Seth

Good one, you got me, you had me spending a good day or two trawling through your website, various other bullion dealers websites, and searching through the internet using every possible phrase I could think of looking for those so called ''very rare versions with a Freddie Mercury or Spike Edney fingerprint'' - I did however come across a very very nice silver Queen  coin that uses the Album cover from Queen II on one side of the coin and their logo/emblem on the other side.
Nice one, I take my hat off to you sir, you played me well.

I spoke to Doug, our photographer, today, and mentioned the differences. He had noticed, and tried to show the frosting on the gold, but thinks it was not as distinct as on the silver. I have no idea why, except you theory is that the RM got lazy, is possibly very close to the truth, speaking of which...
The fingerprints idea was not true at all, simply my sense of humour. Sorry about that!
 

I bought a few  of these gold Queen bullion coins, as well as some of the silver versions, I didn't buy any of the gold gilded silver Queen coins - I think gilded coins look cheap and tackey, and I have to say that from an asthetic point of view, in my opinion, the silver Queen bullion coins look far far nicer, these coins are meant to show the chord progression of ''Bohemian Rhapsody'' on  the piano keys - D, F, G for those of you inerested, by ''frosting'' those three notes on the piano, this can clearly be seen on the silver bullion version of this coin, even from a few feet away - yes it's that obvious on the silver bullion version, yet on the gold version the three ''frosted'' piano keys are next to impossible to make out even holding the coin a few inches from your face, it's a real shame in my opinion, it's as if they put far more effort into the minting of the silver bullion version of this coin than they did the gold version and just assumed that ''gold Queen coin'' was good enough, as apposed to putting the extra effort into geting the finer details of the design right on the gold version.  Even the good picture @LawrenceChard posted of the gold version of the coin shows that it's very very hard to notice the frosted D, F, and G keys unless you know what your looking for and where to look, and that's afer the photo which was taken by somebody who knows how to and is good at photographing coins has photographed this coin using professional equipment set up for photographing coins in an environment suited to photographing coins and has then run the unedited photograph through photoshop, tweaked, highlighted, played with contrasts played with even colour saturation and hue, if you can barely make the frosted keys out after all that post photo editing, imagine what the details in this coin looks like, or doesn't, without all the photoshop enhanchments.

To me this is too much effort:
 
And so is this:
Personally I would go about getting him to sign my C.O.A. in a different way:
I'd first go out and catch myself a badger - be careful they're grumpy little buggers, preferably a very photogenic example of the species, the more photogenic it is the better.  Then I'd make a film of myself threatening the little beast, the more convincing you can make this look the better, so don't be afraid to break out the steak knife to hold against the animals throat, I'd film myself - obvioulsy hiding my facial features, looking directly into the camera, and saying in a slow, clear, calm, controlled and even tone saying, ''Brian May, if you don't sign my Queen coin certificate of authenticity, I'll skin this badger alive'', I would then put down the knife, and start stroking the beast making sure that I make lots of eye contact with it, then look back up directly at the camera and again in a slow, clear, calm, controlled and even tone say, ''Brian May, only you can save this magnificent animal's life, all you have to do is to send me an email [this is where I would have a burner encrypted email account like hushmail appear on the screen], with an address to send you my certificate of authenticity to, and I will then send you my certificate of authenticity as well as my address so you can send it back to me, once you have signed it.  Once I have received my signed certificate of authenticity, I will set the badger free, and upload a proof of life and release video, should you involve the authorities, I will skin the beast alive, and leave it to run around naked'', remember slow, clear, calm, controlled and even tone, you don't want to come across as a nut job, nor do you want to come across as somebody unwilling or unable to go through with it, you want to come across as somebody who is capable of doing i without breaking a sweat or losing a minutes sleep over it.  I would then upload this video to Youtube/FaceBook/Twitter and every video hosting site/social media/social network site that I can think of sit back and wait for it to go viral, which it will.  Brian May havining the soft spot for badgers that he does will reply to your video within hours.  Now here comes the tricky part, for obvious reasons you don't want to give Brian May your real address, you'll want to give him the address of somebody who's property you not only have access to, but more importantly thinks you really like them, your mother in law fills this need perefectly, they were practically invented for this, so when you send Brian May your certificate of authenticity to sign, send him your mother in law's address to post it back to you singed.
Remember this is just a hypothetical suggestion, I'm not advocating that you go out and capture - snare traps work best by the way, a badger, yet alone use it too blackmail Brian May into signing your C.O.A. for you.

