augur

Sorry for everyone's loss. Interesting @morezone – i had a problem with a DHL parcel from Germany, that tracked up to the UK and then never was picked up again. There is an obvious gap where DHL hands over parcels to UKMail which seems to get exploited. 

I almost suspect that the employees are able to identify senders of valuable items and then reroute items or pull them out of the system. In my case the coin dealer sent me a replacement Kiwi out but in case of the Nautical Series due to the low mintage that wouldn't be possible. 

32 minutes ago, KevinG said:

Except the Albert which is a 1 year type with a mintage of 250.000

Do you know if the mintage is evenly split over the Flams and Vallon inscription? And what are these variants about position A and B?

This coin was announced as a 1918 Canada Sovereign. Pictures weren't great but the date was clearly 1913 – hopes high I was ready to bid just to see the listing pulled last minute because they realised their error. 

Went to down to check in store and it turns out it is a London Mint 1913 Sovereign. As you can see, the coin has a noticeable die crack on the obverse. 

This swayed them that the coin is damaged and only worth melt value and the paper markets pushing gold down also worked in my favour...

15 minutes ago, terakris said:

Still waiting for another delivery today thats a bit of a monster

JM bar?

6 minutes ago, sg86 said:

Do these show the same style R or just demonstrating that medals have punches dies? If I could find an R on another coin produced at the mint that would be incredible!

The "font" is the same, so likely the punches used to prepare the dies were used to engrave the war medals. Now I know even less about medals than I know about sovereigns but you definitely have some hidden gems in your shieldback stack!

9 hours ago, sg86 said:

I've never seen this overdate before, was actually quite surprised to see this and have no idea what could be the error, what are your opinions?

7 hours ago, sovereignsteve said:

perhaps the apprentice's practice coin?

I think @sovereignsteve has a point in that there are too many and unusual errors. 

The punch used resulting in the extension of the crossbar might have been experimental or damaged. Since the Mint also used punches to engrave war medals,  it is also possible that this one was a specifically carved for an unusual name and got mixed up. 

9 hours ago, prophet800 said:

Sorry for all the pictures people as I just got this 1902 Matt Proof short set and I love it haha.

Love this Britannia depiction! And yes, your long (?) set is lovely

1 minute ago, mondy41 said:

@augur can you tell me where you bought those pls

I bought them in Germany but they don't get shipped out – had to deliver them to a friend, who posted them on...

It's a fake. It might still be gold if it was made for jewellery purposes. 

34 minutes ago, Numistacker said:

Bought the 2006 4 Coin Proof Set for breaking up and grading.


 

No special design, which size will you keep? 

1 minute ago, BackyardBullion said:

Where do you even take the copper ones to get more value for their metal anyway!?

ScrapyardBullion 

9 minutes ago, BackyardBullion said:

Not that I was coin roll hunting - but I do have something very special planned for these pennies!

You will asign a number to each coin and raffle them amongst the first 3000 subscribers so that each will then get one?!

Ignoring BackyardBullion's advice these have been received and will soon be forwarded to me:

8 hours ago, Numistacker said:

I bought this one yesterday I know @augur will be proud of me )

Only two have been graded yet from a mintage of 500 and the other one is one I graded for Augur that got a 69. 

This one has little red spots all over so I have asked for it to be sent to NCS for conservation and regrading.

Ironically it is called great spotted kiwi... still strange for a four 9 gold coin to develop that many spots.

Actually, will they correct the label from greated to great? – in that case I would send its brother in for a mechanical change.

Amazing!! Thanks for sharing 

25 minutes ago, mr-dead said:

1oz gold proof Queens Beast black bull of clarence thanks to @SilverStan

Can you do a group picture with all the other 1oz gold beasts?

3 minutes ago, Goldmick said:

Well I got my e bay coin paid only £337. I knew it was good I message him and he said capsule was dirty I'm well happy.

Maybe NCS can do something about the capsule...

risk well rewarded!

14 minutes ago, daz said:

Today was a fecking awesome day .

First I picked up my part of the group order from the sorting office .

Then just as I got home the postie turned up with my 2014 Britannia 5oz proof which is absolutely stunning.

I wasn't expecting it to be such high relief , Britannia has got some proper curves to her !

Toldya the 5oz is a high relief strike – not comparable to the gold or 1oz silver. You enjoy ? 

1 hour ago, Kman said:

Luster or cleaned  looks cleaned to me

On the obverse (fields and portrait) it does look cleaned, in the protected areas those parallel streaks are polishing marks on the die surrounded/covered by lustre

21 minutes ago, Elements said:

Then I think I got a deal on this 1899 Perth mint full sovereign. Not sure the seller new about the scarcity (700kish minted first year for Perth to start producing sovereigns, somewhat scare but not-rare). I’ve been outbid a few times on these at £280-300 so to get it at £240 delivered seems a good deal to me.

 

Nice residual lustre in the protected areas