TheMadKing

A wonderful Half Sovereign.  Thanks@SamG 

I decided to buy my first coin last Thursday after joining the forum. Started with a 1/4oz Britannia and decided I would only get myself one a month and not be silly.
Five days later I now have a 1oz Britannia, 1oz TB Yule of Beaufort, 1/4oz TB Lion of England, a 2022 double sovereign and three sovereigns. There's also a 1oz TB Lion due tomorrow and a 5 sovereign BU on back order with RM.
You're all bad influences 😁

I guess bad for both......I like to collect knowing that it is/will be a limited edition.

Incorrect. Ive just got mine commissioned, by H.Bullyun aged 5 and three quarters

Received today 2016 Three-Coin Premium Set

1/4 Bullion Sovereign 

Strip club token from Blackpool 
 

Thank you to the metal detecting god's, just found this in field 100m from house.

The Order of St. George:

Well actually a wood carving, probably made in the Austrian South Tyrol about 40 years ago. It is supposedly hand carved.
I admired it at the house of a Little Old Lady in Bavaria some years ago.
When she died, she left the house to our Munich friends, and this was in the cellar among many other personal possessions for disposal.
They gave it to me.
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2022 5 coin proof set. @Darr3nG🤗
 

I had a bit of a wishful thought about the next set of coins in the Great Engravers series.
Imagine if they did some of the iconic and rare St. George and the Dragon interpretations.
So…
 
1817 Sovereign by Benedetto Pistrucci

 
1845 Prince Albert Medal by William Wyon



1910 Pattern Crown by A G Wyon

 
1935 Silver Jubilee Crown by Percy Metcalfe

They say the boss is having it away with them on one of those gold leaf and red velvet  theatre chairs in the office 

Suppose it gives us all some more time to save up for them.  We still betting it’s the William Wyon St George? 

Today I received...
Well, ok, they didn't all show up today, they've been assembled over a six month period. But the last one DID just show up this week, so I'm posting anyways.
Here's a nice mini-collection of Romanian gold pieces in terrific condition. Eastern European gold coinage can be tough to collect, with its unfortunate combination of low mintages and war/revolution/political unrest.
The coins:
1. 1883 20 Lei - LMU standard 0.1867AGW - Minted in Bucharest, 185,290 pieces. King Carol I on the obverse, crowned and draped coat of arms on the reverse. Edge lettering that reads "PATRIA*SI DREPTUL*MEU" (Homeland And My Right).
2. 1890 20 Lei - LMU standard 0.1867AGW - Minted in Bucharest, 196,000 pieces. King Carol I on the obverse, crowned and draped coat of arms on the reverse. Edge lettering that reads "PATRIA*SI DREPTUL*MEU" (Homeland And My Right).
3. 1906 circulating commemorative 20 Lei - LMU standard 0.1867AGW - Minted in Brussels, Belgium, 15,000 pieces. Obverse and reverse both portraits of King Carol I. Milled edge.
4. 1944 Ardealul Nostru medallion, a commemorative issued to mark the liberation of areas of northern Transylvania that were annexed by Hungary in 1940 with the support of Nazi Germany.
Nominally assigned a value of 20 Lei, although not to LMU standards - it mirrors the same size/fineness/weight of the debased 100 Franc - 21mm, 6.55g, 0.1895AGW.
Obverse depicts overlapped busts of Michael the Brave, King Ferdinand, and King Michael. Reverse is a crowned eagle surrounded by the coats of arms of the annexed Transylvanian counties. Edge lettering that reads "NIHIL SINE DEO" (Nothing Without God).
Minted in Vienna, 1,000,000 pieces, though its anyone's guess how many survived the end of WWII and all that came after in this part of the world. Many thanks to @DuncanWylieWilson for this piece that completes my little Romanian mini-collection. Off to deep storage for my ungrateful heirs to one day auction off 😂😂😂

Finally received my set back from NGC. The 2016 James Butler Effigy Five Coin Sovereign Set grade P(er)F(ect)70 with the portrait facing the front. The aesthetics of the portrait divides opinion but with only 525 sets ever made of an effigy that is only used in 2016 on a sovereign of the longest reigning UK monarch, as time goes on it’ll be a sought after set. Definitely a keeper for me

A very clean 2019 Delhi sovereign from @Chrispringle85  Been after one of these for a while as they are becoming difficult to find. Marsh 357A
 
 

Picked up 6 more sovs - paid a good price. Interestingly i heard the guy who owned the pawn shop say to his colleague “might aswel get rid of them now before the a*se falls out”. I guess he is expecting gold to tank soon.
One of the sovs is from another shop, who only had one in. He said they don’t have many in as “everyone is saving in gold at the moment “. 
 
Two quite different outlooks!

I could be mistaken, but I thought the SOTD jubilee sovereign was put on the website the day after all the other jubilee coins went on sale.

I think if they were going to do a SOTD they would have listed it today along with the other coins but as "No Longer Available"  they have done that with the previous 2 sotd, I could be wrong tho will just have to wait and see

The phrase "at the moment" is quite interesting - especially as there are still 29 days to go.  I suppose it would take all of ten minutes to design a privy mark ("W" over "40")!
The fact that the RM does not like to tell people when they are going to release new coins, means either they are hoping that everyone is expecting a SOTD and so no publicity is needed – or they are not releasing a Prince William SOTD and so there is nothing to publicise.
Perhaps more telling is the silence from dealers.  They haven’t said they don’t know if a SOTD isn’t going to be released.  The implication of such silence could be taken to meaning they do know whether a SOTD will be released – but that the RM’s embargo prevents them from saying!
Whatever the outcome I think it is crazy that the RM does not at least publish a list of coin release dates.

Just spoke to them on the phone "doesn't seem like they have any plans for it at the moment"

Indeed, why would they be described as such, I mean, it's not like they went around vandalising private property and then joined the British Union of Fascists.
https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/overview/startsuffragette-/
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/04/why-the-british-union-fascist-movement-appealed-to-so-many-women.html

1/4 Bullion Sovereign