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Nice little selection today.
1739 Half Crown
1947 SA Proof Crown
1952 Unc SA Crown

Well dipping my toe into uncharted waters and well out of my comfort zone is a 1937 Proof Specimen Set. I was lucky to find this pretty much unmolested set in a local antique dealer and after a bit of help and advice from @richatthecroft (Thanks Rich) I took the plunge.
My rubbish photography and no natural light don't really show how nice this really is overall.Toning is minimal on the siver coins and just is a really nice set you don't come across very often and I was lucky to find.






 

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Well.... I had a nice windfall on THE TOON!!!!!!!!! west ham, and a draw at BURNLEY!!! tonight so withdraw from my betfair to my bank to buy some PM'S..... 

RRP of the 2oz gold "plain edge" was a little dearer £5,250
It was never intended or ever offered for general sale to the general public via the web site directly, it was offered to people who had bought the previous 2oz gold coins in the Great Engravers series (myself included) so could could continue the series and to Mint Marque buyers who have spent the desired levels (which I would not have qualify for myself directly on spend levels !)  
By offering this custom more limited "plain edge" it has albeit increased the mintage of this design, but created a separate limited 125 mintage plain edge coin, but on the flip side it actually freed up more allocation of this design for folk who would still be happy to have a 2oz gold "milled edge" in their collection, that the general public had dibs on getting for a wee small few minutes on release day before it sold out 
Right, wrong, good, bad, correct, evil ?  i don't know.  

Time to drag the Royal Mint's business model in to this century?
If the question in the title is to be believe at all the op wants is to change the way the royal mint does business. 
The way the royal mint does business has got hehaw to do with him!
@BarryWoodshas a big fat dose of buyers remorse and a unhealthy amount of self-entitlement. My wife knows this and this is how it should be done! No two businesses are run the same way. The OP is clearly deluded if he thinks that he has any chance of changing the royal mint in anyway shape or form.
 
 

I’m sure @Paulposted a piece stating the plain edge was a bit more expensive but can’t be arsed to look. Paul? 

. . . . . . . hhhhhhmmmmmmm . . . . . . . . errrr . . . . . . . YES 
what 99.995% are probably thinking the same exact same thing 
 

Took me 30 seconds to find out the release price of a Gothic Crown, just saying...

Took me 30 seconds to find out the release price of a Gothic Crown, just saying...

I have been trying to put my finger on who you remind me of Barry

In all seriousness get your money back if you can, and move on.
There isn't really much you are going to gain apart from that.
 

It's up there with Wonger, and the 'Sold all my gold, got stung!' thread!
To use a Berraism,
'It's like deja-vu all over again...'

Because it's a free country?
Is there a prize for the correct answer?
 

Bump! 

As I posted way way back now.
' Buyer beware '
it applies to any dealing you do with any one person on any day every day of your living life,
from buying your bread and milk on a morning in date 
To picking your takeaway so you don't get the two Bob bits
To repairing a roof or buying a car
or taking speculative punts of lumpy shiny metal
 

Picked up my panthers today.
Great coin, love it and the reverse frosted is STUNNING. 
Quality of coins is great, nothing wrong to my eyes. 
THE BOX HOWEVER - ribbon is basically broken and as you might see from the video later today the first impression opening this package was LESS than good. 
Also, ROYAL MINT - get the little things right please, put the bloody coins in oriented the correct way round - this is how I was presented with my coins.
It shows either a) A complete lack of care and precision in the QC process or b) Total ignorance regarding the presentation of their products. 
IF I RULED THE MINT - gosh, heads would role. 

Got this set today and must admit i do like the reverse frosting proof one.... set of two 1oz's 

Queen's Beasts Bullion Completers   A tidy looking combo, both of which arrived today.   Just awaiting the delivery of two "11th Holes" in order to complete my boxed collections.   The ten ozzer worked out at a bargain £230 thanks to a ref**ral - let me know if you...

Got this little sausage for the NGC box

Got these on wednesday and thursday but was too busy and just opened it yesterday and today.  They are the 50p two coin gold set with jody clark and mounted observe, and a Graf Von Fabre Castell Alexander sterling silver fountain pen(hopefully it's okay to post that here).
Really nice COA on the two coin set😉. However, I think they are going back to the mint as one coin has a chipped edge and the other has frosting on the mirrior fished reverse... What do you guys think?
I am sending the pen back too, it had micro scratches all over😭.
Funny that the coin took two days to arrive from wales, and I am still waiting a dozen coins from the mint whilst the pen took one day to arrive from the netherlands lol.
 

2022 1oz Bullion Ronseal   Nothing to get too excited about in this wee collection, although it is good to see that both the Elephants' legs all reach the ground. So much more fortunate than several African leaders who disagreed with the 'flu-like pandemic that never wrought havoc across the continent. Their refusal to deceive their own people most certainly did not result in their assassinations. Just accidents, coincidences and "covid". They were not hanged for their opposition.   The Kook is good but does lend more than a nod to the 2020 RAM WMF 1oz coin. The vast majority of both 2021/22 Kookaburras are believed to have badly damaged and deformed, this following encounters with Queensland Police when the coins were being transported across State boundaries. Just doing their job.   It is well worth picking up a New Zealand 2020 Penguin. I agree with many that it the pictures do not to its 3-d effect justice. At around £30 and with a mintage of just 25,000 it is considerably better value than most 2022 bullion. Having been under 25,000 miles from somebody who coughed in 2020, most of the issue still have another 12 years quarantine still to complete. Coins are not legally allowed to be reimported to NZ due to the menacing risk of mass extermination of the already extinct bird.   The Maples continue to portray ERII in the most beguiling of fashions. She must be well chuffed. The only surprising element is that fascist Dictator Justin Castro didn't insist on the coin bearing his own portrait. This before he went into hiding from the Canadian people.   The Philly is yet one more Austrian Enigmatic Variation and can now only be purchased upon production of a vaccine passport, the sporting of a fylfot and the bellowing of three "Sieg Heils". Rumours of a forthcoming "Yellow Star privy" edition have not been confirmed.  

super cool.delivery today. New designs from the mega talented Rios 

Two lovely £5 Silver Proof Crowns arrived today 😃 
And a 2022 Premium Proof Annual Set. Out of stock everywhere now that I bought the last one at issue price from The Britannia Coin Company 😥 






 

Sorry, c**p photo - but thought I should add this (my first photo here) - arrived this morning.