closed Wanted queens beasts proof gold or silver

[Skelator88]

Hello,

First post here 

im wanting to acquire the following 

 

1/4 gold proof lion and unicorn and close to retail prices if possible, I can aim higher price with a trade.

 

im also after 5oz and 10oz silver proof versions 

 

im also after the graded PF70 versions 

 

I recently bought the below and would like it's bigger and smaller brothers

 

thanks

[Lr103]

I don't have any for sale, but some of the purple label PF70 beasts you are after are still for sale at retail prices from Modern Coin Mart (MCM).  They still have the PF70 5 oz Unicorn, and the PF70 10 oz Lion.  I don't believe they've sold the 10 oz Unicorn yet, as there were delays from the mint....I ordered one from the Royal Mint in June, and finally got it in late September.  

https://www.moderncoinmart.com/2017-great-britain-5-oz-silver-queens-beasts-unicorn-of-scotland-proof-10-coin-ngc-pf70-uc-early-releases-exclusive-queens-beasts-label.html

[Skelator88]

hey thanks for the heads up, I paid £365 for the lion so paying £570 for the unicorn is a bit outside my bracket. I paid under retail hopefully I get lucky again

[Lr103]

You're welcome, and I agree with your strategy. I'm guessing if you watch listings patiently you'll be able to pick them up for less, or maybe someone on the forum has some to sell. However keep in mind that the unicorn has in some cases much lower mintages than the lion. For example, the 5 oz lion proof was a max mintage of 2,500 (with an NGC PF70 population of 445) and the 5 oz unicorn was 750 (NGC PF70 population of 240).  

 

[Skelator88]

8 hours ago, Lr103 said:

You're welcome, and I agree with your strategy. I'm guessing if you watch listings patiently you'll be able to pick them up for less, or maybe someone on the forum has some to sell. However keep in mind that the unicorn has in some cases much lower mintages than the lion. For example, the 5 oz lion proof was a max mintage of 2,500 (with an NGC PF70 population of 445) and the 5 oz unicorn was 750 (NGC PF70 population of 240).  

 

Thank you for pointing out that information on specifics quantities I wasn't aware of that. Is there a link to this information ? I'm a big collector of silver proof 50ps so to venture into the unknown is quite exciting!!

[Lr103]

You're welcome!  The Royal Mint website has the mintages, but they are nicely summarized on the pages below. The NGC populations for the silver 5 and 10 oz is the third link, but you might need to register....you can view the populations with the free memebership level.

http://agaunews.com/queens-beasts-lion-coins-now-in-proof-finish/

http://agaunews.com/queens-beasts-proof-unicorn-of-scotland-launches/

https://www.ngccoin.com/census/world/great-britain-decimal-1968-to-date/sc-350/s10pnd/

 

 

[Clens92]

I'm actually about to send a 1/4oz Gold Lion for conservation and subsequent grading with NGC - some eejit has stored it poorly and it's got a couple of marks on it.

I'll be selling it when it comes back, if you havent found one by then.

[Skelator88]

All sorted now thanks