Frenchie

Not me!  When I get them home, I pretend I'm a RM employee.  I break the coins out of their holder, bite them to make sure they're real, throw them against the wall to hear the ping, step on them, and let my cat lick them.  Then, and only then, I put them back in their holder, put on my fine cotton gloves, and then proudly add them to my collection.

And then we get the coin home, put gloves on and treat it like it is made of glass. Fools we are lol

Beauty 2014

Finally!.......Getting deliveries!..........Henry VII 2oz gold proof, miles better coin in hand, the reverse colour is a semi-matt buttery gold finish which is very attractive, and the faux-hammered effect is very good got to say I like it.

I missed out on the arms due to unscrupulous multibagging. After speaking to a sexy lady at the mint who sounded like she had big melons, I have been assured that I will most likely miss out on the portrait 🤨

I received my 2oz Gold plain edge Gothic yesterday. I was out, so the DHL delivery person was kind enough to drop it over my driveway gate, luckily  the coin was not damaged.
 

Plain edge proof Gothic Quartered Arms:

Saves trouble trying to count the serrations!
😎

Wonder if you send it direct to auction on purchase, would save a bit in postage 

I'm selling some Harrington & Byrne conversion kits if anyone fancies making a quick buck out of this new trend.
Only £100.

Received the 1oz Gold 2021 reverse proof Libertad. She will accompany her 3 sisters shortly.
 

Nowhere near as stunning as @platinreloaded but I’m getting there🙃

hope that there are more than only 2 collectors out on  libertad island💘😂🤑🤩

 
 

2014 6-Coin Silver Proof Britannia Set   Further to a French polishing commission, I have just been given this very generous gift as a "thank you bonus".    The desirable 2014 Britannia 6-coin set was limited to a mintage of merely 1735, this set being number 685 and in all-round superb condition.  

Looks to me like one less coin in PF70 eligible pool of coins.... 😁
 

Sexy ! beautiful ! stunning ! Thank you for these beautiful photos Paul  

Sexy ! beautiful ! stunning ! Thank you for these beautiful photos Paul  

No sorry I bought it just for the cameo it’s hard for me to picture but it really pops.  🤩

Well it was worth the extra wait   
2oz Gothic Crown 'plain edge' in hand, available to RM Mint Marque members
Mintage 125 in this presentation (total 131)  
it will be meeting Una, The Lion & the Grace, Grace and Grace for a party at the safe deposit box this afternoon 

2022 1/10 Australia Kookaburra
Release February 2022
Mintage 15,000

If i would be the mint, i just had to decide for one, of two ways. Increase the mintage, or get first in contact with your customers, that are buying for years. The continuity option for this set and the Tudors are great for buyers, also the new ones. Of course a higher mintage would lower the secondary market. As the mint, i wouldn't care about it a lot. It's enough if they hold their value, better something more. If it is 50, or 500% is almost meaningless for the mint. For one coin, like Una, is great, will increase the interest for RM coins. But if it goes like this with almost every coin, almost every week, couldn't be good and we could see soon a secondary market for RM proofs, like a couple of years ago. 
Somebody linked this video here in the forum, which should open up a lot of collectors eyes, even it is mainly about the videogame market. Same people are involved, like in coin grading and auctioning. Wasn't this Una hype starting with a auction result at Heritage? If you ain't want, or have the time, to watch the whole video, go around minute 38. The fraud with graded coins in the early days of grading. If you watch the whole Video, you see, which people are involved until today.
I don't say, everything is a fraud, but we should be aware of what and for what kind of money we are buying. 

The older engravers really were astounding in how they approached design.
I feel the current Royal Mint designers play it very safe and seem to shy away from complex designs - except for Jody Clark (who’s QB designs were quite detailed and felt like modern classics) and John Bergdahl (whose designs have become more intricate with age and experience, and they hark back to the 19th century coinage designs).
Timothy Noad’s designs feel very safe too. His 2002, 2005, and 2022 Sovereign designs seem “to the book” and too “literal”. IMO.
I mean, look at the detail and the textured engravings in the shield, the lion, the unicorn, the plumes… and this was done in the 19th century when minting technology wasn’t as advanced as it is today.

I really wish for bolder designers who can elevate new coinage designs.

My Gothic crown order 2oz gold(plain edge) should arrive tomorrow. The second coin release is 1st or 2nd week in February.

That could be the queue that kills me, if i would miss. Never thought a naked man on a horse would have such a impact on me.