Biggest disappointment on buying

[silversurf]

As a newbie some 9 months ago I decided to jump in to pm' s and buy my first coin. It was a 2017 silver britannia it lòks a beauty from the Photo's. What a disappointment... nothing about it stood out and as for the pebble dash finish well enough said.....im sure there are lots of coins that have had a similar response.

In my case it wasn't a big outlay. BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

Saying that have fallen for the proof versions as a new collection. 

Any other love/hate relationships???

[vand]

Nope. It's all just silver.

[silversurf]

Too true....

[Thelonerangershorse]

15 minutes ago, silversurf said:

im sure there are lots of coins that have had a similar response.

Go buy yourself a zombiedog, your Britannia will soon start to look pretty good.

[silversurf]

Not seen that, will have to look it up, don't disappoint me !!!!

[silversurf]

You're right, I bought the chicken masquerading as a rooster as well. Happy days.....

[Silverhunter]

Check the Rwanda coins old brits are awful

[Kman]

1/10 Britannia, that was very small.. very bland

A 1887 half-crown, very dull and junk looking

The most disappointing thing in the world though is getting a coin you like and inspecting it to find out it has scratches or spots 

[ilovesilverireallydo]

The size of the 1 gram maple. Normally I am easily tempted to remove coins from blister packing - this I wasnt at all. I would probably loose it if I did. Its well made, but they should have gone for diameter instead of depth. 

[PansPurse]

20 minutes ago, ilovesilverireallydo said:

The size of the 1 gram maple. Normally I am easily tempted to remove coins from blister packing - this I wasnt at all. I would probably loose it if I did. Its well made, but they should have gone for diameter instead of depth. 

Just got mine. Yes, absolutely with you, without the blister I'll lose the damn thing, maybe I should send it to be graded/slabbed 

That said it makes my half sov look much bigger

[OldBoyStacker]

The UK Silver Stacker Rounds are a great disappointment to me, and agree with Kman about the 1/10th gold brits being a bit, well.. naff.

[mr-dead]

Many years ago when I first started stacking I thought I got a last minute bargain on ebay.

a "Nordic" gold coin that had zero gold in it, good job it was cheap lol.

[metallica73]

Mine have to be the Ghana 100 Cedis 'error'

Might just have got unlucky but all 3 I had (moved them on now) turned milky real quick.

[KDave]

Things appear to have changed at the royal mint in recent times, but a couple of years ago everything I bought had scratches and finger prints to some degree or another. Especially the proof coins, for some reason they had to have 2 or 3 goes to get it right and postage costs and trips down to the post office to return the coins became a routine.  The last one (last straw really) was the quarter ounce gold queens beast proof lion, scratched up - I sent it back for a refund. I would call the experience the end of a cumulative series of disappointments from them. Then just when I thought it couldn't get any worse they released their version of lunar year of the dog. 

[AgD]

1 hour ago, KDave said:

Things appear to have changed at the royal mint in recent times, but a couple of years ago everything I bought had scratches and finger prints to some degree or another. Especially the proof coins, for some reason they had to have 2 or 3 goes to get it right and postage costs and trips down to the post office to return the coins became a routine.  The last one (last straw really) was the quarter ounce gold queens beast proof lion, scratched up - I sent it back for a refund. I would call the experience the end of a cumulative series of disappointments from them. Then just when I thought it couldn't get any worse they released their version of lunar year of the dog. 

But did you see that the royal mint put out a YouTube video and "how it was made" and the inspiration for the coin from the designer !! Well just a load of bad really so now you know why the coin was so bad ?

[Strongy]

Just bought a few "Silver Shield Pieces of Eight", they look really nice in pictures but the finish of the coin in the flesh is not great.

The relief isnt deep enough, so the design become quite hard to distinguish, ok but disappointed as it could have been much nicer.