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I know everyone’s been raving about these but I was late to the game and paid the price! Glad to say I’m really pleased with this and even at a premium consider it money well spent. Is Perth Mint the best in the world at the moment?
 

I know everyone’s been raving about these but I was late to the game and paid the price! Glad to say I’m really pleased with this and even at a premium consider it money well spent. Is Perth Mint the best in the world at the moment?
 

I know everyone’s been raving about these but I was late to the game and paid the price! Glad to say I’m really pleased with this and even at a premium consider it money well spent. Is Perth Mint the best in the world at the moment?
 

I know everyone’s been raving about these but I was late to the game and paid the price! Glad to say I’m really pleased with this and even at a premium consider it money well spent. Is Perth Mint the best in the world at the moment?
 

I know everyone’s been raving about these but I was late to the game and paid the price! Glad to say I’m really pleased with this and even at a premium consider it money well spent. Is Perth Mint the best in the world at the moment?
 

I know everyone’s been raving about these but I was late to the game and paid the price! Glad to say I’m really pleased with this and even at a premium consider it money well spent. Is Perth Mint the best in the world at the moment?
 

I know everyone’s been raving about these but I was late to the game and paid the price! Glad to say I’m really pleased with this and even at a premium consider it money well spent. Is Perth Mint the best in the world at the moment?
 

If all you had to go on was the coins put out by the Royal Mint you might easily come to that conclusion. It quite annoys me how poor their effort was - four landmarks- all in London, all within the same three or four square miles. They don’t even represent bloody London particularly well. However, if they had been the opening foursome of a countrywide set- maybe four designs per county and four per city- each four by a different artist- you’d think it was a shaky start with far better things yet to come; Stonehenge; the Seven Sisters cliffs; Blackpool Tower; the Angel of the North; the Clifton Suspension Bridge; etc, etc. You could even think laterally and have things like the Grand National it’s such a huge and open brief I’m sure artists would have been tripping over each other to land such a dream job.
Maybe the Perth Mint would like to do it- it could go on for years, decades even.

Well, that must be cause y'all don't have any good landmarks...  😉

Beautiful, are you displaying them all together or leaving them in the boxes? I put mine in a large Lighthouse case with twenty-four coins on each tray, placing them in chronological order (obviously) and leaving gaps for ones I didn’t have. I found that the gaps really bugged me and made me buy more often than I would otherwise have done. 
Funnily enough I had this delivered yesterday- only a tiddler (1/5th oz) but nice nontheless. 

Beautiful, are you displaying them all together or leaving them in the boxes? I put mine in a large Lighthouse case with twenty-four coins on each tray, placing them in chronological order (obviously) and leaving gaps for ones I didn’t have. I found that the gaps really bugged me and made me buy more often than I would otherwise have done. 
Funnily enough I had this delivered yesterday- only a tiddler (1/5th oz) but nice nontheless. 

Beautiful, are you displaying them all together or leaving them in the boxes? I put mine in a large Lighthouse case with twenty-four coins on each tray, placing them in chronological order (obviously) and leaving gaps for ones I didn’t have. I found that the gaps really bugged me and made me buy more often than I would otherwise have done. 
Funnily enough I had this delivered yesterday- only a tiddler (1/5th oz) but nice nontheless. 

2012 Silver Proof Mareeba Rock Wallaby   Another beautiful design from the RAM in its $1 Silver Kangaroo collection,  engraved by Wojciech Pietranik, most famous for his Sunset Roo designs. The quality of the strike and design have been adroitly capturedby TSF's premier photograher, @CadmiumGreen.

Loved the first two. Third (tiger) I disliked so much I didn't bother getting it.

The liberties are so much more historical then the st gaudins...maybe cos i owned a bunch of sg's and got used to seeing them..but the liberties are more like the capped, draped, flowing...just more animated in my opinion.

Thanks to @Troy77  for 3 very nice bars 😁

A mob of the 2020 RAM Frosted Red Roos bounded into my porch this morning. They are much more attractive than the online photos had led me to believe. The 28th "Frostie" and this series is still going strong.




 
Beautiful box courtesy of @morezone :
 

Looks like this is the dragon bar apprechiation thread now
I like @StevenDS idea of buying a whole tube for each year. I need more 2018's.

For centuries, mariners have reported strange sightings of a massive, shipwrecking sea monster; the "Kraken". The beast was said to be so big it could be mistaken for an island, with tentacles powerful enough to tear a ship in two.
Two Ounce Kraken Silver Coin is the first release of the brand new “Creatures of the North” coin series from the Royal Canadian Mint. The series is set to have two releases every year starting in 2020.
The Creatures of the North series will celebrate the fantastic and mysterious creatures of Canada’s seas, lands and skies.
Denomination: 10 Dollars
Metal Content: 2 Troy Ounce (62.67 Grams)
Purity: .9999
On pre sale in Europe
https://goldsilver.be/en/home/3156-canada-2-oz-silver-creatures-of-the-north-the-kraken-2020-10.html
Asia
https://www.lpm.hk/2020-2-oz-canada-creatures-of-the-north-series-the-kraken-9999-silver-coin-bu.html
USA/Canada
https://www.artincoins.com/products/2020-canada-2-ounce-kraken-creatures-of-the-north-9999-silver-coin?_pos=1&_sid=eb1bd2f32&_ss=r
https://sdbullion.com/2020-2-oz-canadian-kraken-silver-coin
https://www.apmex.com/product/206752/2020-canada-2-oz-silver-creatures-of-the-north-kraken
 
 
 
Personally I love the design of the Kraken and hope the rest of the series will rise to the occasion. 

Available in December

Agreed and the fact they have gone into so much detail like having blackbeards actual flag on there as well as the skull in the clouds is a big plus in my eyes

What distinguishes the Black Flag Series from these is the Black Flag have, and presumably the rest have actually got historical pirates and not random images. I like that aspect 

Completely agree. Normally Martin’s distinctive high contrast “soot ‘n’ whitewash” photography shows coins off very well but it didn’t do the mammoth any favours. If it hadn’t been a low mintage first of a series I’d probably have left it. Glad I didn’t.

Coincidentally, I took delivery of my two from SilverTrader today - again not affiliated with Martin, but a very happy customer too! I must say, the photos don't do these coins justice. They are a hell of a lot smarter up close and personal.