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Showed up at 9:59 local time and got queued with 7 (!) before me. Seems to be a side door, while at the main gate the usual shouting, pushing and rock-throwing is in full swing...?

Placed my order (just the full sov) and left. Confirmation email arrived.

2 minutes ago, Paul said:

anything sold out yet ???

 

The five-piece set seems to be gone

I liked the 2002 but not 2005 and certainly not 2012. 1989 is unrivalled...

17 hours ago, Chris99a said:

I have only recently got more interested in gold coins, before it was mainly historic silver coins so I have never really paid that much attention to sovereign releases as they come out till this year, so is there any set pattern to the bullion release time e.g. is it brought out on the same day as the proof or is it typicaly later, does it change year on year? 

The bullion sovereigns will be much later. Here in Germany they use to arrive in early-mid January, and in the UK not too much earlier. 

Half and double bullion sovs should be another few weeks later. 

9am. That makes 10am over here. I'll be wide awake all morning

My plan is to buy all (full) sovereign issues for 2022. No matter how many SotD, matte, plain edge, bullion etc. they are doing. So, after a hiatus of 3 or 4 years, this proof full sov is a must.

3 hours ago, Alz111 said:

Quite excited can’t wait till Monday 

 

You'll have to... We all have to... 😬

3 hours ago, Centauri167 said:

I know nothing about platinum so maybe you can help me a little. Let's take the Kookaburra 1/10 coin. It has a mintage of 1500 what is low if you compare it with gold or silver but is there a collector's market in platina or is it more for stacking/ investment ?

15.000 mintage sounds quite a lot for me for collectors' demands. I am not sure about investments. But I would not expect it to become scarce anytime soon.

24 minutes ago, Centauri167 said:

It looks like platinum is not so popular on the forum ...

Don't worry. The share of platinum-related posts here is, I would estimate, roughly at par with the share of platinum in the wider PM market...

I noticed the Kooka 1/10 oz but haven't made up my mind. I set my eyes on another 2-3 full ounces this winter; maybe I just throw in the Kooka.

15 minutes ago, danmc82 said:

So what are members going for upon realease? Hopefully 2 full and 1 half for myself.

Full proof, and half, full and double bullion. Maybe two full bullion. 

Here in Germany they are available. Price level isn't too funny, though. I got mine long ago for less than half of today's prices...

The Griffin is the only one that is hardly available over here, and for completely mad costs.

Says who?

40 minutes ago, dangelo said:

The last QE2 coins are going to be issued and the new design 2022 sovereign is among them.  [...]

4 hours ago, ArgentSmith said:

Did anyone else participate bid in this auction? It was an absolute calamity.

I didn't. I was tempted to own a sovereign from the catalogue but the bids' levels taught me otherwise.

Just bought the 1oz silver and the sheet metal - just as in the QB series.

No VAT was charged. Let's see what the waylayers over here will do 😉

On 05/10/2021 at 12:12, ak74 said:

At least they didn't forget to finish QB ;))

 

Stupid question: Will there be a platinum Completer? 

The two sovereigns should be close to spot, 320-330-ish.

All the rest are collector items which I wouldn't touch, and therefore can't estimate a value.

I have seen several such videos. However, nobody has ever reliably explained to me how much gold is actually used in the manufacturing of a computer.

My take is that it is far less than suggested in the videos. I think they are fake. 

In university, in the past millennium, some of us tried to extract silver from photographic waste solutions, and not even that gave satisfactory results. 

Thanks!

The golden Tiger looks nice but the kitty in the silver series is plain ridiculous.

Does anyone know (maybe just I missed it) when the platinum Tiger will be issued? I might need to sell something to get enough paper currency to pay for it...

On 24/08/2021 at 13:20, Simmoleon said:

Here are some other coins which are returning from grading 

 

What's hidden under the black bar? Some special label with one's name added?

Hi all,

did anyone buy those new RM blister cards already?

I kinda like the idea but have the 2021 half and full sovs already... Are the coins the same that you would get in any shop, or are they of choice quality? Would you think NGC will label them differently than tubed 2021 sovs and the half in the cheap blister?

Just checked German prices. Gosh! Thank God, I am complete with the ten original coins. The Completer is nowhere available, just on pre-sale.

Griffin is about 160€, the other early ones around 90€. Plus postage, that is...

59 minutes ago, LawrenceChard said:

Still a beginner then? 🙂

Yes, very much so 🙂

In the meantime I try to afford more quality (slabbed, proofs, SotD etc.) than quantity, which of course slows down the rise in numbers.

When I finally decided to invest in gold sovereigns, I went to a major gold dealer here, taking a big wad of fiat with me.

They gave me one each of 'all' sovereign types - 3x Victoria, Edward VII, George V, 3x QE (i.e. no pre-Victoria, no shield back, no George VI, no 1983-2000 QE), so I had something to get aquainted with.

That was for starters; today I have around 150 different sovereigns.

The handful of 1 oz proofs (Dragon, White Horse and Griffin) that I see at dealers go for 115-120€ which is pretty much the 150$ mentioned above.