westminstrel

Why not both? An experience so the memory lasts a lifetime, and a trinket to mark the occasion that can become an heirloom piece. After all, a Golden Jubilee is a remarkable achievement and imo worthy of being immortalised. If not gold coins, maybe a couple inscribed gold rings. The experience once again doesn’t have to be anything OTT - they’re not teenagers and would likely appreciate an intimate family gathering more than a wild adventure (depending on what they’re like). 😀

You are too kind. ☺️

Oh it gets better… As per the description: The design is the first in a series of Una and the Lion bars and will be available in gold, silver and platinum. So expect much more milking over the coming years. https://www.royalmint.com/una-and-the-lion-register-your-interest/?utm_campaign=2024-01-prm-una-lion-bar-range

I think a good candidate is the Longest Reigning Monarch coin with the five definitive portraits on the reverse and the special James Butler portrait on the obverse. It was available in expensive but gorgeous gold too.

Yes. Charles is likely not going to have a Silver Jubilee so they’ll milk every possible intermediate anniversary he has. I think I recall now the survey also had Charles and Camilla‘s 80th birthdays as SotD candidates. And then they had suggested occasions of the extended Royal Family (someone shared a screenshot of this question earlier in this topic). I agree with you - they’ll find some SotD to churn out every year as it has become its own product line now.

Exactly! William Wyon’s Una and the Lion was a way of honouring Queen Victoria, referencing The Faerie Queen and envisioning Queen Victoria as Una leading the Lion (England). That amazing sentiment seems to be lost on the current management at the RM, who are using - and leasing out to other mints like EIC - the Una and the Lion “brand” in a way that totally insults Wyon’s legacy and cheapens what was a masterpiece of intent and design.

I forgot the questions in the Sovereign survey, but they had mentioned several half-assed reasons for SotDs including memorial of QE II’s 100th Birthday, KC III’s 5th anniversary of accession / coronation, anniversaries etc. of old monarchs, blah blah. I’d rather they didn’t do any SotD this year. The Sovereign scene is saturated as it is.

YES. 1000% yes!!! I have seen those on the RM Museum’s Instagram and Twitter and thought the G&D would make an amazing ingot. Imagine it on a cast bar. 😍

I failed to respond to you my friend, and I stumbled upon this post while researching the Prince George 5th Birthday SotD (again). Geek works for me. 🫣🤗

To be clear… the design looks great on paper and will probably look amazing on the bars too, but they need to stop using the Wyon name and design as marketing tactic as it’s a bit of an insult to our intelligence.

Once again referencing William Wyon’s “Una and the Lion” catchphrase to sucker people into splurging for a random woman and a lion. Okay… 🙄

Another idea is pairing an 1887 QV Golden Jubilee Sovereign / Half-sovereign with a 2002, and 2024. If willing to splurge (it’s once in a lifetime after all), maybe a 2024 gold sixpence. A bit special as it’s the first design of its kind. https://www.royalmint.com/gifts/sixpence/2024-wedding-gold-sixpence/

Perhaps a 2002 “Golden Jubilee” Sovereign could be another contender. 🙂 Congrats to your parents!

Hey, what’s free is free. 😋 Lovely, should’ve resembled this. 😍

You may keep the excess and hand me the rest of your coin. 😜

I think what’s throwing the design off (versus the original Crown) is the inclusion of that plain concentric space around the denticles.

I love the religious aspects behind the design, and interestingly, the Petition Crown also had a teeny tiny St. George and Dragon at its center.

Are you able to share where you got this from?

That reminds me, I need to be in the market for a 2017 £5 Proof Sovereign. 🙂 I agree. It stood out to me too. Not sure what’s their reasoning behind that design choice. Or maybe that image is a mock-up created by someone and not the official RM promo image.

Yeah that’s exactly right. If we’re looking at sub-250 as @Allgoldcoins may have hinted (cheeky cheeky!), then indeed the Una mintages could be replicated; although I’m now thinking it could be even slightly lower at 200/210. The big question is whether the RM will try to double dip by somehow releasing a variation with another 200 or so mintage. That’d just kill it. Let’s hope they don’t. And separately, it’s also the silver mintages that will determine the overall success or failure of this release. Here are max mintages once again: 2oz silver mintages - Una and the Lion: 3000 - Three Graces: 3510 - Gothic Crown Portrait: 4256 - Gothic Crown Quartered Arms: 4006 - Petition Crown: 3260 2oz gold mintages - Una and the Lion: 225 - Three Graces: 335 - Gothic Crown Portrait: 406 - Gothic Crown Quartered Arms: 411 - Petition Crown: 310

Lower than 250? Okay that’s low. 😅

At least secondary mints have an excuse. This sort of utter rubbish design from the Royal Mint is simply shameful and embarrassing.

PM me yours. 😊

I don’t think he’s selling. 🙂

And I’m in the market for a 1 Oz Coronation reverse proof. Price is not an issue. Hit me! 😇