I don't think so, how many times now has Liam Neeson had his daugher kidnapped now 6 or 7 times now?  I'm extremely surprised that the child protection services haven't pulled him aside to have a word with him about his parenting skills after the second time, and extremely surprised that they didn't take the child off of him after the third time for the child's own protection and safety, even Mr Bean managed to keep a child safe.

Seth, if they release a ‘Taken’ coin, you’re in trouble. A world of pain awaits.

To me this is too much effort:
 
And so is this:
Personally I would go about getting him to sign my C.O.A. in a different way:
I'd first go out and catch myself a badger - be careful they're grumpy little buggers, preferably a very photogenic example of the species, the more photogenic it is the better.  Then I'd make a film of myself threatening the little beast, the more convincing you can make this look the better, so don't be afraid to break out the steak knife to hold against the animals throat, I'd film myself - obvioulsy hiding my facial features, looking directly into the camera, and saying in a slow, clear, calm, controlled and even tone saying, ''Brian May, if you don't sign my Queen coin certificate of authenticity, I'll skin this badger alive'', I would then put down the knife, and start stroking the beast making sure that I make lots of eye contact with it, then look back up directly at the camera and again in a slow, clear, calm, controlled and even tone say, ''Brian May, only you can save this magnificent animal's life, all you have to do is to send me an email [this is where I would have a burner encrypted email account like hushmail appear on the screen], with an address to send you my certificate of authenticity to, and I will then send you my certificate of authenticity as well as my address so you can send it back to me, once you have signed it.  Once I have received my signed certificate of authenticity, I will set the badger free, and upload a proof of life and release video, should you involve the authorities, I will skin the beast alive, and leave it to run around naked'', remember slow, clear, calm, controlled and even tone, you don't want to come across as a nut job, nor do you want to come across as somebody unwilling or unable to go through with it, you want to come across as somebody who is capable of doing i without breaking a sweat or losing a minutes sleep over it.  I would then upload this video to Youtube/FaceBook/Twitter and every video hosting site/social media/social network site that I can think of sit back and wait for it to go viral, which it will.  Brian May havining the soft spot for badgers that he does will reply to your video within hours.  Now here comes the tricky part, for obvious reasons you don't want to give Brian May your real address, you'll want to give him the address of somebody who's property you not only have access to, but more importantly thinks you really like them, your mother in law fills this need perefectly, they were practically invented for this, so when you send Brian May your certificate of authenticity to sign, send him your mother in law's address to post it back to you singed.
Remember this is just a hypothetical suggestion, I'm not advocating that you go out and capture - snare traps work best by the way, a badger, yet alone use it too blackmail Brian May into signing your C.O.A. for you.

To me this is too much effort:
 
