Gildeon

And here is my first (and probably last...) order from the Royal mint.

On another note, do you know any European dealer that sells the carded versions of the RM products?

1 minute ago, DisplayName said:

Very glad to hear the scam was mostly dropped! Should be €0 to pay with everything dropped right? Can't admin if there's nothing to admin.

At this point I am not even questioning the 3.5€! 😅

And to be fair it was the An Post support that did all the communication with Revenue, so I am fine with that.

Finally got a reply and the charges were removed! They kept 3.5€ for admin fee, but I am not complaining 😁

However I don't think I will be going through this again. For the moment UK is out of my reach for purchases... 😕

Came back to the forum recently after a few years of not dealing with precious metals. Used to do a lot of buying and selling with UK before Brexit, but this is not the case anymore, due to custom charges. At the moment the forum seems 90% UK focused, so unfortunately I don't see much happening outside of that. This applies to sales of course, the informative threads are always interesting.

I sent an email (very detailed) about a week ago, to an address they gave me from customer service. Still waiting for response, but to be fair, there were many holidays this period.

Three beautiful and collectable coins from 1967, in NGC slabs and with the Austria label. The 5 and 10 Schilling coins are top pop in the NGC tables!

The price is 45€ per coin and payment by BT, Revolut or PayPal. Postage cost is 4€ regular and 10€ registered, anywhere in Europe. If someone buys all three, registered postage will be free!

4 minutes ago, stackspot said:

Why go to the Royal Mint for bullion gold? Surely Chards would be better for all that

I wanted the version in the card, I couldn't find it any dealer. And the problem with ordering from UK would probably remain.

https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2010/act/31/section/90/enacted/en/html

I found this describing "investment gold" and my sovereign definitely falls under this description.

Royal Mint just replied on how I can see my transaction history, so practically the only thing I could do already!

No response about the invoice I need or why I was charged VAT etc. I replied all this and waiting.. Now I just want to cancel the order and get my money back if possible. This hassle isn't worth it really...

Thank you for all your replies and suggestions. I will try to reply to everything in one go:

1. For some strange reason my order does not appear in the purchases in my Royal Mint account. I have only found it in the Transactions marked as "delivered". When I sent a message through their form, it was also asking for customer number, which I couldn't locate. Not very happy with how the whole site works so far, but let's see if and what they reply...
2. If I can just send it back and get a refund I would be fine. But I had read that they don't accept returns in bullion, is this the case?
3. From the Irish post they gave me an email address to send all the details for my dispute. One issue is that I don't even have an invoice, I can't retrieve anything from my Royal Mont account! So I have to wait for their reply first.
4. However this finishes, I think that UK is out of reach for me, under the present circumstances. Which is a pity, because there is a very alive community over there and plenty of good deals. 😕

I will keep updating here with any news.

I haven't been active in the last few years, as my attention had moved to other things. Now I am getting back into the coins world and one of my first stops was to get back here. The forum has always been a good source of information for me, and I have bought and sold a lot of stuff in here. But that was in the pre-Brexit time... 🙄

I was interested in a couple of silver bars but other members informed me that silver would be charged with VAT when going through customs. So I gave up on that and looked at gold. I ordered a half sovereign from the Royal Mint and today I got notification from the post that I was charged with 23% VAT and they had also valued the item about 30% more than I had paid! My impression was that investment gold shouldn't be charged with VAT. I just sent an email to Royal Mint to ask about all this.

If this is the case, it makes purchasing or selling anything to and from UK untenable, at least for me. I would like to hear other opinions and see if I am missing something. 🤔

Hi, do you know if there are any taxes for postage to Europe (Ireland)?

I would like one please, will pm you

I will like one please, will pm you

On 12/02/2024 at 17:08, Alexz said:

Unfortunately, combining/storing orders with goldsilver.be is not possible anymore as of this year. I asked them about it and the reply was this option is not possible anymore. The shipping costs (37 euro to the Netherlands, don't know about other countries) remain high sadly.

It is 59€ for Ireland... 🤔

I had a set from 1991-2019 of gilded Kookaburras. Some of them were private versions, especially the latest ones. never seen the first (1990) in gilded.

I know that some were official versions with box and certificate. But not sure if they are the only ones.

@LawrenceChardthank you for the wealth of information. 🧐 Some great points in your post, that I will try to keep in mind in the future.

The medal was bought from Emporium Hamburg auction and the link is here https://www.biddr.com/auctions/emporiumhamburg/browse?a=1699&l=1838753

I hope that helps. I would mainly like to have some more info about gold %, so I can create a pretty accurate sales description.

9 minutes ago, CollectForFun said:

I wouldn't call it a restrike, but rather replica. And just bear in mind that many replica coins like this are produced from 14k or 22k gold, rather than pure gold. What info did you get from the auction listing? Did it just say a "gold coin"?

BTW did you check this source for potential info?

Yes, that's the one, thank you. Page has a subscription though... 🤔

This is the page from the auction:

10 hours ago, Liam84 said:

"Charles the Emperor"

"King of Sicily"

Charles V Holy Roman Emperor, which matches with the 1 Tari silver coin linked to above. Finding this particular coin/medal is proving extremely difficult though 👀

What's the 1967 about I wonder? Have you tested it to ascertain the metal @Gildeon?

The 1967 is the year of the restrike I suppose. Haven't tested it, since it was bought for around 200€, and I don't have any cheap way to do it here. And the fact it was bought from a big auction house makes me not to worry really. But before I sell it, I would like to provide the potential buyers with as much info as possible.

5 minutes ago, KevinFlynn said:

Look down this page for another example of an original coin.

 

Thanks but I am mostly looking for info about the restrikes. 🧐

One more try to get more information about this. I want to put it for sale but not sure about the gold percentage. I got it from a big auction house, so I feel quite confident about its authenticity, but not easy to sell without knowing the grade. 🙄

Three Lincoln sets from 1967, all with different labels, including the latest San Francisco one. All with RD designation, which is a must for my copper coins.

Two more gold coins won in auctions. Tunisia 5 dinars (9.55 gr.) and Lichtenstein medal (6.95 gr.)