2005 Britannia proof

drjules · September 12, 2005 3:43AM

Now available from the Royal Mint website

2 pound

Very low mintage so be quick (already ordered mine!)

Dr J

cosmicdebris · September 12, 2005 4:12AM

Excellent and thanks for the heads up. I ordered the 4 COIN PROOF SET.

coinmickey · September 12, 2005 4:12AM

Unfortunately I see the BRM selling 1 ounce of silver for $65. It's a nice coin no doubt but just try to sell it and see what you get. I swore off BRM stuff a long time ago.

Agsin, really nice coin though!!!!!!!!!

drjules · September 12, 2005 4:14AM

I couldn't decide between the one coin and the 4 coin. But I have all the other single coins and the four coin is a slightly higher mintage.

Only 2500 each of the singles ain't many. Do you recall how many were minted in previous years?

Dr J

cosmicdebris · September 12, 2005 4:26AM

Mintage Limits but not mintage actually made.

cosmicdebris · September 12, 2005 4:27AM

<< I couldn't decide between the one coin and the 4 coin. But I have all the other single coins and the four coin is a slightly higher mintage.

Only 2500 each of the singles ain't many. Do you recall how many were minted in previous years?

Dr J >>

Actually 6,000 £2 coins were made. (2,500 singles and 3,500 for the 4 coin set)

Aethelred · September 12, 2005 10:38AM

I'll need the set, thanks for the heads-up!

Aethelred · September 12, 2005 10:39AM

BTW - The actual mintage figures (where known) are located HERE.

cosmicdebris · September 12, 2005 6:05PM

I knew those figures were out there somewhere.

Bailathacl · September 12, 2005 6:39PM

Overpriced yet beautiful.... I hate when life hands you that dilemma....

Aethelred · September 12, 2005 9:17PM

<< Overpriced yet beautiful.... I hate when life hands you that dilemma.... >>

Sometimes you just have to treat yourself!

cosmicdebris · September 14, 2005 12:07AM

Order status: All Backordered

Coinhog · September 30, 2005 8:08AM

<< Now available from the Royal Mint website

2 pound

Very low mintage so be quick (already ordered mine!)

Dr J >>

Actually, I think the mintage is 500 coins higher than last years

cosmicdebris · September 30, 2005 8:26AM

My order was back ordered but it now says in the warehouse. Which means I should have them next week

Tootawl · October 2, 2005 6:19AM

Mine is still backordered.

cosmicdebris · October 2, 2005 7:15AM

Mine now says Shipped Complete

Tootawl · October 2, 2005 8:22AM

<< Mine now says Shipped Complete

>>

wybrit · October 2, 2005 11:44AM

Another nice design. If I wasn't over moderns I'd be all over it.

Freibeuter · October 2, 2005 1:09PM

hehe, yeah, now if only I could get proof from years before I started collecting. anything before 2003 is impossible to find.

cosmicdebris · October 2, 2005 7:18PM

1997, 2001, 2003 & 2005 4 COIN SETS ON EBAY

Freibeuter · October 2, 2005 11:45PM

Bill, I can find sets, but I collect the individual 2pound coins. Those seem to be harder to come by. Although I do see 1997 on ebay.

Brian

cosmicdebris · October 3, 2005 3:48AM

Guess who was waiting for me when I got home?

SYRACUSIAN · October 3, 2005 4:30AM

Their 1/10th oz gold version is the most expensive modern 1/10th oz coin that I know.

In general, I am surprised with BRM's products, very nice gift ideas but the prices!...

1900-1915 half sovereign mint set , 16 coins in total, supposedly in mint condition, although it is not specified in the description for GBP 1395.

George V gold sovereign set, 5 coins in total, GBP 645, condition unknown, although I'm guessing EF or better, perhaps even unc.

Elizabeth II gold sovereign set, 21 coins in total, GBP 2495.I would have expected that for this price they would have put together a BU set, not a very difficult task for the Royal Mint but the description says , <<...are obviously more difficult to find especially when the criteria of “extremely fine” simply must be met. >>,in other words EF or better.

SYRACUSIAN · October 3, 2005 4:49AM

One more thing, there is a serious conflict of interests here, the BRM has no job selling such "historical sets" and competing with coin dealers. It's as if the Post Office starts selling old valuable stamps from their stock, something forbidden by law in most countries.IMHO, the fact that they come in special wooden packagings with COAs and limited mintage (of what, of the box?) doesn't make this more legit.

SYRACUSIAN · October 3, 2005 4:55AM

Pre-decimal set,GBP 24.95, I initially thought that this was a new packaging of the 1970 set, but it's a mixed 1960s type set.

Sorry for having side tracked this thread, it was not my original intention.

shirohniichan · October 3, 2005 5:19AM

The Royal Mint is selling coin sets in Air Tites? Hmmm... if it works for them I guess I'll keep my sets in them.

cosmicdebris · October 3, 2005 5:43AM

Another thing the BRM does is sell current products from other mints at a big markup.

For instance:

Canadian Mint's 2005 22-Karat Gold Coin - Fur traders

Canadian mint price: $489.95 (CAN) $420.45 U.S.
BRM Price: £300 (GPB) $526.41 U.S.

Tootawl · October 13, 2005 8:50AM

<< Mine is still backordered.

>>

Wooo hoooo! The status on my proof Britannia was just changed today to "In Warehouse"!!

Udo · October 13, 2005 2:20PM

<< Pre-decimal set,GBP 24.95, I initially thought that this was a new packaging of the 1970 set, but it's a mixed 1960s type set.

Sorry for having side tracked this thread, it was not my original intention. >>

I bought such a set a few years ago from BRM, Dimitri.
I was wondering if they found the old coins in a forgotten vault, but a british dealer told me that they bought the coins for the sets from dealers.

2005 Britannia proof

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