closed Pre-order next 2 weeks only - New China Tri-metalic dragon and phoenix series medals

[Guest]

THIS IS A PRE-ORDER FOR DELIVERY IN LATE APRIL/EARLY MAY

As many of you will know I have been taking more of an interest in Chinese medals recently and I have reached an agreement with the distributors to offer certain medals that I think have a particular interest here in the UK and Europe to those who are interested. I have been picking the medals I think will be successful so there is a little bit of value added there.

You may have seen the Phoenix and Dragon series recently. I bought 2 for my collection, one of the regular Trimetalic and one "antiqued". I know others here on the forum have some of these already and the feedback has been very positive.

This was the original Dragon and Phoenix and it had a Silver centre, brass obverse and Copper Reverse.

There are two more in the series that have been produced by Nanjing Mint and these are very low mintage and are so some extent prototypes for difficult production processes.

Here is the technical wizardry:

1. A breakthrough advance technology of Nanjing Mints to cast and strike three different metals brass, copper and silver together tightly as showed in video instead of using industry glue which is common in practise.

2. Generally the traditional mirror sandblasting process for 45 mm diameter high relief medal is around height of 0.5mm. However, Nanjing mint has made another high relief technology breakthrough of 3mm.  Generally, the mirror sandblasting process must strike once rather than repeated numerous times.

To make this happen for the Dragon and Phoenix Tri-metallic medal using the latest technology of three times casting and striking to merge the three metals by numerous dies’ This is different technology with the classical garden since it is tri-metallic instead of one metal only.

3. This is the first China tri-metallic medal not using industry glue and striking the silver which is soft element with the hard element of brass and copper with massive surface of silver. The first version of tri-metallic Dragon and phoenix medal which with Mintage of 299 is easier than this version even it is a technology breakthrough in the world.

So what we have in summary is two new medals and I have managed to secure 6 of each to offer to forum members at a pretty great price for PRE-ORDER. The total mintage for BOTH these two medals combined will be 199 only. It is likely that the number made of medal 1 will be slightly less due to the greater manufacturing difficulty.

MEDAL 1 - Tri-metallic Dragon and Phoenix - Silver and Copper Obverse with Brass Koi Reverse

Obverse Silver 30g with copper centre

Reverse Brass

MEDAL 2 - Tri-metallic Dragon and Phoenix - Brass with Copper Centre and Silver Reverse

Obverse - Brass and Copper

Reverse - Silver

Medals are Proof, with Box and COA and are official mint medals and can be submitted to NGC etc for grading.

I think these will prove very popular. If you would like to order one here are the details:

Medal 1 £94 delivered to UK or Europe

Medal 2 £92 delivered to UK or Europe

Pair of Medals £185 delivered to UK or Europe

Payment by bank transfer UK banks or by Paypal Gift to secure pre-order.

Pre-order expires 17th April or when my allocation runs our which ever is sooner.

 

 

 

[daz]

couple of questions:

is this just a series of these three variants or will it be a ongoing series ?

what is the actual diameter of the coin ?

can you still purchase the original release anywhere ?

cheers

[Guest]

1 hour ago, daz said:

couple of questions:

is this just a series of these three variants or will it be a ongoing series ?

what is the actual diameter of the coin ?

can you still purchase the original release anywhere ?

cheers

Hi daz the first tri-metallic was a mintage of 299. The medals are 45mm in diameter which means they fit within a standard width NGC and PCGS holder.

I am not aware if there will be other variants in future but these new variants are interesting to me because the silver content is much higher and the mintages are lower. They break new ground technically and if the one i have of the first Tri-metallic is anything to go by - one of the most beauiful Chinese medals in my collection.

 

[MCJ]

Hi  Numi, 

Can you please let me know if the first medal, the one below,

 Is still available anywhere?

 

[Guest]

I can probably find one from one of my contacts. None on eBay at the moment. I will ask.

[MCJ]

Cheers

[Guest]

Cheers

Chinese medals confirmed sold out. He has one in his collection and he knows of 4 graded ones in USA

[MCJ]

Thanks for finding that out for me. Think I'll give the other two a miss though, as I've missed the first one. Shame, as I really like them. 

[sovereignsteve]

It mentions 30g weight silver in coin 1, is this the total weight or just the silver part?

Just like to know to get a feel for it.

[Agpanda]

It will be 30g silver in #2 and #3, #1 only have a small amount silver in the center cone

[Guest]

Yes the two new ones have much more silver and much greater manufacture difficulty. I think Nanjing mint is the most technically advanced of the four official China mints.

[daz]

I really like these tbh , It's my birthday in a couple of weeks so I will have a word with the Mrs and see how generous she is feeling  , will you be able to source some more of these Chinese medals in the future ? 

[Guest]

They will be available for $160 odd from Chinese dealers on eBay after the pre order so this saves about £25 I guess.

[daz]

I meant different designs in the future, I don't really like dealing with Chinese ebayers. But I really like some of these medals that you and morezone post up and wouldn't mind getting a few as funds allow

[Agpanda]

There is a few chinese ebayers that can be trusted

We might can put together a list of trusted ones

There is a link to the medalsite on my homepage

Chinesemedals.com

[Guest]

There is a few chinese ebayers that can be trusted

We might can put together a list of trusted ones

There is a link to the medalsite on my homepage

Chinesemedals.com

This pre order is curtesy of Andy Lee of Chinese Medals and my plan was to try to bring a pre order period to the forum and allow members here to get in first on anything good.

[Cornishfarmer]

Not interested in any of these  @Numistacker but great work getting a good contact in China and will be interested is some in the future if any tickle my fancy.

[Guest]

Not interested in any of these  @Numistacker but great work getting a good contact in China and will be interested is some in the future if any tickle my fancy.

They are not for everyone )) but they are beautiful and have a good following

[daz]

sorry @Numistacker , couple more questions is that the price to my door ? am i liable to get stung with import duties? and im presuming its a insured delivery ? 

[Guest]

sorry @Numistacker , couple more questions is that the price to my door ? am i liable to get stung with import duties? and im presuming its a insured delivery ? 

Medals will be delivered to me in the uk.

It covers postage 1st class signed for in uk and if you want special delivery then that's extra £4 per shipment.

[Guest]

Thanks guys for the first pre orders. Current availability is

Medal 1 silver obverse

4 available

Medal 2 silver reverse

5 available

[morezone]

@mcj would you like me to enquire about sourcing the first one?

[MCJ]

1 hour ago, morezone said:

@mcj would you like me to enquire about sourcing the first one?

Yes please, if you don't mind, that would be great

[morezone]

41 minutes ago, MCJ said:

Yes please, if you don't mind, that would be great

Done.  Hopefully hear back in a day or so.

[MCJ]

What a star, thank you.