FunkyChicken

Yeah, you're right. Luckily I've only held it at the edges there. 

That's a small delivery!? 😳 Is there any room for me in your will? 😇😂

Finally received a silver order from The Silver Mountain that I placed last late September. 😂
I knew beforehand the 5oz Lunar - Year of the mouse had a 6 week lead time, but unfortunately that got topped up with an additional month due to delays. At least I have learned my lesson in the meanwhile 
The coin I'm actually the happiest with, and I consider it the pièce de résistance of this order, is the 2oz Ancient Egypt coin (which has some flakes of gold in its core). Surely I will have paid the motherload in premiums, but I'm just a sucker that had to have it. 😊

Finally received my silver order from GS.be today. Nothing at fault of GS.be, let's just say FedEx is just gawd awful. 
But anyway: I got me a 10 oz 2020 Kook, and 2 pieces each of the... 
* 1 oz Britannia 2020
* 1 oz Britannia 2019 oriental border 
* 1 oz Valiant 2019
* 30 gram Panda 2019
* 1 oz Canadian Voyageur 2017, and 
* 2 oz Mountie 2020

GS.be is fine enough when everything goes well (although I'm not a fan of them sending orders with FedEx, but you can't have it all), the sh*peep* only starts to hit the fan once you need their customer service.

Wouldn't mind me some poutine right now... 😂

Let's keep a long story short by saying your answer came across to me in a smartass kind of way. My bad, sorry about that.
But lesson learned, I just should have googled it before asking the question over here in the first place...

As far as I understood it, but correct me if I'm wrong, the tour itself is 95 pounds, and then the coin is 480, which seems like a fair price for what you get. 

...so just under a quarter of a Troy ounce. Thank you for sharing your inexhaustible wisdom by providing this oh so helpful answer... 

Based on the price of the Gold VIP tour (£480 according to https://www.royalmint.com/the-royal-mint-experience/vip), I assume that's not a 1 oz coin?

Nevertheless, cool experience!  Tempting to do this myself on one of the next times I'm going to the UK.

Think you'd have to custom make them yourself... 😂 Or you'd have to be creative and find yourself a see through lunch box or some other container. 

Receiving replacement coin capsules is one thing, getting those fnckers opened without ruiming them altogether is something else... 🤬

Received an order from the European Mint today, unfortunately I'm having mixed feelings about it with the history I'm already having with them.

So far I have placed and received 2 orders. The quality of the coins were good, however some of the coin capsules these coins were in have seen better days, which to me doesn't seem to be the result of damage caused by the travel from Estonia to the Netherlands, but the result of somewhat lacking quality control at the side of the European Mint.

I contacted them about it, they said it's normal (something that already wasn't quite boosting my enthusiasm), but as they like to keep their customers happy, they'd pop in some replacement coin capsules with my next order to them.

Ordered this 10oz Queen's Beasts Falcon and five 1oz Rectangle Dragons last week, and they arrived today (at least kudos for having gotten my order within a week), along with 3 capsules to replace the capsules the 10oz Queen's Beasts are in that have seen better days.

Somewhat sadly the result is similar to my previous 2 orders; the coins are in good condition, and that's the most important in the end of course , but the coin capsule of the Falcon isn't perfect (still acceptable, but definitely also not new), and the 3 replacement coin capsules definitely aren't new either, and one of them even has scratches on it.

All and all, it's luckily not as bad as with @Pete, who received a tube of Britannias from the European Mint that look as if somebody has been using them as plectrums to play guitar, but it has become clear to me the European Mint currently has some issues with their quality control. So I'm inclined to take my near future business elsewhere for now.

Hey, I'd take this any day of the week. 😂 Who he doesn't appreciate the small isn't worthy of the big. 😊

Order from The Silver Mountain arrived. Six 1oz 2019 coins in the Golden Ring version (Britannia, Philharmoniker, American Eagle, Maple Leaf, Wiener Neustadt, and the Kangaroo), one 10oz Magnificent Maple Leaf 2019, two 1oz Australian Wedge-tailed Eagles 2019, and five 1oz Kookaburras 2020. Both the coins and the capsules in perfect condition. 
 

