Bxlsteve

Put me in aswell please.

Don’t laugh with our misery… we have all suffered tragic boating experiences. Still have nightmare about that moment of Great Depression

Interesting topic, here you simply don’t find those coins in high street shops.

If no satisfaction you have to options. 1/ sell now and buy something you enjoy immediately. 2/ wait and hope the special design will go up in value and sell later. i know my opinion on the pink sovs is not popular but I like it very much. It makes for something different than all the other yellow gold coins you can find. I’m my case it is what drew me to collect them in the first place.

I have to disagree with you… Taste for example is measured with biterness or sweetness or saltiness or… For a wine it can be expressed on a scale… from 0-100 then your scales have models as to how wine should be on these scales… so it is quantifiable and it is perfectly metric. so no it is not an opinion.

Something as grading is NOT subjective and is NOT different for everyone. just as with all things as tasting wine there is no subjectivity in the quality aspects of a great bottle of wine. It depends whoever on the experience of the taster. with great experience and capacity (olfactory or other) you can sample and note something on a very reliable quality measure. not everyone has that experience, hence why you trust books and experts in the bottles you buy at the correct price. i can like something of lesser quality or different quality but quality is not equal to liking. if now, i would like to taste something that I can not fully appreciate because I don’t have the experience it is also my right but I trust the competent people to have judge the quality of the product. if you think that quality is subjective, think about your speciality, there is something you probably know more than others and where you van judge quality better than most… because you have the most reference. it always annoys me that people think that quality is subjective in any fields it is not. This discussion I will gladly go in depth with anyone who want my 2 cents in mp lol

My two cents, all this happened before my tragic boat incident off course… i am a collector at heart… so for stacking to work for me… I always knew I needed an extra part of beauty within the object. that is where proof coins helped me to grow my stack. it was the first time I spend money on collecting something that has intrinsic value to it. So I loved my proof coins, and whatever happens with the collection part of the coin (grow or loose interest)… it has value from the métal it is made of.

Those poor leprechauns will be destroyed if not prepped for that to happened. defenetly a #11

Hello, I was wondering the last day if proof coins where a little bit more safe concerning fakes. Or is it the opposite, with the higher premiums attached to them are they more a target for fakes. your thought and experience on this subject… Steve

Have we yet seen the too of the iceberg?

Selling or not selling, that is the question 😇🤣🤩

Nothing new in my comment but the obvious, if you take the time to create a pseudo on this forum, why on earth not writing first and foremost a message to bleyer themselves first? Then a message asking for help in there forum part? Especially as they have an official presence here ? I also always found that the best way to find help with a compagny, is by trying to work with them… on a last but important note for a new buyer, i would like to note, I remember when I bought my first coins (which I all lost in a tragic boat incident on the coast of Sardaigne) I was very stressed out by the postage part and by the time it took for them to arrive. Anything that happened during that period of waiting (including passeport checks) seemed terrible. This mostly as people always tells you there are so many fraudulent sellers. The last coins I bought before that accident, I was way more relaxed and understood some delay might happened. Cheers

Thank you for that. what bothers me with the % over spot and pricing of those proof coins is that no other gold proof coins of any other série from Austrian mint had a fluctuating price structure from year on year. any set of the past respected the price point of the serie regardless of spot (or the whole série price went up when spot went sky high) that is why I find this confusing.

hello everyone, sorry to dig up this topic… I was wondering what justified the huge price increase between the two coins? they are both still available, they are both proofs of same mintage… i really don’t get it. what I understand is the time where they where minted… but for so many reasons this seems not the possible answer. many thanks to whoever has any idea…