And so is this:
Personally I would go about getting him to sign my C.O.A. in a different way:
I'd first go out and catch myself a badger - be careful they're grumpy little buggers, preferably a very photogenic example of the species, the more photogenic it is the better.  Then I'd make a film of myself threatening the little beast, the more convincing you can make this look the better, so don't be afraid to break out the steak knife to hold against the animals throat, I'd film myself - obvioulsy hiding my facial features, looking directly into the camera, and saying in a slow, clear, calm, controlled and even tone saying, ''Brian May, if you don't sign my Queen coin certificate of authenticity, I'll skin this badger alive'', I would then put down the knife, and start stroking the beast making sure that I make lots of eye contact with it, then look back up directly at the camera and again in a slow, clear, calm, controlled and even tone say, ''Brian May, only you can save this magnificent animal's life, all you have to do is to send me an email [this is where I would have a burner encrypted email account like hushmail appear on the screen], with an address to send you my certificate of authenticity to, and I will then send you my certificate of authenticity as well as my address so you can send it back to me, once you have signed it.  Once I have received my signed certificate of authenticity, I will set the badger free, and upload a proof of life and release video, should you involve the authorities, I will skin the beast alive, and leave it to run around naked'', remember slow, clear, calm, controlled and even tone, you don't want to come across as a nut job, nor do you want to come across as somebody unwilling or unable to go through with it, you want to come across as somebody who is capable of doing i without breaking a sweat or losing a minutes sleep over it.  I would then upload this video to Youtube/FaceBook/Twitter and every video hosting site/social media/social network site that I can think of sit back and wait for it to go viral, which it will.  Brian May havining the soft spot for badgers that he does will reply to your video within hours.  Now here comes the tricky part, for obvious reasons you don't want to give Brian May your real address, you'll want to give him the address of somebody who's property you not only have access to, but more importantly thinks you really like them, your mother in law fills this need perefectly, they were practically invented for this, so when you send Brian May your certificate of authenticity to sign, send him your mother in law's address to post it back to you singed.
Remember this is just a hypothetical suggestion, I'm not advocating that you go out and capture - snare traps work best by the way, a badger, yet alone use it too blackmail Brian May into signing your C.O.A. for you.

I'd like to see a Sex Pistols coin!
Reverse:

 
Obverse:
 

 
 

They've become a dying bread, hell the last U.K. tour I was employed for people actually complained about the quality of the lip syncing, not about the fact that they were  lip syncing instead of actually singing - which they couldn't do to save their lives, but the fact that they where bad a it, people were actually demanding refunds because of how bad the lip syncing was, personally I'd demand a refund for lip syncing I don't care how good they are at miming.  Yeh, auto tune, and elastic time has done a lot to damage my industry, I blame Pro Tools.
 
A serious suggestion for who I'd think would be great to have on a coin, The Pet Shop Boys

