augur

12 minutes ago, Sovereign said:

smudge on the frosting unfortunately

NCS might do somthing about it ?

From what @Numistacker says, they can work some magic on gold; so pretty sure you'll be good ? 

13 minutes ago, Sovereign said:

Wait is that a finger print on the queens face ?! 

There's some smudge either on the lid or the frosting.

Is that even a real coin? Just asking because I thought it would bear the 5th portrait from Jodi Clark (JC) but your coin spells JB – is that a typo from the mint?!

Does anybody know how customs treat coin purchases from abroad? I bought legal tender coins (sovereigns, Britannias) in the US. 

They can't possibly be charged important duties since it's legal tender and only VAT on the silver or am I wrong?

A sheet of Five Cedis. 

In comparison to the coin which must not be named, the strike and frosting is more pronounced revealing the Fourth Portrait from IRB on the coin. It also doesn't suffer from the decentred reverse dye and is a perfectly flat coin. 

But, please don't hate, it may not be legal to sell this coin above face value according to Section 2 of the Ghana Currency Act 1964. So I should have only paid £0.90 for each of these...

56 minutes ago, Kman said:

there's a small mark under G&D like a production error, there's also a scratch close to it

To be honest, that's how all my coins from the Royal Mint have come so far. Scratches, dings and damaged frosting. Silver and platinum worst but also gold. So far I have changed every coin at least once...

Congrats for becoming a father! But be careful, kids like to swallow coins...

On 03/08/2017 at 12:25, augur said:

Finally received my two quintuple sovereigns. This time double bubble envelopes as packaging.

 

 

On 05/08/2017 at 03:30, westminstrel said:

That's a treasure trove right there

How on earth did you manage to get a box with TWO Quintuple Sovereigns?

On 03/08/2017 at 12:47, Kman said:

I'm confused about this

They released a set of 2 quintuple BU sovereigns in a box? 

So after people in all time zones had a chance to mull over this I'm resolving the mystery. I didn't manage to get a box with two quintuple sovereigns but I managed to get two quintuple sovereigns in a box. It's the Royal Mint "The Queen's Golden and Diamond Jubilees UZ £5 Coin Set". 34/60 so the box is rarer than the coins... and the original owner must have graded his coins with no further use for it. 

16 minutes ago, kimchi said:

Wow that is a LOT of lovely gold in the last two posts!

We all need to heal the eye sores...

28 minutes ago, Numistacker said:

Unboxing video is up

The shiny gold nicely distracts from the design; while that doesn't make the design any better, it makes it more tolerable. Especially the smaller denominations make it less recognisable. 

Was that a stroke of genius factoring the reflective material overshadow the dull Britannia?

Proof Britannias:

1987 gold proof

1997 silver proof 

2007 no platinum available 

2017 pass

Finally flawless 

It seems that the Royal Mint is listening to you guys!

I received this huge parcel and thought I might receive several coins...

It would be nice if you could one day make a nice group photo @mr-dead, maybe in the photo thread. 

Apart from taking advantage of the weaker gold prices, you got some really lovely gold proofs now! Although the double/quintuple sovereign would match your beast proofs better in size...