New Series - Celestial Animals Niue

[muenzdachs]

New Series in Silver and Gold - Celestial Animals Niue

First coin is GREEN Dragon

mintage: 10.000 silver BU and 100 for the gold version

 

 

  

[JackKlugman]

It's a nice design but getting fatigue from all these new coin series that are continually brought out 

[Branman1986]

The design to me is only okay, kinda cool, but a little plain maybe?  I may pick up a few on my next Apmex order.  I don't think there will be any rush to get these though.

[Draconicus]

A little too simple the design... Not so appellative for me!

[999magnum]

It looks to be a small variation of the lunar animals. Dragon, phoenix, tiger, etc. This boat has already sailed imho. I'd rather buy an ASE instead.

[muenzdachs]

We will see as it will be a series with the 5 Celestial Animals (Feng Shui).

So the other 4 coins will be different from a Dragon for sure (White Tiger, Red Phoenix, Yellow Snake and Black Turtle)

[LiquidMetalsUK]

Quite a nice coin but very similar to the Chinese dollar restrikes imo

[happy2gether]

For me also not an appealing design. So many better looking dragons and mythical creatures available. Mintage is not a guarantee for good demand, e.g. St. Helena Restrikes of Trade Dollars with 10,000 or 5,000 mintage. No demand.

[dom555]

I like dragon coins but this is a poor design compared to all the other great dragons out there. I think I will give it a miss.

[StevenDS]

17 hours ago, muenzdachs said:

We will see as it will be a series with the 5 Celestial Animals (Feng Shui).

So the other 4 coins will be different from a Dragon for sure (White Tiger, Red Phoenix, Yellow Snake and Black Turtle)

Any news on frequency of release? One per year running over the next five years? Or maybe one1 in 2019 and afterwards two per year?

Reminds me of Perth Mint series Dragon & ... (Phoenix, Tiger, Dragon, ...), but with lower mintage (Perth Mint series is 50K/coin).

[muenzdachs]

I have heard two coins a year, but very unlikely they are coming with second this year

[NorthEast]

meh, another series... Too many series and I am getting tired of them coming out every month... These mints need to slow down. Too much of a good thing becomes boring... 

[StevenDS]

I agree the design of the green dragon isn't making me very enthusiastic. However an amazing design of the others eg White Tiger, Red Phoenix and Yellow Snake could trigger big interest in the first coin of the series. I'll be getting a few just in case. Will be nice to compare them to the Perth mint series.

[KevinG]

I might pick one up not sure yet though.

[StevenDS]

These appear to be doing not that bad. Only just arrived on November 4th. Only goldsilver.be seems to have plenty left.

LPM - sold out

European Mint - sold out

Apmex - only has 19 left of the MS69 graded coins.

Munzdachs - 46 left (and 14 in Apmex slab)

Aurinum - 56 left

Metal Market Europe - 90 left

Goldsilver.be - 235 left

 

A nice design of the second coin (Phoenix, Dragon or Turtle) might just create a nice premium increase on this coin.

[Branman1986]

Am I losing my mind or is there not a single one on eBay?

[JonCL]

24 minutes ago, Branman1986 said:

Am I losing my mind or is there not a single one on eBay?

Not sure I’m allowed to post a link but if you search “Celestial animals coin” you should get a German seller flogging them for £24.94 + £7.75 p&p.

[west6]

I ordered the coin at LPM and received an email today informing me the product has a defect and they cannot obtain replacement from the Mint!  So I will only have to accept the crediting of my account.  

How many did I order?  ONE, a single ONE coin and no replacement can be obtained.🙄

I'm wondering what's going on...

[StevenDS]

3 minutes ago, west6 said:

I ordered the coin at LPM and received an email today informing me the product has a defect and they cannot obtain replacement from the Mint!  So I will only have to accept the crediting of my account.  

How many did I order?  ONE, a single ONE coin and no replacement can be obtained.🙄

I'm wondering what's going on...

I have a good idea. Just received mine. I ordered 5. The queen's face is severely damaged on every coin, but not in the same place though.

Goldsilver.be made no comment about a defect.

[StevenDS]

They have now become unavailable on goldsilver.be. Strange, because they had 235 coins left on Friday. Either they sold out or the quality issue was recognized.

Don't know what to do now with my 5 coins. Hold them with the marks of the Queen on her face or send them back. Depending what's going on, they might become more valuable.

Can a mint recall and remint? Only remint the amount they recalled?

[StevenDS]

@muenzdachs, you are still selling them. Any word from the mint about what is going on with this coin?

[muenzdachs]

These is what some coins look like

Mint would say - Bullion quality - coming loose in a tube

But not all coins are looking like the pics above

[StevenDS]

2 minutes ago, muenzdachs said:

These is what some coins look like

Mint would say - Bullion quality - coming loose in a tube

But not all coins are looking like the pics above

But have you heard anything about a 'defect' as per above message from @west6 who received that reply from LPM?

[muenzdachs]

No, haven't heard about that

[JackKlugman]

16 minutes ago, muenzdachs said:

These is what some coins look like

Mint would say - Bullion quality - coming loose in a tube

But not all coins are looking like the pics above

The Royal Mint (unfortunately) ships all the Queen's Beast bullion in in tubes so while it's common for them to have light edge scuffs, they don't look like the queen has been washing her face in sandpaper. 

This damage is almost certainly a production defect - note there is no defects on the rear of the coins......