Beatles and Elton John I recon.
Then Milli Vanilli 😂😂

I honestly can't see even a third of the bands you have mentioned allowing the Royal Mint to issue coins with their logos or representations on them.  Take The Beatles for example Yoko is currently fighting several lawsuits with John Lennon's children over his legacy, use of likeness, and dozens of other things, and not just by his first son Julian, but also the son he had with Yoko, Sean.  Then there is also the current hassle that Yoko is causing Ringo and Paul, after Ringo had found the tape of a song John Lennon was working on but was murdered before he finished it.  Lennon actually sent Ringo the tape asking for his input and collaboration on it, but John Lennon was murded, Ringo put it away being unable to deal with listening to the last thing one of his best friends was working on in it's raw unfinished format just before he was murdered, and over the years as time went by he forget about it and where he stored the tape for safe keeping, he recently found the tape not too long ago, got in touch with Paul, and the last two surviving Beatles finished the song - as per John Lennon's wishes for Ringo to help him with it and collaborate wih him on it, and Ringo released the song on his latest album, Yoko's still in the process of taking Ringo, and Paul to court over this.
As for The Who, given Pete Townshends legal issues from not too long ago  - remember that research he was doing for a book he was working on that never materalised, or his so called prevention program, Keith Moon's daughter Amanda would be very against it due to her fathers notorious behaviour, antics and stance, she's very protective over his legacy and wouldn't allow anything that would even slighly tarnish his antiestablishment reputation, Entwistle originally left The Who on very very unfriendly terms, he was very reluctingly dragged into preforming wih them again shortly before his death in 2001, he died in 2002, Daltrey is the only one I could see allowing it to be done, but he is very very protecive over his image, so he would want to practically design the coin himself just incase they used something he didn't consider flattering enough.
As for Led Zepplin, just look at the reason why they broke up, and other than their disastrous preformance in Philadelphia with Phil Collins on drums - it was the American version of Bob Geldof's and Midge Ure's Live Aid Phil Collins preformed first at Wembley Stadium before being jetted off on a charered concorde flight to preform with Led Zepplin in Philadelphia until recently as in until Youtube took off it was impossible to see this preformance unless you where there it was never released on VHS, Laser Disc, DVD... it was that bad Paige and Plant did everything that they could to prevent it's release even Phil Collins called the preformance an absolute nightmare and disaster, and a few gigs - not even a full tour tour with Bonham's son on drums have refused to play as or reform Led Zepplin - they would be nothing more than a cover band constently playing songs they wrote in their heyday and would never be allowed to play, write or record any new material, Paige actually stated that was the reason for retiring Led Zepplin, not just the death of the irreplaceable Bonham.
There are also los of reason's why I can't see the Rolling Stones allowing it to happen - how many people here can even name their drummer, piano player or bass player without using Professor Google.  Watts was replaced until recently, and people don't know these musicians and a host of other musicians who where with the Rolling Stones at the start and who have been replaced by either temps or new full time members over the years.  There is a reason why the focus is purely on Jagger, Richards and Wood, Jones has been practically written ou of the Rolling Stones history - something that really really upset Wyman especially when the blue plaque commemorating the forming of the Rolling Stones was put up at that train station hell he even walked out on the Stones decades ago, yet I bet nobady here can name who eventually became his full time replacement without the help of Professor Googlde, and there have literally been dozens of temp replacements, before they finally settled on a full time replacement and he gets no publicity
I can also see dozens of reasons hy I can't see Pink Floyd allowing it to happen, especially coming from the Barrett estate.  Gilmore, and Walters wouldn't let him leave the band, he was even begging to leave Pink Floyd, he had to force his way out by writting a song - I think it was called ''Have You Got It Yet'', that was so complex and kept changing that it couldn't be finished yet alone recorded before Gilmore and Walters finally got the hint that Barrett wanted nothing more to do with the band, and that if they wouldn't let him leave, he'd take the entire band down with him.
As a self confessed music junkie and a huge Stones, Zepplin and Beatles fan, I'd love to see these coins happening, christ knows that I've spent a fortune over the years on instruments and items actually used by these bands, but I can't see it happening.

