Royal Mint Star Wars Medals

[Kman]

https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/ranges/medals/sw17rspm/

https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/ranges/medals/sw17bspm/

£99 

Also doing non precious metals

https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/ranges/stamp-and-coin-series/

Why didn't they do the GoT medals round  so annoying

 

[mr-dead]

have these just been released, surprised they haven't sold out with a mintage of 750

[Kman]

7 minutes ago, mr-dead said:

have these just been released, surprised they haven't sold out with a mintage of 750

I think so, they weren't on the shop when I looked at the Game of Thrones medals couple weeks ago, they tend to put new stuff up on Mondays so Id guess this Monday or maybe last 

Looking at a cached page on google id guess last Monday

They don't seem to be publicly announcing these medals or marketing them much at all 

[mr-dead]

Took a flip punt on them with a mintage of only 750.

Just grabbed 1 of each silver version (R2D2, BB8 & C3PO)

An expensive 28.28g of sterling silver though lol.

 

[Kman]

Its weird because googling "Star Wars Royal Mint" and looking at the news tab, no mention at all.. doesn't seem like they have announced them to anyone?

No marketing at all.. just put them on the site and hope people find them, bizarre 

Did a search on youtube, the cupro nickel versions were sold by Royal Mail in December but no proofs until now I don't think

All very odd

[mr-dead]

Looking at the cached pages in google they were up on the 23rd Jan so probably added last Monday.

like you said no search hits on the release though, all very low key.

[PansPurse]

Is this how things become a hit, low montage, low publicity, sell out on the quiet?

[mr-dead]

Low mintage, huge film fan base.  Silver proof coin + stamp sets appeal to two sets of collectors.

Got to be a fairly safe bet I would think.

[metallica73]

Weirdly though according to ebay completed listings you could have picked these up for £80 delivered a week ago? But no bids?

From completed sales I can see a couple have sold for £125

[kimchi]

52 minutes ago, mr-dead said:

Took a flip punt on them with a mintage of only 750.

Just grabbed 1 of each silver version (R2D2, BB8 & C3PO)

An expensive 28.28g of sterling silver though lol.

 

At least being sterling they shouldn't spot.

What a weird issue though!

[fehk2001]

1 hour ago, kimchi said:

At least being sterling they shouldn't spot.

What a weird issue though!

They would spot but a lot less likely 

[PansPurse]

Interesting, but yeah, I don't have the £100 to £300 to get these on a punt 

[kimchi]

7 minutes ago, fehk2001 said:

They would spot but a lot less likely 

I've never seen or heard of a sterling silver spotting, is there an example?

[fehk2001]

10 minutes ago, kimchi said:

I've never seen or heard of a sterling silver spotting, is there an example?

For example if u look into 1977 jubilee , there are plenty of spots coin , won’t be as bad as e.g Britannia but they do spot 

[kimchi]

6 minutes ago, fehk2001 said:

For example if u look into 1977 jubilee , there are plenty of spots coin , won’t be as bad as e.g Britannia but they do spot 

Surprised to hear that but thanks!

77 was long time ago though...have any more recent streling silver coins spotted does anyone know?

[JunkBond]

14 minutes ago, kimchi said:

77 was long time ago

Seems like only yesterday!

[PansPurse]

Just now, JunkBond said:

Seems like only yesterday!

I feel old now

[augur]

32 minutes ago, kimchi said:

have any more recent streling silver coins spotted does anyone know?

Some 2016 Peter Rabbit proofs, I believe 

[kimchi]

5 minutes ago, augur said:

Some 2016 Peter Rabbit proofs, I believe 

Many thanks for the info - ouch.

[fehk2001]

4 minutes ago, kimchi said:

Many thanks for the info - ouch.

Milk for royal babies 

[Lr103]

3 hours ago, Kman said:

Its weird because googling "Star Wars Royal Mint" and looking at the news tab, no mention at all.. doesn't seem like they have announced them to anyone?

No marketing at all.. just put them on the site and hope people find them, bizarre 

Did a search on youtube, the cupro nickel versions were sold by Royal Mail in December but no proofs until now I don't think

All very odd

To add to how little they are doing to market them, as far as I can tell they only show one side.  The description mentions a different design on the other side, but there is no image.