The Tudor Dragon Cometh in Bullion

[James32]

Just now, apachebleu said:

That's not it surely? 

It's a turtle with a dragons head 😆 

[SiCole]

1 minute ago, apachebleu said:

That's not it surely? 

Good job you like it Quirky!!

Caitlyn and the lion now looks a masterpiece  

 

[apachebleu]

1 minute ago, SiCole said:

Good job you like it Quirky!!

Caitlyn and the lion now looks a masterpiece  

 

 She's Stunning and brave

[SiCole]

1 minute ago, apachebleu said:

 She's Stunning and brave

Strong and independent

[apachebleu]

4 minutes ago, James32 said:

It's a turtle with a dragons head 😆 

 I know it's going to have that weird squatting body like ratboy from the viz but I'm not having that head. The head shouldn't be trying to look like a fierce dragon, look at the statue, its a party dragon

 

1 minute ago, SiCole said:

Strong and independent

 She's all 5 spice girls in one body

[apachebleu]

 Still, I suppose they are doing us a service reminding us all why we love the queens beasts so much.

 

 It's fine, I'm still going to buy it, I'm enjoying collecting a set, keeps me buying bullion regularly and topping up the stack and it's more interesting than a brittania.

 

[9x883]

8 minutes ago, apachebleu said:

 I know it's going to have that weird squatting body like ratboy

Yep

[westminstrel]

Oh my gosh how could an artist designing coins for the ROYAL MINT absolutely ruin a Dragon?

For that matter, how could any artist ruin a Dragon?! 

And how on earth did it get approved?

This looks like 90s Cartoon Network (I loved that, but it should be a different series if at all, not the Tudor Beasts).

I’m invested in the 1oz silver reverse proof, so I’m going to slog along whether I like it or not. 😭

[Agaupl]

Tbh it’s exactly as I expected it to look. For better or worse the series is pretty uniformly stylised. 

[westminstrel]

37 minutes ago, Agaupl said:

Tbh it’s exactly as I expected it to look. For better or worse the series is pretty uniformly stylised. 

Uniformly comical, derpy, whacky… 😬

The Tudors were so regal and flamboyant, and this series had so much potential. Such a pity it became cartoonish and caricatured. 

[GoldDiggerDave]

Frustrating with the possibilities you can do with a dragon and this is what they finally agree on……

 

Gees even dragons can’t be fierce or scary or be alpha dragons anymore…….we can’t have toxic dragon-inity in the workplace 

[GoldDiggerDave]

 

[AaaGee]

As fugly as it is im collecting the 1oz silver proofs in this series?

Any idea when its being released?

Can only see the 2 coin set on the RM site.

[cjbcomm]

4 minutes ago, AaaGee said:

As fugly as it is im collecting the 1oz silver proofs in this series?

Any idea when its being released?

Can only see the 2 coin set on the RM site.

It's on the site now.... might grab a 2 Oz bullion version if ever released but not tempted by the proofs....

[AaaGee]

6 minutes ago, cjbcomm said:

It's on the site now.... might grab a 2 Oz bullion version if ever released but not tempted by the proofs....

Ah, found it.

Cheers 👍 

[SovereignBull]

Can anyone see how many have been sold?

[apachebleu]

1 hour ago, westminstrel said:

Uniformly comical, derpy, whacky… 😬

The Tudors were so regal and flamboyant, and this series had so much potential. Such a pity it became cartoonish and caricatured. 

 I'd say the dragon is the worst in the series because I think they tried to make it fierce and that doesn't work within the confines of the design. To me it should have been goofy and weird/fun.

 I think with the decision to basically have the same body on every beast they made a real mistake and left very little room for a designer to do much (though they could still have done better)

 Still, I'm committed to the gold bullion and reverse proofs.

[apachebleu]

 I do see that once again there's only 500 reverse proof sets hust like the yale.

 Surely it's not normal that every release seems to have a different mintage? They also properly messed up not having the subscription on these

[Mtaybar]

14 hours ago, James32 said:

LOL

And to think I actually got excited for this particular one! What a let down it turned out to be. 

[tpcob303]

Oh, I didn't know they were putting pokemon charizards on coins. 

Instead of buying this tudor pokemon you could just buy up the last few GE coins. 

[steve3jant]

A lot of negative views about this coin. Personally I like the simplicity of it. Many new releases appear too fussy (trying to be overly clever, in my opinion). I will continue to collect this series. I didn’t want them to be a rehash of the Queen’s Beasts. So it’s a thumbs up from me 😊

[OttoVonNortheim]

The design of the whole series is based on the original statues which are - well - just like what they are: end of medieval designs. So in my opinion they are more close to people who thought fantasy creatures like dragons real - unlike modern fancy representations aiming at modern audiences just beeing "cool" in our taste.

[Petra]

4 hours ago, apachebleu said:

 I do see that once again there's only 500 reverse proof sets hust like the yale.

 Surely it's not normal that every release seems to have a different mintage? They also properly messed up not having the subscription on these

🤔they have got subscription, from the very first one, mine just get sent out🤔

[Petra]

Well you’ll have to wait for the bullion version, although you get a bunc one. If not, all you people who don’t like it, don’t stress, no need to buy it🤔😮😁

[apachebleu]

8 minutes ago, Petra said:

🤔they have got subscription, from the very first one, mine just get sent out🤔

 Not for the reverse proof sets. The first one was actually a stand alone launch a good few weeks after all the other proofs

1 hour ago, steve3jant said:

A lot of negative views about this coin. Personally I like the simplicity of it. Many new releases appear too fussy (trying to be overly clever, in my opinion). I will continue to collect this series. I didn’t want them to be a rehash of the Queen’s Beasts. So it’s a thumbs up from me 😊

 If it looks better in hand or just grows on me I wouldn't be surprised