What's next....Silver forum Rounds, 3 & 5 oz!!

[BackyardBullion]

So, in today's video I unveiled a brand new product for 2019, the 5 oz hammered forum round!

We also announced the return of the 3 oz forum rounds too!

We have been doing a bit of maths over this last week (since filming the video that announced them) and we want to make a correction regards proposed mintages.

The 3 oz rounds will be back with an UNCHANGED mintage for 2019. For those that do not know there will be 50 of them!

The 5 oz hammered rounds are the next and latest edition to the forum products. 

These are very cool and by far and away my favourite product we have ever made for the forum. 

The mintage for these 5 oz rounds will be 25. 

So, we will be looking to contact previous owners over the next few months to confirm whether people would like their 3 oz round again, feel free if you are a previous owner to let me know here whether you would like to take up your previous serial number.

As to reservations for the 5 oz hammered rounds - we anticipate these to be quite popular and as such have not worked out how to do/organise the reservations yet. We will work on this and advise when we know what we are going to do, but an expression of interest in this thread would not go amiss!

[Lr103]

 

7 minutes ago, BackyardBullion said:

We will work on this and advise when we know what we are going to do, but an expression of interest in this thread would not go amiss!

These look great!  Consider interest expressed for the 5oz round. 😊

[AndrewSL76]

I’m interested in both offerings! I haven’t previously bought a ‘forum round’ so appreciate there may not be any available!

Thank you!

[Piggybank]

I'm also interested in both of them

[TheGeneral]

I will probably have one of each if I may. 

[FlorinCollector]

Hi byb I won number 01 last time id be looking for it again is that possible?

[augur]

Would it be possible to carry over the previous serial number(s) on the 3oz?

Since the 5oz has half the mintage: maybe for every two previous 3oz 1 ticket/number of the 5oz?

 

However I do understand that the forum has grown and interest might be bigger, so I am happy to give up some of my numbers if interest in these great products is high. 

[Bullionbilly]

Those 5oz Hammered are superb @BackyardBullion. Imho better looking than scottsdale nugget bars. The finer hammer marks look great 

[BackyardBullion]

6 minutes ago, augur said:

Would it be possible to carry over the previous serial number(s) on the 3oz?

Since the 5oz has half the mintage: maybe for every two previous 3oz 1 ticket/number of the 5oz?

 

However I do understand that the forum has grown and interest might be bigger, so I am happy to give up some of my numbers if interest in these great products is high. 

We will be able to continue serial numbers as we have done for previous forum products.

The difficulty with the 5 oz rounds is that with it 25 being made and them likely to be very popular we might have to draw ballots for who gets them.

We cannot do more than 25 of them without dropping the mintage on the 3 oz rounds.

Also, I would prefer to keep the 5 oz hammered rounds as a low mintage showcase product to round out 2019.

The hammered rounds take a lot of time to make - it took me about 45 minutes all told to get this prototype all done and dusted so making more than 25 would be a time commitment issue for me too!

[augur]

18 minutes ago, BackyardBullion said:

it took me about 45 minutes [...] to get this prototype done

Wow 😲 some 3 days for the anticipated mintage...

maybe if you superimposed the 2017 Britannia image Regalstacker could give it a whack 😝 

[mozzer94]

I would be also be interested in the 5 oz the hammered look is mesmerising 

[CadmiumGreen]

Previous years two please, and you have enticed me into a fiver...😁

[5huggy]

ByB =- please put me into the hat  -for a 5ounce hammered! Im interested- 😊

[NeutronJack]

Hi @BackyardBullion

Although not a previous buyer of the 3oz round, I'd be very interested in picking one up this time round.

I'd also welcome the opportunity for a shot at one of the new 5oz hammered rounds.

Both look fantastic!

NeutronJack

[Bluenitsuj]

Interested in the 5oz if you can add me to the list please 

[boon]

most excellent work yet again 😎 interest here in both 👍

[dicker]

Hi BYB,

I am interested in a hammered 5oz round.

Best

Tim

[kimchi]

Great to hear the lovely 3oz forum round will remain at the same mintage!

Same as last year for me there please BYB, and I would also be interested in the lovely new 5oz - be it a draw from a hat or organized any other way please put me down as 'up for it'!

[StackemHigh]

The hammered 5oz looks great. The all important price?

[BackyardBullion]

Just now, StackemHigh said:

The hammered 5oz looks great. The all important price?

We have not worked out the final price yet, it's partially based on the time required to hammer all of them. I hope to have a formal announcement on these (and the 3 oz rounds) in the next few weeks.

[Abyss]

As demand greater than the available supply I believe I have worked out a fair and amicable way to allocate 5 oz hammered forum rounds (look awesome btw) from an impartial perspective. Those forum members bought younger brother last year 3 oz Silver Forum round have option to buy the bigger brother 5 oz hammered forum round 1st. I also believe we should start the process by those forum members that have the lowest serial number in last years 3 oz rounds. As you can see from the photos below I am completely impartial to this method of allocation       

Being more realistic BYB is it not possible that those of use interested in the 5 oz hammered forum round could purchase the silver shot through the group order via European Mint and pay for your time and effort? Avoid cost of the raw materials hitting your books and keeping you below the VAT threshold while potentially increasing the available mintage?

[5huggy]

13 hours ago, BackyardBullion said:

We have not worked out the final price yet, it's partially based on the time required to hammer all of them. I hope to have a formal announcement on these (and the 3 oz rounds) in the next few weeks.

I think you should employ a helper!

thinking along the lines of a “flint stone esq “ WOODPECKER”

🤣

[engire]

I'd like to opt for the 3 oz round for the number I had last year.

[AndrewSL76]

2 hours ago, Abyss said:

those of use interested in the 5 oz hammered forum round could purchase the silver shot through the group order via European Mint and pay for your time and effort?

This is a really sensible solution, but may be dependent upon what happens in Parliament over the next few weeks...I believe that the deadline for purchases is currently 22 September 2019, so if this is appropriate, we would need to know quite soon. I would happily purchase the relevant weight for a few 3 and 5 oz rounds where this suggestion is acceptable and the mintage is not so limited. Though we have to bear in mind that this will not just be about VAT but also production/blister time!

[BackyardBullion]

Regarding the VAT situation.

I appreciate the suggestions from everyone, but we have a good and robust business plan going forward for the next 12 months and currently we are working close to capacity in terms of my time and capabilities anyway - so the potential for additional work is not really that appealing!

The 3 and 5 oz rounds have both been accounted for within our business plan for the year - so no-one need worry about that side of things.