Shinus73

Also, several wondering if QEII will make it to 2026. Probably not, but this series will see off a few collectors as well!

I like the idea of this series and picked up a 2 oz silver. Feels like 2010 and the start of the ATB series. Commitment needed to see it through and good to be in at the start. Having said that, I gave up on the ATB’s with 18 months to go, so who am I kidding…

Stern Lady Liberty.

Key date Libertad.

Even by RM standards, this was a clown show.

True. I did successfully claim once, but this was many years ago and I suspect that I might not get the same outcome now. Another claim I made led to the return of a coin months after it had disappeared. It turned up in a sorting office in Germany, where it had been mistakenly sent instead of Greece. 😁

That’s certainly fine for eBay, but if you end up having to claim compensation from Royal Mail, you’ll be glad you still have the receipt.

In theory, you should only have to keep them for the length of the returns period, which is usually 14 days, but I keep mine for 3 months minimum, just to ensure that any possibility of an issue has disappeared. I generally throw them in my drawer and forget about them for a good while, before having a clear out every now and then.

I’m a long time seller on eBay, almost 20 years. First few years buying and selling vinyl and the last 12 years or so, the same thing with coins. Never been on the end of an attempted sting until very recently, but it’s happened twice in the last month. First occasion, a £5,000 coin took the interest of a buyer in Japan. However, as the Global Shipping Program no longer ships to Japan, and I am unwilling to take the risk of shipping overseas independently, the sale could not proceed. The interested party then informed me that they have an address in the UK and would I ship there. I agreed, as long as the address was first registered as an official eBay shipping address on his account. Once this had happened we processed with the sale. Only at this stage did I realise that the address wasn’t on the UK mainland, but on Guernsey (my bad). This worried me a great deal, as it involved a customs declaration which I had wanted to avoid, but the item duly arrived after several days delay with the taxman. Fast forward a week and the fun begins. I received a message from the buyer stating that although the item had arrived, the courier he had intended to use for the next leg to Japan, was no longer willing to carry the shipment, and they wanted to return the coin and have me send it to an alternative address. This would have invalidated my eBay seller protection, so I ignored the message and waited for a refund request which never came. My conclusion is that the buyer was simply chancing his arm in the hope that I was naïve enough to do as he asked. Eight weeks later, the buyer is still sending me messages with the same request, which I continue to ignore and will report when I find the time. Second occasion, today, a buyer opened a refund request (£400) claiming the item had not arrived. Alarm bells immediately rang for me, as this coin was shipped 13 days ago, one day before the 14 day returns period ends. Nobody waits 13 days to report a £400 coin that hasn’t arrived, when they know it’s been shipped Special Delivery. The pertinent point here is that I had not completed the tracking details on eBay. The buyer has waited as long as possible before opening the case, in the hope that I no longer have the tracking details and therefore, have no way to prove that the item was delivered. Five minutes after uploading the tracking details complete with signature, the buyer sent me a message to say he’d made a mistake and had intended to open a case on a different item. Another chancer. You have to understand the rules before selling anything of value on eBay. Be careful and always keep your tracking details.

I doubt it, because they collect graded coins.

I agree with a lot of what is said in this thread, but I don’t quite understand the assertion that people are buying the slab, not the coin. Clearly, people are buying both, but appear to be willing to pay significantly more for the ‘perfect’ example, where these are in plentiful supply. Where there are relatively few examples (or none) they’ll settle for less. I think it’s fair to say that collectors of most things, want the best example they can afford. It’s like telling somebody who pays £50,000 for a rare bottle of whisky, that they’re paying for the bottle, not the liquid (which would be pretty similar to many others). They’re paying for the whole package, that’s the point.

Been a long time coming. Purchased last summer, took many months to arrive and several more to grade. Worth the wait. Key date, 250 mintage.

Lovely gold tiger. Silver tiger, oddly cartoonish, but will be a grower. Nicest Kookaburra for ages.

No, it’s nuts. The devaluing of 69’s in relation to 70’s, or the potential for a 70, continues at pace. I’m buying the PF / MS 69’s at the right price, hoping it reverses a bit.

Don’t forget the privy marks!

This gives all bullion versions: https://www.perthmint.com/investment-bullion-bars-and-coins-mintages.aspx You’ll have to scour the separate years of numismatic data to find proofs: https://www.perthmint.com/numismatic-mintages.aspx

I started in August 2010, a couple of months after my first and only child was born. I don’t remember the two things being directly linked, but psychologically, they probably were. I had around £3,000 in a cash ISA, which I decided to do something more interesting with. My first purchase was a 1996 1 oz Kookaburra from eBay, for around £20. When it arrived in the post, I knew that I’d found a lifelong hobby. As it happens, August 2010 was pretty much in the middle of the bull market that culminated with the April 2011 high, crazy times. Since then, pretty much every spare penny I have (after household bills and treats have been paid) has gone into silver or gold, and a little bit of platinum. It’s basically a brilliant savings vehicle for me and ensures I always have funds available, if needed. My stack has also grown to the point that it will act as a pension pot in its own right. I do a similar thing with whisky.

I got an NGC MS64 1918 India Sovereign for £20 less than my maximum bid, which is always a bonus.

Definitely agree with this.

Yes, you would think he would have learned to let it lie by now, but apparently not.

I’m aware of that and entirely disagree with the approach, but that doesn’t change the fact that the parties who are repeatedly relating this story, have their own agenda.

It also needs to be pointed out that the people who constantly push these shill bidding stories are a couple of utter ‘terrible’ cans. They spend their days on Facebook groups slandering all manner of people, whilst being barely able to string together a coherent sentence. The target of these people is usually the same person, a high profile former member of this site, who has my implicit trust, despite the slightly acrimonious departure from the forum. Don’t let the modern trend for out and out paranoia, allow you to be misled by people who act out of jealousy and malice.

The only new Queens Beasts coin appears to be a 5 kg gold, which probably won’t affect me.

Generally around £10.

I remember this, but couldn’t bring myself to spend anything like a significant amount of money on the worst coin ever made.