Royal Mint buying stuff back...

[mint_mark 9]

A friend of mine is in the Royal Mint coin club (no, really) and gave me the latest "newsletter" to look at. In the accompanying letter is an offer from the Royal Mint to buy back examples of the 1998 four coin gold proof set. I don't know how the offer price compares to the original issue price.

Why do you think they do that then?

[Sylvester 15]

The Royal mint does buy back on type of set (gold i believe) because one of the coins in it is an error. Wrong reverse or something so they'll take them back and issue the correct one for you. So maybe this is the one and same? (Perhaps they don't have any correct sets left? And now they're just buying?)