Last week, I noticed the price for silver having taken a bit of a dive. So I, maybe naively, decided to use my budget for December to take a gamble by placing an order at GS.be, despite all the negative things I have seen and read about their customer service department. 
Luckily I didn't need them, and I must say, they shipped out very quickly. If it wasn't for FedEx being such a pain, I could have even had this last Monday already. 
Anyway, I did feel like making this more of a stacking order rather than a collectible one, and I decided to take a bit of pretty much everything... 😂 The coins (which all appear to be in great condition) are still in bags, I'll get busy repacking them into capsules tonight, but I have gotten me... 
3x 1oz Two Dragons, 1x 1oz Batavia, 4x 1oz Kangaroos, 4x 1oz American Eagles, 3x 1oz Maple Leaves, 2x 1oz Maple Leaves Superman, and the ones I'm the happiest with; 3x 2oz Canadian Mounted Police. 

And then I received something I ordered back in September. 😂
Let's just say I've learned my lesson to not order coins that come with a 4 to 6 week lead time. Especially when that coin is delayed by another two weeks, so I still don't have that yet. 🤦‍♂️I so not have the patience for that kind of sh*peep*... 😬
But okay, until that time I'll just feast my eyes out on the silver coins that I have received today: a 2oz White Lion of Mortimer, a 2oz Britannia & Germania Allegories (yep, it's terribly overpriced, but I also think it's pretty), another 10oz Magnificent Maple Leaf, and another 10oz Unicorn of Scotland. 😊
 
 
 

Pity. But oh well, guess you can at least consider yourself lucky you don't have an Eirexit to worry about, so trade with the rest of the EU won't be a massive b!tch for you.

Yeah, I have.  At least that's something to keep in mind.
True to having saved plenty of $€£ compared to purchasing in the UK.  Suppose you also pay VAT on all silver in the Republic of Ireland then (coins are not exempt, like they are over here)?

And now that's what bugs me. Even a small order with the European Mint comes with fairly hefty shipping costs again, so you'll better make it a bigger order to make the shipping costs worth while. 
So for now, I'll just order some coin capsules somewhere else, hopefully I'll be invited to drop a review somewhere to give a piece of my mind, and I'll leave it at that. And I'll surely request to send my potential next order out with good coin capsules. 
Imagine you've ordered a smartphone somewhere, and it arrives with scratches on the back, and a star on the screen. And when you contact the seller about it, they say they do that more often, but they'll send you a screen protector with your next order to them as they want to keep their customers satisfied. Would be unacceptable, wouldn't it? 
But okay, suppose that's the risk of ordering something from somewhere abroad. Lesson learned...

Emailed the European Mint last Saturday, as that was the earliest possible time for me to make some photos of the coin capsules while being at home in the daylight (going to work when it's dark, and it's dark again when I get home again).
They responded earlier this morning (respect for their quick reply), that it is normal to have some scratches on the capsules, but as they want their customers to be satisfied, they will pop some replacement capsules in with my next order with them.
Although it is a nice offer, it is one that's not overly helpful for me now. And I actually think it's bad enough as it is that they send coin capsules out that are in such poor condition, as it's nothing a bit of quality control couldn't have prevented.
Then again, rather the capsules than the coins to have something to complain about. But still, what guarantee is out there that all of the coin capsules in my potential next order with them will be in good condition? Definitely something I will keep in consideration if I'm ordering with them again.

Order from The Silver Mountain arrived. Six 1oz 2019 coins in the Golden Ring version (Britannia, Philharmoniker, American Eagle, Maple Leaf, Wiener Neustadt, and the Kangaroo), one 10oz Magnificent Maple Leaf 2019, two 1oz Australian Wedge-tailed Eagles 2019, and five 1oz Kookaburras 2020. Both the coins and the capsules in perfect condition. 
 

Ah right, thanks for your explanation.
With the VAT on all silver in the UK (luckily at least silver coins are VAT free here in the Netherlands), it definitely makes sense to be a premium member here if a few quid a month potentially saves you tens or maybe hundreds of pounds on your purchases.
And good point on people wanting to sell at a competitive rate, especially on a place like over here with all the know how. Good to keep in mind.

Won't you be more or less paying for those premiums via this place as well, but then to private people rather than to companies? I take it people over here would like to sell their stuff at a nice profit as well rather than against spot price.

@Jamesd Nice collection there! I really should look into those deals here on the forum too, although I suppose you'll have to become a silver/gold/platinum member to see the better deals?