Discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb - new royal mint release 9am

[BullionBuyerUK]

Just visited the royal mint site to check on some orders and discovered this! 😮

Who knew about this? I quite like it! Christmas presents are cancelled in my household now!

Edited October 23, 2022 by BullionBuyerUK

[dikefalos]

This one looks good🤩, that's my wife's Christmas gift. If she don't like it, I'll take care of it. 

What's announced for Tuesday's queue?

[dikefalos]

Oooh, this one looks really good🤩 

Won't sleep now, must be the first in the queue

 

🤣😅🤣

[Solachesis]

Aw man, didn't know about this, would have been more conservative with my spending, too poor right now! 

[dikefalos]

RM just went offline. Hopefully they launch only the Tutankhamun coin. Wifey looks mad this morning😅

[Solachesis]

Website back online for me, but the coin isn't there lol what, can't find it 

Edit: ok now it is 

Edited October 24, 2022 by Solachesis
Lol

[Zhorro]

Not much of a queue - I was in at 9.01am.

 

[Zhorro]

Just now, Solachesis said:

Website back online for me, but the coin isn't there lol what, can't find it 

Type in "Tutankhamen" in search box!

[ak74]

5 silver pounds mintage is just 2682...

[Zhorro]

3 minutes ago, ak74 said:

5 silver pounds mintage is just 2682...

This is a bit naughty by the Royal Mint as the headline mintage figure is 1922 !

[Solachesis]

Would have liked to have seen a 1oz .999 version tbh

[DeepSpace]

2 hours ago, Zhorro said:

This is a bit naughty by the Royal Mint as the headline mintage figure is 1922 !

So do you think these will be a part of another set going forward? What's the deal with the other 760 coins?

[Zhorro]

5 minutes ago, DeepSpace said:

So do you think these will be a part of another set going forward? What's the deal with the other 760 coins?

It is difficult to know why there is such a large disparity in numbers. The RM might have sent some off for grading?  Or it might be a "Strike Your Own" at the Royal Mint Experience in Wales?

[Paul]

i quite like the £5 gold to be fair 

Not going to buy today but if i can get a graded70 in the next year, at less than RRP i will happily add it to the stack 

[Rains]

5 hours ago, Solachesis said:

Would have liked to have seen a 1oz .999 version tbh

This would rather have the pure on a side note are the chances of 925 milking less

[paulmerton]

5 hours ago, Zhorro said:

It is difficult to know why there is such a large disparity in numbers. The RM might have sent some off for grading?  Or it might be a "Strike Your Own" at the Royal Mint Experience in Wales?

That's not such a ridiculous suggestion with those numbers!

[LawrenceChard]

6 hours ago, Zhorro said:

It is difficult to know why there is such a large disparity in numbers. The RM might have sent some off for grading?  Or it might be a "Strike Your Own" at the Royal Mint Experience in Wales?

Perhaps they are starting a "pyramid" marketing scheme!

😎

[SilverPlatinum]

In my opinion it's an ugly coin (and expensive).........

[timsk]

15 hours ago, SilverPlatinum said:

In my opinion it's an ugly coin (and expensive).........

Interesting!

I take the polar opposite view - I think it's great. Here's why . . .

It's highly stylised, obviously, which is in stark contrast to most RM offerings. The thick lateral lines of the pharaoh's headdress give a real sense of depth and scale, further helped by the way they break out of the circular dot and arrowhead detailing around the coin's edge. The viewing angle is slightly upwards, indicating the pharaoh is positioned above us - as befits a king. His androgynous characteristics are very evident: perhaps weighted slightly too far towards female? - but I guess that's a sign of the times! The fine radius lines in the background are an old trick, but used very effectively here to frame the head and thrust it forward. They also provide a lovely textural contrast to the 'skin' of the face. The only areas where I think the artist could, possibly, have done better is to define the features of the right hand serpent a little better and, for my liking, the two parallel(ish) lines on the pharaoh's neck look a tad out of place. I'm not sure what they're supposed to be: some evidence of jewellery perhaps - but surely they're not meant to wrinkle lines? These minor criticisms aside, I think the design is simple, bold and very striking and I'm surprised the coins haven't sold like hot cakes. Needless to say, I've bought one! I give the design 7/10! 

Edited October 25, 2022 by timsk

[ak74]

19 minutes ago, timsk said:

the two parallel(ish) lines on the pharaoh's neck look a tad out of place. I'm not sure what they're supposed to be: some evidence of jewellery perhaps - but surely they're not meant to wrinkle lines?

That would be great to ask ancient Egyptians, what they meant by adding these neck lines to the Tutankhamun’s gold mask