Today I Received.....

[Tn21]

Cheers at Andrewsl76

A piece by BYB, 

[matt1r]

[Guest]

Today this gorgeous coin arrived. It’s not one you see often as this design was only used for part of a year as it looked the same in size to the sixpence and when people gilded those they tried to pass them off as half sovereigns. I love the ornate shield designed by Merlen 

Looks proof like and of course will be graded by NGC

 

[richatthecroft]

Received this 1989 Bu 5 Pound Sovereign to join my 3 coin set to form a ‘poor man’s’ 4 coin 1989 set! 
I haven’t bought any Sovereigns for quite some time and re-aquatinting myself with 22 Carat Gold makes me wonder why I had  taken a break. 
I think grading these classic and special year design coins has its place- but these are staying in their presentation cases and going in that drawer in the dresser for safekeeping- you know the one, the one housing the best cutlery, the Irish Linen Napkins and the Elk Horn handled corkscrew. 

 

Edited May 23, 2020 by richatthecroft
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[Melon]

On 22/05/2020 at 00:49, Rugbyplayer said:

Those stamps made me chuckle! Love it 😆

[ADK1080]

On 20/05/2020 at 12:46, Zhorro said:

Ordered from the Royal Mint on Monday, dispatched yesterday, arrived today: a 2019 I (INDIA) sovereign.

I'm just looking at buying one. Are there any mintage figures? I can't seem to find much info on these. Nice coin 👍

[Zhorro]

1 hour ago, ADK1080 said:

I'm just looking at buying one. Are there any mintage figures? I can't seem to find much info on these. Nice coin 👍

I am not aware of the mintage figure for 2019.  The picture does not do it justice.

[ADK1080]

26 minutes ago, Zhorro said:

I am not aware of the mintage figure for 2019.  The picture does not do it justice.

No problem, great looking coin, enjoy, I'm just trying to decide if I'm getting one or not lol.

[AgD]

Keeping up with this series. The new 2020 nautical ounce Mayflower 

[LiquidMetalsUK]

Love it. Ordered mine yesterday 😁

[daca]

@AgD  Beautiful 👍 , great design

[adamthetaller]

Another bit of @BackyardBullion poured silver for the pile, loving those deep ripples.

[AgD]

1 hour ago, Jamesd said:

Love it. Ordered mine yesterday 😁

Another good design from the series 👍

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1 hour ago, daca said:

@AgD  Beautiful 👍 , great design

It is indeed and now only one of two series that I'm collecting 👍

[PapaLazarou]

To mark the 25th Anniversary of the first £1 coin, in 2008 the RM released a celebratory set of 14 gilded silver examples, each displaying one of the 14 prior designs. The mintage was 2,005  - just 67% of the stated edition limit of 3,000 sets.

I'm not a big fan of gilded coins, but these are certainly more attractive in hand than I had anticipated. They were, moreover, a necessary evil in my attempt to acquire the full set of 75 silver £1 designs ever minted. Just three now elude me.

I bought this yesterday from Terry at Dorset Coins, Outstanding service - the set arrived well within 24 hours of purchase for a net price of 20% below that at which the same set would have cost me at auction yesterday.

Edited May 25, 2020 by PapaLazarou

[OriginalS]

A nice bit of BYB silver courtesy of the other half for my birthday, love a bit of free silver I do 

[1817Karl]

12 hours ago, richatthecroft said:

Received this 1989 Bu 5 Pound Sovereign to join my 3 coin set to form a ‘poor man’s’ 4 coin 1989 set! 
I haven’t bought any Sovereigns for quite some time and re-aquatinting myself with 22 Carat Gold makes me wonder why I had  taken a break. 
I think grading these classic and special year design coins has its place- but these are staying in their presentation cases and going in that drawer in the dresser for safekeeping- you know the one, the one housing the best cutlery, the Irish Linen Napkins and the Elk Horn handled corkscrew. 

 

A nice little set, I'd like to have a look at the 5 BU someday, you don's see that many...

[Bullionaire]

Some of the coins I got via the group order. Many thanks @BackyardBullion. Wonderful service as usual. Like the new printed BYB boxes as well!

As featured in BYB's latest In Focus Friday episode... Funny story - I was sat watching the episode of IFF while my package was in covid quarantine for 24 hours (so I hadn't opened it yet). I was thinking: "What a jammy b*****d that got them kooks, wish I'd bought some". Completely oblivious that it was me... (I'd ordered in Feb and forgotten what I'd ordered). They look even better out of the caps

 

And the rest

Edited May 23, 2020 by Bullionaire

[Tn21]

Ah Ok so u was the lucky guy 👍

[Bullionaire]

28 minutes ago, Tn21 said:

Ah Ok so u was the lucky guy 👍

Just a bit. I'm pretty sure they're proofs as well. I looked at what the perth mint made in 2015 and they don't seem to have a high relief bullion coin. They have the 1oz silver declared mintages as 

- Bullion (not high relief): 500,000

- Proof high relief: 3320 (plus a couple of annual sets that would add another 1k on top of that)

The European mint are currently selling the bullion 2015 for about €13 more per coin than what I paid for these, so I don't know what they were thinking, but I ain't complaining

 

 

[BackyardBullion]

31 minutes ago, Bullionaire said:

Just a bit. I'm pretty sure they're proofs as well. I looked at what the perth mint made in 2015 and they don't seem to have a high relief bullion coin. They have the 1oz silver declared mintages as 

- Bullion (not high relief): 500,000

- Proof high relief: 3320 (plus a couple of annual sets that would add another 1k on top of that)

The European mint are currently selling the bullion 2015 for about €13 more per coin than what I paid for these, so I don't know what they were thinking, but I ain't complaining

 

 

Sometimes happy mistakes happen and I am so happy for you to have gotten them!

I was so confused when I was doing my count of items to make sure it all was delivered. They were the last things I had to verify and all that was remaining on my outstanding list was your two random year kooks. 

Jammy sod, they are so stunning! I would have loved to open the capsule to show their true glory but I thought they might be proofs and didn't want to mess them up!

[ChrisSilver]

43 minutes ago, Bullionaire said:

I'm pretty sure they're proofs as well

100% it is a proof. They are high relief coins, didn’t think EM stocked them as unable to find them on their website. They are worth roughly ~£45-60+ each currently, depending on the particular one and the country purchased in. 

[Bullionaire]

3 minutes ago, ChrisSilver said:

100% it is a proof. They are high relief coins, didn’t think EM stocked them as unable to find them on their website.

Well apparently they save them for people who just want any old kook and are willing to pay very little for them!

[GrahamDiamond]

[GrahamDiamond]

[Tattoedamat]

A rather nice double layer Queen's beast box landed on my doorstep this morning 🤫😀