2024 Britannia 1oz. Coin. Will the milk spots continue?

[SilverMike1127]

My absolute favorite coin to stack is the Britannia. US Mint doesn't do it for me.. Personally the milk spots don't entirely kill the love for them, BUT, if only they could change a couple of things to mitigate it, they couldn't make enough for demand. I know, I know, silver is silver, stack for the weight, but "they so pretty" lol. What do you guys think, 2024 will be different, or more of the same?

[stefffana]

Hi and welcome on forum!🤗

I think the milky drama will never stop.

[HonestMoneyGoldSilver]

The Royal Mint don't consider it a big enough problem and they won't fix it until we stop buying their milky silver. There are several American YouTubers who have stated they will stop buying Britannias due to the quality control issues

The Mint knows why these problems arise they're just too cheap to pay for MintShield tech like the Royal Canadian Mint and too incompetent to implement a professional production process like the Perth Mint or Royal Australian Mint

I watched this the other day and thought it was interesting - the guy cleans the Britannia with some sort of polish and the dirt that comes off it is embarrassing:

 

[Sovhead]

1 hour ago, SilverMike1127 said:

My absolute favorite coin to stack is the Britannia. US Mint doesn't do it for me.. Personally the milk spots don't entirely kill the love for them, BUT, if only they could change a couple of things to mitigate it, they couldn't make enough for demand. I know, I know, silver is silver, stack for the weight, but "they so pretty" lol. What do you guys think, 2024 will be different, or more of the same?

Silica gel is your friend.

[Petra]

Touch wood I don’t have any Britannias with milk spots. The Royal Mint is by far not the only mint that has silver coins suffering from milk spots, just that no one seems to advertise it!

[Sovhead]

4 minutes ago, Petra said:

Touch wood I don’t have any Britannias with milk spots. The Royal Mint is by far not the only mint that has silver coins suffering from milk spots, just that no one seems to advertise it!

A friend of mine has a full tube of the Royal Philharmonic 1oz coins and he’s stored them carefully and they’re an absolute mess.

[SilverMike1127]

11 minutes ago, Petra said:

Touch wood I don’t have any Britannias with milk spots. The Royal Mint is by far not the only mint that has silver coins suffering from milk spots, just that no one seems to advertise it!

Agreed! 

[Petra]

Been mentioned many times, storage methods are irrelevant, the damage is done during the manufacturing processes. They’re either going to eventually go milky or not🤔😮

[AaaGee]

Got 90ish oz of silver. Got 2 that are ropey. Both Tudor Beasts 2022 Lion Of England (bullion). Not happy!

Got a bit of toning on a few brits but not worried about that.

 

[Smiler999]

Beautiful coins but the quality is absolute garbage and won't change until people stop buying and tolerating this 🤷

[Minted]

I've got a milky KC3 cypher - must have happened within just days/weeks of minting!  And a Philharmonic that went milky in storage.

I am a bit of a perfectionist and don't like milk spots or toning, so have shifted more towards gold now.  (Just waiting until I end up with a copper spot on one of those lol...)

[ChrisSilver]

Hello and welcome to The Silver Forum  

[HonestMoneyGoldSilver]

Another interesting take on milk spotting by an Austrian chemist. The main theory is milk spotting is caused by release agents, I guess the Royal Mint shouldn't have bought @HerefordBullyun's curtains!

https://youtu.be/WXilefCMpG0?si=5_b-jNybfXlZoqOU

[marshbag]

Hello and welcome!

[Petra]

Royal Mint are not the only coins that are going milky. Obviously a recent issue at the mint as it appears lots of newish coins being effected 🤔😮