins are tiny in the first place and I have to really squint my eyes to see them.
Even though I'm not a big fan of the Royal Mint churning out a marginally different proof sovereign design each year I can easily see the intrinsic gold value going up so much in the next 10 years that it would comfortably pay off any premiums the Royal Mint is currently placing on them.

They will have to find a new Sovereign reverse design, as he surely won't want St George riding his wife on it...

A couple of examples of Charles portraits- 60th & 70th Birthday commemoratives- both Silver Proof £5 Crowns. 
 


 

🤔 coins might have to be made bigger to get Chaz's ears in...?

Charles doesn't deserve to get his face on the full sov, 1/2 sov at best cos he ain't the full quid.....😛

Not sure if it will affect many things monetarily, but it will certainly be a moment of historic significance. I'm currently looking to collect a set of 10oz silver Tudor Beasts so it's quite likely the set will have a change of monarch in the middle of it. It could well be that this makes the set more collectible to others in the future as it captures this transition. 

You are totally right there is next to no perceivable difference between some 69's and a 70's.   

Performing very well indeed!
PF69s are completely acceptable and if you can look at the coin in hand and see nothing obvious under a loupe there's a possibility of regrading as a 70
Too expensive to get into (for me) now, if I wasn't already 'in'.
There's an opportunity here imo which canny investors might spot - the years inbetween. Isn't the 2018 the only single Proof Sov with a privy mark? I would phone them to ask about condition but @ChardsCoinandBullionDealer have one (haven't checked elsewhere, so there may be cheaper) have one for what seems to me a reasonable £576.20.
For bullion the 2017 (also with a privy) is attracting a small premium now (£10 odd I've seen) from some dealers so stock up on those if you can get a deal!
 

You mean the first double sovereign?
If so, ignoring the George III patterns, then the first circulation £2 coin was issued in 1823.
They were sporadically issued thereafter:
Circulation strikes: 1823, 1887, 1893 and 1902
There were proof versions of most of those, plus proof only issues in 1826, c.1831, 1911, 1937.
Then came the decimal issues from the 1970s onwards, although that's beyond my expertise.

2016 proof PF70 1k to 1.2k 
2017 proof PF70 1k to 1.2k 
2022 proof pf70 £800 and very quickly rising 
There' s also a load of SOTD's between these dates. 
Like @Foster88 said it's good asking question like this but you have to do some of your own homework, as for price the free market will always dictate the price.
@Ukbullionfan have you bought yourself a Marsh and a copy of Spink?  
 

Recently put this collection of 'nearly' all the Sovereign obverse/portraits since 1817 on 'Today I want to show.....' and thought it worth repeating on this topic.  Obviously this can be expanded to include all the mints/specials/date-runs etc Anything more ambitious is likely to be 'Mission Impossible!' Early sovereigns are going to be more expensive now, but this group is still achievable in the short to medium term (finance permitting) It may take a few years - but hey, whats the rush?! The 1997 was my very first sovereign.🤗

Ha, that's interesting! I can relate something similar.
It was about 2004 or so. I was a regular on another forum at the time and we used to have competitions where coins would be won.
I ran one of them at the time, the prize was the aforementioned 2000 half sovereign.
Maybe it was the horrid coppery colour I never took to, or the fact that the jewellers I had bought it from had damaged it 'slightly' by sticking a pricetag on the coin which had left a glue residue mark across the Queen's face.
Whatever, it made a good prize, and I was happy to give it away. It had cost me all of £25-£30 to buy and I was glad to be rid of it. It lives somewhere in the States now.
There's no way I'd give away a half sovereign these days though!

I've told this story before, but the first five sovereigns I owned were due to winning them as first prizes in two particular 10km road races, between 2003 and 2006.  The sponsor was a firm of goldsmiths and these (bullion) sovereigns would have cost them about £50 per coin in those days.  By 2006 the price of gold was beginning to climb again, and to the best of  my knowledge the prize of a sovereign for winning those races ended in 2007.
Sadly I had to stop running altogether in 2006 due to long term injuries, but I still own all five of those sovereigns.  I won both of these 10km races in 2005, which was the best of those years to win the sovereigns!

@SidS Around year 2000, I seem to recall that the interest rate for saving accounts were quite good. Hence, some financial advisors kept drumming on about gold yield no interest.  I was one of those who thought that same way at the time and put my savings into ISAs and Government Bonds.  Looking back now, I wished I was more clued up about gold. 
Still, better late than never. 😊