I honestly can't see even a third of the bands you have mentioned allowing the Royal Mint to issue coins with their logos or representations on them.  Take The Beatles for example Yoko is currently fighting several lawsuits with John Lennon's children over his legacy, use of likeness, and dozens of other things, and not just by his first son Julian, but also the son he had with Yoko, Sean.  Then there is also the current hassle that Yoko is causing Ringo and Paul, after Ringo had found the tape of a song John Lennon was working on but was murdered before he finished it.  Lennon actually sent Ringo the tape asking for his input and collaboration on it, but John Lennon was murded, Ringo put it away being unable to deal with listening to the last thing one of his best friends was working on in it's raw unfinished format just before he was murdered, and over the years as time went by he forget about it and where he stored the tape for safe keeping, he recently found the tape not too long ago, got in touch with Paul, and the last two surviving Beatles finished the song - as per John Lennon's wishes for Ringo to help him with it and collaborate wih him on it, and Ringo released the song on his latest album, Yoko's still in the process of taking Ringo, and Paul to court over this.
As for The Who, given Pete Townshends legal issues from not too long ago  - remember that research he was doing for a book he was working on that never materalised, or his so called prevention program, Keith Moon's daughter Amanda would be very against it due to her fathers notorious behaviour, antics and stance, she's very protective over his legacy and wouldn't allow anything that would even slighly tarnish his antiestablishment reputation, Entwistle originally left The Who on very very unfriendly terms, he was very reluctingly dragged into preforming wih them again shortly before his death in 2001, he died in 2002, Daltrey is the only one I could see allowing it to be done, but he is very very protecive over his image, so he would want to practically design the coin himself just incase they used something he didn't consider flattering enough.
As for Led Zepplin, just look at the reason why they broke up, and other than their disastrous preformance in Philadelphia with Phil Collins on drums - it was the American version of Bob Geldof's and Midge Ure's Live Aid Phil Collins preformed first at Wembley Stadium before being jetted off on a charered concorde flight to preform with Led Zepplin in Philadelphia until recently as in until Youtube took off it was impossible to see this preformance unless you where there it was never released on VHS, Laser Disc, DVD... it was that bad Paige and Plant did everything that they could to prevent it's release even Phil Collins called the preformance an absolute nightmare and disaster, and a few gigs - not even a full tour tour with Bonham's son on drums have refused to play as or reform Led Zepplin - they would be nothing more than a cover band constently playing songs they wrote in their heyday and would never be allowed to play, write or record any new material, Paige actually stated that was the reason for retiring Led Zepplin, not just the death of the irreplaceable Bonham.
There are also los of reason's why I can't see the Rolling Stones allowing it to happen - how many people here can even name their drummer, piano player or bass player without using Professor Google.  Watts was replaced until recently, and people don't know these musicians and a host of other musicians who where with the Rolling Stones at the start and who have been replaced by either temps or new full time members over the years.  There is a reason why the focus is purely on Jagger, Richards and Wood, Jones has been practically written ou of the Rolling Stones history - something that really really upset Wyman especially when the blue plaque commemorating the forming of the Rolling Stones was put up at that train station hell he even walked out on the Stones decades ago, yet I bet nobady here can name who eventually became his full time replacement without the help of Professor Googlde, and there have literally been dozens of temp replacements, before they finally settled on a full time replacement and he gets no publicity
I can also see dozens of reasons hy I can't see Pink Floyd allowing it to happen, especially coming from the Barrett estate.  Gilmore, and Walters wouldn't let him leave the band, he was even begging to leave Pink Floyd, he had to force his way out by writting a song - I think it was called ''Have You Got It Yet'', that was so complex and kept changing that it couldn't be finished yet alone recorded before Gilmore and Walters finally got the hint that Barrett wanted nothing more to do with the band, and that if they wouldn't let him leave, he'd take the entire band down with him.
As a self confessed music junkie and a huge Stones, Zepplin and Beatles fan, I'd love to see these coins happening, christ knows that I've spent a fortune over the years on instruments and items actually used by these bands, but I can't see it happening.

And I would walk 500 miles to not see a Proclaimers - AKA The Dodgey Ginger Twins, coin.  Though The Corries, the Scottish folk band who wrote Flower of Scotland - that song is nowhere near as old as most people think it was writen in the mid to late 60's, would be an interesting choice for Scotland, though I can understand why they wouldn't be chosen, because of Flower of Scotland - just listen to or read the lyrics.  The Humblebums, the Scottish folk band Billy Connolly and Gerry Rafferty were in before they went their seperate ways, Billy Connolly to become a standup comedian, and Gerry Rafferty to continue with his musical career, would also be an interesting choice for Scotland, though I suspect that The Humblebums are far too obscure and too few people even know about them, yet alone that Billy Connolly and Gerry Rafferty actually started their careers in a Scottish folk band except for music junkies like myself, as Billy Connolly described why they broke up, ''the jokes got longer, and the songs got shorter''.
Van Morrison, especially his collaboration with the Irish folk band The Chieftains, would make an excellant coin choice for Northern Ireland, especially if they somehow incorporated the song ''Irish Heartbeat'' into somehow, perhaps having the line, ''Stay a while with your own ones'' on the inner circumference of the coin.

