Royal Canadian Mint Gold Plated Silver Sovereign

[SilverPanFan]

I have been looking at the RCM's website recently and I noticed that they had produced a gold plated silver sovereigns to commemorate the one hundredth year anniversary of 1908 sovereign as it was released last year. Since most of your on the forum are from the United Kingdom I wanted to know what your thoughts are one the coin and what makes 1908 a special year. 

Here is the link to the coin:

https://www.mint.ca/store/coins/1-oz.-pure-silver-gold-plated-coin---the-1908-sovereign-110th-anniversary-of-the-royal-canadian-mint---mintage-5000-2018-prod3300011

P.S. I wish the US mint would allow customer to buy back dated special coins for a while instead of having them "sold out" like some other mints allow. I think the Royal mint does a fantastic job this by allowing the public to buy classic sovereigns with the assurance of obtaining real gold with fantastic designs.

[AppleZippoandMetronome]

There was another thread here where a member shared the gold plated silver proof as well as the solid gold version and the comments here weren't positive for it. I've done a couple searches but can't find the thread otherwise I would link you to it. 1908 is a "special" year in this case because it was when some Sovereigns were minted in Ottawa so this was meant as a 110 year celebration of that. If its a coin you like I would say get it but I don't personally think it will ever be worth what the RCM is selling it for on the secondary market. It has been out for a number of months now and the website isn't even giving an indication that there is limited stock left so they clearly haven't been selling well.

[CadmiumGreen]

23 minutes ago, AppleZippoandMetronome said:

There was another thread here where a member shared the gold plated silver proof as well as the solid gold version and the comments here weren't positive for it. I've done a couple searches but can't find the thread otherwise I would link you to it. 1908 is a "special" year in this case because it was when some Sovereigns were minted in Ottawa so this was meant as a 110 year celebration of that. If its a coin you like I would say get it but I don't personally think it will ever be worth what the RCM is selling it for on the secondary market. It has been out for a number of months now and the website isn't even giving an indication that there is limited stock left so they clearly haven't been selling well.

Concur, not positive comments from folks here on TSF, as can be reviewed in the above posted link.

 

[AppleZippoandMetronome]

1 minute ago, CadmiumGreen said:

Concur, not positive comments from folks here on TSF, as can be reviewed in the above posted link.

 

Thanks for digging that up!

[SilverPanFan]

I kind of like it even though most memebes here think it's just a gimmick coin.