Latest Perth Privy - alternate Kook design!

[swAgger]

I have never been a fan of privy issues. Apart from the general dislike toward them as a back door to extending mintages, sometimes they can be just ridiculously chosen and quite often badly positioned and intrusive on the design field. That's not to say i haven't liked some. There were the Koala chinese privy, and the RM ones with the lunar animals circling the rim.

But i am again finding myself drawn toward the latest privy from Perth. It's definitely caught my eye because it isn't like a regular privy.

For the new kookaburra, instead of placing the usual lunar privy on the best available small vacant space on the design field, as always happens, they have completely removed part of the key design! Taking out the moon in the background as the location for the privy. Now, i am not aware of when a privy mark has taken the place of a big part of the coin design itself. Privy marks are usually an addition, into any old available space, onto the regular issued coin design. So this is why it's got my attention. It does mean this is not just an extension of the regular kook, but in fact an alternative design altogether, which for a change the privy happens to create an intelligently balanced design field. Thoughts?

 

 

[FlorinCollector]

First i've seen it. I like it tho I've never bought a privy mark coin before...

[sovereignsteve]

agreed, better than the usual privy, but that's not saying much

[HawkHybrid]

anyone else notice that the strike on a perth mint privy

coin is lightly different to that of the original?

 

HH

[swAgger]

33 minutes ago, sovereignsteve said:

agreed, better than the usual privy, but that's not saying much

I hear you....

For me, it's the size the moon should have been on the regular issue. Now, squinting, i can pretend it is So the dog-in-the-moon instead of the man-in-the-moon?

[swAgger]

3 minutes ago, HawkHybrid said:

anyone else notice that the strike on a perth mint privy

coin is lightly different to that of the original?

 

HH

sorry, can't say i have, haven't had many to make comparisons. In what way do you mean?

[HawkHybrid]

the queens hair seems to be better defined but maybe

flatter. a bit like when you do the high contrast effect

on pictures.

 

HH

[swAgger]

ok, i must remember to check that out when i get my new MoonDogs

[999magnum]

Man I love it. The place for the privy is absolutely crazy good. 

[muenzdachs]

Kookaburra privy Panda was issued for Beijing Coin Show - mintage is just 8.000

 

 

[Oystonousted]

@swAgger Yes I reckon this could do alright. Normal privy coins do nothing for me and I feel they are just milking it for all their worth. 

This is the first time like you say the design has been changed to accommodate the privy mark ( no bad thing in this coin)

Probably get a few. And you?

[swAgger]

@Oystonout Yes, same here, will pick up a few out of interest. The price is about the same as the regular kook, too (helps make it an easier decision)

[kimchi]

As a Kook fan I think it's an absolute winner for the reasons already given, it'll be very interesting to see these in hand next to the original!

@muenzdachs that's quite an interesting one, much more of an incongruous design imo but it has a great mintage. Wouldn't mind one of those actually.

I too usually don't bother with privys but I've filled my boots on these, I like them

[Thelonerangershorse]

Will there be a 10oz version?

[swAgger]

1 hour ago, kimchi said:

I too usually don't bother with privys but I've filled my boots on these, I like them

Ankle or knee-high?

 

@Thelonerangershorse not of the privy. shhh let's not give them ideas

[kimchi]

28 minutes ago, swAgger said:

Ankle or knee-high?

 

@Thelonerangershorse not of the privy. shhh let's not give them ideas

Luckily today was not a cross-dressing day, so only Doc Martin stylee (steel toe-caps mind!)

Have there been 10oz Kook privys before? Anyone know who commissioned these ones?

[swAgger]

44 minutes ago, kimchi said:

Luckily today was not a cross-dressing day, so only Doc Martin stylee (steel toe-caps mind!)

Have there been 10oz Kook privys before? Anyone know who commissioned these ones?

well...er....ahem, i meant more along the line of wellington boots....   heheh

No privy's on 10oz before, just the 1oz.

[kimchi]

30 minutes ago, swAgger said:

well...er....ahem, i meant more along the line of wellington boots....   heheh

No privy's on 10oz before, just the 1oz.

The Duke of Wellington, who 'had' ten thousand men? What on earth are you implying swAgger? On second thoughts please don't answer that!

Happy to be corrected, but I thought these privys were exclusively commissioned by specific dealers. I got mine from EMK (I couldn't find them elsewhere) so I presumed it was them, but if no-one knows I'll ask them.

[Roy]

Wasn't it the Grand old Duke of York who had 10,000 men?

Or Catherine the Great.... Sorry, I digress

[kimchi]

28 minutes ago, Roy said:

Wasn't it the Grand old Duke of York who had 10,000 men?

Or Catherine the Great.... Sorry, I digress

You are correct @Roy, thank heavens for the rescue!

I think best not hint at what the present Duke of York may or may not allegedly be into...

Ah but good old Cathy is long gone and so fair game, wasn't it supposedly horses on her particular plate (or vice versa!)?

If so shouldn't we hope for a 'Strike on the Day' commemorative?

/grabs coat and runs for cover

[Roy]

Yes, she was a horse lover 

[kimchi]

2 hours ago, Roy said:

Yes, she was a horse lover 

Is there a Catherine the Great privy in the horse world I wonder?

[999magnum]

How's the pricing for something like this? Is $44 out the door to be expected?

[Oystonousted]

Don't know if expected but it's pretty dear for a 1oz bullion coin albeit 8000 mintage

.......then again the BU silver krugerrand was/is about the same price and came with a £1M mintage!

Dont mention the SilverKruger, don't mention the SilverKruger, damn @kimchi

[swAgger]

1 hour ago, 999magnum said:

How's the pricing for something like this? Is $44 out the door to be expected?

 

This one does nothing for me but then again privy's don't, generally. Current asking prices for this in the States and elsewhere are getting.... yeah, high. Certainly the States. It might have something to do with Apmex having "sold out" already and much being made of that. That - and a deal being made about "only 8,000" minted, lowest privy mintage for a kook so far etc..... etc.

Yes, Apmex have sold out whatever number they acquired but it is not at all sold out globally. One large dealer who ship from Hong Kong for instance still has almost 2,000 in stock, themselves. I don't think i should link but here is the key part of their screenshot. Still a reasonable cost from them, and IF i was interested in the panda privy i would feel fine buying a bunch at THAT price (just a couple of dollars over the regular). It does make me wonder - considering these were privies done to mark the Beijing coin expo, they don't seem to have caught the imagination over there. If they had, western dealers wouldn't have been offered a sniff of these, that's for sure. And enough seem to have them. Anyway, i'm getting off point - Is it to be expected? I think there are always enough people out there who will buy into it and view it as something special.