PCGS and Royal Mint

drjules · July 6, 2004 8:46AM

Anybody else seen this?

Link

and does anyone know what price these items may fetch and who is going to sell them? Does the Royal Mint office in the US have a sales department?

Dr J

SYRACUSIAN · July 6, 2004 9:00AM

For additional information about availability of the British Royal Mint's PCGS-certified coins, contact the British Royal Mint, 14101 Southcross Drive, Burnsville, MN 55337. Phone: (877) 564-6468

Now authenticated, graded and encapsulated by PCGS, these coins are being offered to the public exclusively by Asset Marketing Services, Inc. of Burnsville, Minnesota.

drjules · July 6, 2004 9:04AM

My day of requiring new glasses continues

Thanks for reading that article for me!

So any forum members going to purchase said items?

Dr J

farthing · July 6, 2004 9:51AM

Isn't that Wybrits' address?

trozau · July 6, 2004 10:34AM

wybrit · July 6, 2004 10:46AM

Isn't that Wybrits' address?

I would be north of the river!

Steve27 · July 6, 2004 8:50PM

I couldn't help but notice that they listed everything but the price. I bet they're going to be expensive.

theboz11 · July 6, 2004 8:58PM

Well sure they are if they are coming all the way from Burnsville MN.

MrEureka · July 6, 2004 10:34PM

Pristine-condition UK gold coins, some of them decades' old and obtained from the secondary market by the British Royal Mint

"Obtained in the secondary market"?!!!

trozau · July 7, 2004 12:17AM

A total of 600 British proof £2 and £5 gold pieces, dating from 1980 through 2003, recently were shipped directly from the British Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Wales in the United Kingdom to the Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) division of Collectors Universe in Newport Beach, California. The coins then were carefully examined, graded, and sealed in PCGS holders with specially-printed inserts displaying a Union Jack flag and the official crest of the British Royal Mint. Twenty of the 600 coins merited a designation of PCGS PR-70, eleven £5 and nine £2 gold pieces, and 573 others were graded PCGS PR-69. PCGS experts were impressed with the extremely high level of quality, attesting both to the excellence of the British Royal Mint's products that are specially-struck for collectors and to the superb preservation of the delicate proof surfaces of the coins in their protective packaging after many years in the market place.

Impressive population distribution. 20 - 70s and 573 - 69s. I wonder if the other 7 are 68s?

Conder101 · July 7, 2004 5:55AM

I'll probably have to try and locate on of the two pound PR-69's. More money wasted on another novelty holder.

drjules · July 7, 2004 6:35AM

<< <i>I'll probably have to try and locate on of the two pound PR-69's. More money wasted on another novelty holder. >>

I am so happy to have started a spending spree

MrSpud · July 7, 2004 10:05AM

I saw a few of what look like some slabbed PCGS Royal Mint coins on www.pandaamerica.com when I looked up gold Brittanias. This probably isn't the new ones they just slabbed because they don't have the royal mint logo on them, but they may be of interest. Here is a link to one of them Link

Conder101 · July 8, 2004 12:00AM

That was the "First coins of the millennium" holder. I already have one of them. Unfortunately for me the major two firms have created a lot of novelty type slabs in the past few years, usually with either expensive coins or over hyped coins in them. For example the gold labels SS Central America PCGS slabs or the current SS Republic NGC slabs.

trozau · July 12, 2004 4:58AM

The 11 - PR70 £5 gold are as follows:

6 - 2002 Shield type
5 - 2003 St George type

Both with the the current older effigy of QEII.

drjules · July 12, 2004 5:19AM

So how many darksiders are going to invest in these slabs?

Dr J

trozau · July 12, 2004 5:26AM

<< <i>So how many darksiders are going to invest in these slabs?

Dr J >>

I don't really see these as being investment materials, but I will get one of the 5 and 2 Pounds if the price is right (i.e. not much premium or close to what a raw one would go for in the secondary market).

shirohniichan · July 12, 2004 9:47AM

<< <i>That was the "First coins of the millennium" holder. I already have one of them. Unfortunately for me the major two firms have created a lot of novelty type slabs in the past few years, usually with either expensive coins or over hyped coins in them. For example the gold labels SS Central America PCGS slabs or the current SS Republic NGC slabs. >>

That sounds like me collecting the exact same dollar coins in different RCM holders.

trozau · July 14, 2004 8:30AM

Got pricing on the PR69's. Just the £5 alone is more than the BRM issue price for the 4 piece set. I guess I won't be buying this one unless they come to the secondary market at a more reasonable price.

P.S. - Lost my Pop 1/0 on the 1991 £5 & £2 (now 22/0 & 11/0).

drjules · July 14, 2004 8:38AM

Ouch

and

Ouch

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