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All three of them, Künker, Frühwald and Rauch, are reputable auction houses. I have been bidding in their auctions a lot, and I bought from Künker's shop (a batch of slabbed 1 and 2 Rands 🤩, and more). No issues whatsoever. Künker is also among the people behind the Sixbid bidding platform.

I am certain the coin will be withdrawn once they had a look at it. On the other hand, I would likely have bid on it, even knowing it to be fake or manipulated.

Someone was typing faster 😉

5 minutes ago, Airhead said:

Whilst I would not say I am an expert, as far as I know if it is from the London mint then there will not be a mint mark. Only those minted in the (as then) colonies will have mint marks. Someone will be along soon to give a definitive answer, but it looks ok to me.

The 1917 London Sovereign is one of the rarest pieces around. Although 1 million were made, only a one-digit number survived, and they sell for five-digit sums, if not more. That's what came to my attention immediately. Branch mint 1917 sovereigns are plentiful, so skillfully filing away the mintmark to create a London (no mintmark) impression would be my assumption. 

Hi all,

An Austrian auction will be offering a 1917 Sovereign next month. Probably everyone would agree that it can't be genuine. What do you think is it? A mintmark manipulation maybe?

https://www.sixbid.com/de/auktionen-fruehwald/8579/-/7148406/grossbritannien-george-v-1910

Not today but throughout the week, these three coins arrived:

A Lunar III mouse with yet another Privy Mark ('Harvest'), mintage 5300 or so;

1 Oz Silver Proof and the sheet metal Completer, after a full 20 day delay at Langley Heathrow Worldwide Distribution Centre. At least, nobody charged any customs upon delivery. Seems I was lucky ☺️

54 minutes ago, SidS said:

George V eye looks very baggy, like he's had a heavy night on the town...

Yes, but to me the hair texture was the fishiest thing. 

17 hours ago, SilverStorm said:

Noob question here...

Is there a difference between a fake and an imitation?   My understand (which could be wrong) is that a fake tries to pretend it’s the original but doesn’t have the correct or actual metal content.  In the above case, this coin does have the correct metal percentage.  So is it a fake?  

 I would assume this coin is an imitation as it copies the original, has the correct metal content, just not minted by the Royal Mint (or whatever mint that actually makes the actual coin).  With an imitation, you could at least melt it down for actual gold content.  

Or do we use fake and imitation interchangeably, having the same meaning?   🤔

I would say: If it's not original it is a fake. In the above examples, the degree of a buyer's loss is different but both are fake. 

For the sake of curiosity, I would not mind to have a fake sov in my collection. Just today one was auctioned here in Germany, fetching the same hammer price as the genuine ones. 

I completely missed this issue, and when I finally saw it, all the gold and the larger silver was gone. 

So I ordered the 1 oz Silver and the sheet metal piece. That's what I did for most Beasts. Let's see when it leaves the rainy island and arrives here in the rainy hillside of central-south Germany. 

Now, finally, I received my 2oz silver Three Graces. It was held for more than two weeks by Royal Mail at Langley, and another day or so by the waylayers at Frankfurt airport, and over the weekend at my local post office. No time and equipment so far to check for dents or scratches, but happy that the odyssee is over...

They charged customs and an additional fee but no German VAT ☺️, so I got it cheaper than UK customers. Given the market value of the piece (no way I am selling!) this wouldn't matter anyway - but the govt is the last place I want any of my money to go to.

Another order from RM, pre-dating (!) the 3G order, is still held somewhere at Langley, waiting to 'leave the UK'.

My stuff seemingly is held up at the Royal Mail. Even an earlier order from Feb 17 ist still listed as:

'Your item is now leaving the UK. More information will be available when it arrives in the destination country.'

Don't know if it is related to Brexit or the plague or a combination thereof.

8 minutes ago, Pipers said:

That was me with the Una What a mistake! 

Anyway.   IMO  If i was sending coins away i would be taking photos of the coins!  That way you have a finger print of the said coin. 

'Finger print' and 'coin' in one sentence sounds somehow frightening 😉

1 hour ago, Frenchie said:

But you will charged with import VAT, that's probably why you pay it without VAT in UK

Shhhhh! 🤐

My latest silver purchase (proof Griffin) went unnoticed.

5 minutes ago, JosephM said:

still available

It seems I got one 😊

Amazing how fast the queue moved forward. At first the credit card transaction didn't work (although with a different error message than two weeks ago) but the second time it worked.

Now number 923 in the queue. Hope the silver doesn't sell out before that...

There is not a lot of competition on the platinum coin market, so sellers get away with squeezing buyers.

That said, europeanmint is still the cheapest site I know (once they get supply, which for platinum doesn't seem to be easy nowadays). The Belgian site is slightly more expensive and gets a lot of bad press here (not from me), and sites here in Germany are *beeep* expensive.

On ‎08‎/‎07‎/‎2020 at 00:28, MrTT said:

Which german site ? 🙂

Many. See here:

https://www.gold.de/kaufen/platinmuenzen/kaenguru/#

But the prices aren't very ... competitive, I guess.

Just curious: Do we know which bands will be featured on the forthcoming Music Legends coins?

If Sex Pistols and/or Joy Division will be among them, I'd stay awake all night to be in time for ordering    Otherwise... I don't know...

Sh...! I started monitoring rhodium at about 3500$ and refrained from buying, waiting for it to fall.

This fall might still happen, but it will take a long time, I am afraid.

20 hours ago, AndrewSL76 said:

Not sure if this has already been confirmed (sorry if so) but the East India Co. have a gold version which is still for sale.

https://www.theeastindiacompany.com/products/the-2019-five-sovereign-gold-proof-coin/

I can't help but feel that someone may buy this thinking they are getting the Royal Mint version........

 

Crooks!  

The reverses look pretty alike (apart from the mintmarks), so one might think that they are deliberately trying to catch fools. I just wonder whether they had access to the original dies as well...

Ordered a silver piece too.

Initially I didn't want it because the color does not exactly match the original Una. Then I decided to go for it and to dye the capsule (not the coin!) in transparent yellow.

They look nice, and I am planning to buy a silver ounce.

On the other hand... Ghana and Ice Age fauna?    Come on...

Oh yes, everyone is right. It's not a Narrow Shield. I compared it to my hi-res photos of real Narrow Shields.

I wonder what happened - it is slabbed, after all - and what the buyer will do when he/she finds out...

Just for everyone's info:

There has been a 'narrow shield' sovereign up for auction earlier this month. Sold for 5000€ net.

https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=5312&category=167138&lot=4438685

With a zero less, I would have bid  

It was the first 'narrow shield' that I ever saw in an auction.