Heroes of Silver: Britannia

[AgAuNEWS]

Thanks mate. It's one of the old bullion guides and hasn't yet been revisited like the Maple, Noahs Ark or Canadian Wildlife guides. The mintage graph was a failed experiment in using Ninja Charts, a singularly useless bit of software. That gives me an excuse to get it updated.

[Danny-boy]

Thanks mate. It's one of the old bullion guides and hasn't yet been revisited like the Maple, Noahs Ark or Canadian Wildlife guides. The mintage graph was a failed experiment in using Ninja Charts, a singularly useless bit of software. That gives me an excuse to get it updated.

No worries. Even Wikipedia has it wrong too, as have most other bullion sites.

The RM are pretty crap at posting mintages.

[silversword]

You know you could make a correction on Wikipedia; that's the whole point of it.

[Danny-boy]

You know you could make a correction on Wikipedia; that's the whole point of it.

Yep, but you have to register and stuff.

If anybody here fancies doing it, crack on.

[silversword]

So, inspired by several comments in this thread, my date run of Britannias is slowly but surely being put together. Found an almost flawless 2013 which means 2008-2014 is now complete, plus 1999. Still need a '98, then 2000-2007. 8 down, 9 to go.

[DrDime]

Ss I have a couple of spare 1998s - got anything to swap?

[Pete]

I collected the full run and was one of the first people to receive the awful initial run of .999 2013 coins all badly scuffed and with dents and reeded indentations. I photographed them and argued with the Mint directly but their lips were sealed. They even denied quality problems.

All coins went back and after they sorted their quality issues I got replacements.

Sadly there are lots of crap coins out there.

Some eBay coin sellers were adding disclaimers so as to warn buyers of the poor quality.

Thankfully the Mint sorted out its problems but pure silver is softer than the .958 alloy so needs more care in handling / storage as brilliant finishes are prone to easy marking and scuffing unlike the matt finish on Eagles and Libertads. At least most of the Perth Mint coins and Chinese Pandas are shipped in protective capsules unlike the Brits.

[Ares]

It's on my to-do list too, along with a bunch of others!

[StackemHigh]

I'm going for the full date run. Got 2008-2014 so far.

[silversword]

Ss I have a couple of spare 1998s - got anything to swap?

Plenty of things, what are you interested in?

[DrDime]

@ss I'll PM you.

[daniel.yrh]

yippie finally some love for Britannias! In Singapore there are not many Britannia collectors (most stackers go for Perth Mint stuff).

 

I started stacking silver back in April 2013, and very quickly my interest switched from stacking bullion silver to collectibles (was driven by the bearish trend of silver spot). Britannias were the first series I dip my toes into, and eventually I manage to source and complete the whole series... paid quite handsome premiums for these.

 

Not sure what is the collectors demand for these proof Britannias in UK, but in Singapore local collectors do not bother collecting coins from Singapore Mint but local collectors are keen to collect numismatics from other countries. You may not fancy your Britannias but as a foreigner I do! 

 

I just received my 2014 proof Britannia few days back, and the 2014 now becomes my favorite Britannia design (especially the high relief 5oz version). 

 

1997 Proof Britannia

 

1998 Proof Britannia in coin set (for unknown reason people seem to bid high on singles but coin sets are cheap! Cannot do much about the toning though)

 

2001 Proof Britannia

 

2003 Proof Britannia 

 

2004 Proof Britannia

 

2005 Proof Britannia

 

2006 Proof Britannia

 

2007 Proof Britannia

 

2008 Proof Britannia

 

2009 Proof Britannia

 

2010 Proof Britannia

 

2011 Proof Britannia

 

2012 Proof Britannia

 

2013 Proof Britannia

 

One big family of Lady Britannias... the 2013 looks out of place

[Luker2]

Beauties1 I ordered my first Britannia (the 2014 5 oz silver proof) ~ 1 week ago via the British Royal Mint  and excited to receive her. There is another Thread on this forum relating to that new coin. ...and here is a link to 5 (FIVE)- coin silver proof  2014 sets  that are being sold through a US dealer (I have never dealt with, and have no affiliation with whatsoever) :

 

https://www.govmint.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=britannia

 

Cheers,

Luker

[daniel.yrh]

Personally I like the 1oz proof Britannia singles, they are consistent with the rest of my Britannia proof collection in terms of presentation and size. 

 

The coin sets used to be 4-coins set in the earlier years... then somehow it turns to 5-coin set last year and then this year Royal Mint introduced a microscopic coin... 1/40oz!   

[StackemHigh]

Going for a date run on the BU version myself. I looked at the 5oz proof but the cost! just too expensive for 5oz.

[daniel.yrh]

Well when I gain interest in Britannias it was made known to me that the bullion version will have the same standing Britannia design since 2013. That killed my interest in getting the bullion silver version as I prefer continuity of an ongoing series. That's just me

[silversword]

Lets see what happens with the designs - the Royal Mint might change their minds again in future.

[Danny-boy]

Lets see what happens with the designs - the Royal Mint might change their minds again in future.

I think this will happen in the next couple of years too.

[HawkHybrid]

come on chariot britannia bullion, 1999, 2009, lets hope there's

a pattern emerging

 

HH

[Danny-boy]

Does anybody know which year britannias came on the open face card in the plastic bag?

Thanks