I honestly can't see even a third of the bands you have mentioned allowing the Royal Mint to issue coins with their logos or representations on them.  Take The Beatles for example Yoko is currently fighting several lawsuits with John Lennon's children over his legacy, use of likeness, and dozens of other things, and not just by his first son Julian, but also the son he had with Yoko, Sean.  Then there is also the current hassle that Yoko is causing Ringo and Paul, after Ringo had found the tape of a song John Lennon was working on but was murdered before he finished it.  Lennon actually sent Ringo the tape asking for his input and collaboration on it, but John Lennon was murded, Ringo put it away being unable to deal with listening to the last thing one of his best friends was working on in it's raw unfinished format just before he was murdered, and over the years as time went by he forget about it and where he stored the tape for safe keeping, he recently found the tape not too long ago, got in touch with Paul, and the last two surviving Beatles finished the song - as per John Lennon's wishes for Ringo to help him with it and collaborate wih him on it, and Ringo released the song on his latest album, Yoko's still in the process of taking Ringo, and Paul to court over this.
As for The Who, given Pete Townshends legal issues from not too long ago  - remember that research he was doing for a book he was working on that never materalised, or his so called prevention program, Keith Moon's daughter Amanda would be very against it due to her fathers notorious behaviour, antics and stance, she's very protective over his legacy and wouldn't allow anything that would even slighly tarnish his antiestablishment reputation, Entwistle originally left The Who on very very unfriendly terms, he was very reluctingly dragged into preforming wih them again shortly before his death in 2001, he died in 2002, Daltrey is the only one I could see allowing it to be done, but he is very very protecive over his image, so he would want to practically design the coin himself just incase they used something he didn't consider flattering enough.
As for Led Zepplin, just look at the reason why they broke up, and other than their disastrous preformance in Philadelphia with Phil Collins on drums - it was the American version of Bob Geldof's and Midge Ure's Live Aid Phil Collins preformed first at Wembley Stadium before being jetted off on a charered concorde flight to preform with Led Zepplin in Philadelphia until recently as in until Youtube took off it was impossible to see this preformance unless you where there it was never released on VHS, Laser Disc, DVD... it was that bad Paige and Plant did everything that they could to prevent it's release even Phil Collins called the preformance an absolute nightmare and disaster, and a few gigs - not even a full tour tour with Bonham's son on drums have refused to play as or reform Led Zepplin - they would be nothing more than a cover band constently playing songs they wrote in their heyday and would never be allowed to play, write or record any new material, Paige actually stated that was the reason for retiring Led Zepplin, not just the death of the irreplaceable Bonham.
There are also los of reason's why I can't see the Rolling Stones allowing it to happen - how many people here can even name their drummer, piano player or bass player without using Professor Google.  Watts was replaced until recently, and people don't know these musicians and a host of other musicians who where with the Rolling Stones at the start and who have been replaced by either temps or new full time members over the years.  There is a reason why the focus is purely on Jagger, Richards and Wood, Jones has been practically written ou of the Rolling Stones history - something that really really upset Wyman especially when the blue plaque commemorating the forming of the Rolling Stones was put up at that train station hell he even walked out on the Stones decades ago, yet I bet nobady here can name who eventually became his full time replacement without the help of Professor Googlde, and there have literally been dozens of temp replacements, before they finally settled on a full time replacement and he gets no publicity
I can also see dozens of reasons hy I can't see Pink Floyd allowing it to happen, especially coming from the Barrett estate.  Gilmore, and Walters wouldn't let him leave the band, he was even begging to leave Pink Floyd, he had to force his way out by writting a song - I think it was called ''Have You Got It Yet'', that was so complex and kept changing that it couldn't be finished yet alone recorded before Gilmore and Walters finally got the hint that Barrett wanted nothing more to do with the band, and that if they wouldn't let him leave, he'd take the entire band down with him.
As a self confessed music junkie and a huge Stones, Zepplin and Beatles fan, I'd love to see these coins happening, christ knows that I've spent a fortune over the years on instruments and items actually used by these bands, but I can't see it happening.