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Ok gents, here it is, never took my normal OBV/REV pics as it's tooooooo dark, so a couple of microscoped ones for now. Opinions as usual are appreciated

An interview with the man himself http://blog.royalmint.com/behind-the-design-britannia-2017/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=brand%20email&utm_campaign=e1843

Is that the correct spelling as there's a D in EDWARD

The only way to deal with it (hopefully) without making a 2.2 billion bid, he's also not accepting questions on the item, wonder why not Clearly using his wording as the binding contract

I think the reason being is that having the same design can be off putting to people who buy the coin every year, would be really boring looking at the same design year on year for silver bullion. American Eagles are another in this mould, but they do change the China panda OBV every year The 2014 Brit was one of my favourites along with the original 1997

I definitely think the designer was making some sort of political statement with the design which obviously the numpties at the RM never picked up on. If this was the best design put forward, i'd hate to have seen the other contenders

Apparently he is a student, but for a 20th Anniversary and 30th for gold it was really disappointing The designer https://csmbajewellery.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/student-louis-tamlyns-britannia-coin-launched-by-the-royal-mint/

The design hasn't gone down to well, rays coming out of her arse etc.......Terrible IMO

Not sure why he feels the need to over saturate every coin he lists, it makes them look more like a cartoon type picture

Mr Blyth tends to overcook his images as he thinks everyone will bid on toned coins, all of his images are the same. Attached is the coin on the PCGS site

Books don't cost thousands, but there is an age old adage around coin collecting, buy the book before the coin......Nice post though, for someone who seems to be doing lots of eBay business, you should maybe consider some books........P.s, there is a pinned thread for fakes, there's also a thread on eBay which generally flags up fakes also, you should maybe scour those threads before making another or else the good stuff gets buried away. Seuk is also a go to guy on fakes, he also has a website on the subject matter Just curious though, how do you know exactly that none of your eBay coins haven't been fakes, do you test them or are you an expert? You could have unwittingly passed more off than you actually realise. The other thing i took from your post was that you buy to sell to buy (making a "couple of quid profit") not sure but all that work and effort for a "couple of quid profit" wouldn't it be better spent, and your money, just buying the right coin straight off the bat for you collection?

These spiked on the 1st and 2nd day after release but now you can't give them away, those greedy people who bought the first coin thought the 2nd would also be a winner but soon found out it wasn't the case

Mintage would be taken from what the RM say and not what a 3rd party reseller states. The order of the beasts between the bullion and proof versions are out of sync due to royalmintbullion, the RM mint are the more numismatic side of coins and the bullion the bullion side. The royal mint wanted to mint the beasts in order of England, Scotland, Ireland and then Wales and the rest to follow however, the bullion side of it decided to do what they wanted and minted however they chose.

The coin is question is the new 200th Anniversary "strike on the day"sovereig, so a week old coin with a large straight line going through it running from The B in ELIZABETH right through Queenies cheeks and looking for opinions on what it could be

No, it's not raised

I doubt you'll get much response without some pictures of what you have. Have a lonely day on Facebook

AU58 translates to only EF, only when you get to MS are you into the GEF region. One thing good about grading is that it's consistently inconsistent, but goldguinea (the seller) is a good customer of LCGS, so perhaps a little hand tickle was made

The 1838 has the same

Maybe ignorant, but what does CNGAF mean?

Funnily enough, those without humour cannot stomach my sarcasm, hey ho I like to call it dry humour these days instead of sarcasm

beeeeetch, sarcastic as ever

Thanks old bean, glad to see you back on site and sharing your experience. Hope all is well after everything..... Off to watch coldplay at the Munich Olympia station and it's pissing down, been sunny for the last few days, sods law

I think @Nordle11 started it somewhere

It won't be described as proof if its been polished (which it has been) now called impaired and UNC or less all due to the polishing, i'm guessing the person who had it didn't realise it was supposed to be matte

You should look for good dealers on there and add them to your followed sellers, one above springs to mind, argentumandcoins, has a great feedback and extremely reliable. I think someone started a dealers list of those who are active on the forum and also deal in coins whether it be ebay or their own site and ebay. They may not always have what you want, but they are very reliable