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Valued Member
United States
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@1cent just watch out for red spots. my 1oz Gold queens beast started blowing up with red spots and it started off as a 1 very small red micro dot than 7 months boom. I think the queens beast is just cursed!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Seriously, red spots on the gold beasts? Maybe you're right about them being cursed. I didn't even realize that the gold coins had potential issues!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
589 Posts |
I have one of each of the 2oz silver queens beast coins thus far. I absolutely love this series.
I keep my coins in air tites and I have yet to see milk spotting on any of them. Could it be where they are being stored? Maybe to much humidity.
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Valued Member
United States
142 Posts |
They are stored exactly the same as all my other silver and the queens beast, RCM birdsof prey, britainias And even some silver eagles from 2016 all form milk spots airtite or not. I think moisture might accelerate the process of milk spots but wint prevent them. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I like these, may have pick one up.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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My Beasts are stored in a temperature/humidity controlled environment, humidity should not be an issue. Just like Liquidsilver above, some of my Maples, Eagles, Britannias, Kangaroos, and other coins are developing spots (Kangaroos being the worst of all). None of the Philharmonics or Libertads have a spot anywhere on them. In the pictures below, you can see a spot forming at the bottom on the shield on the Griffin, and two massive blotches on the obverse of the Lion. The Red Dragon 2 oz doesn't have a single spot on it. At the end of the day they are all just bullion coins, but it's still disappointing.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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And this is the obverse of the Lion...  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
589 Posts |
So its the quality of the silver then?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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From another forum (intended for the silver maple, but no doubt applicable to other coins):
"The white stains (or "milk spots") result from the planchet (flan) cleaning and preparation process. Some Silver Maple Leaf coins have them (SMLs), some do not.
This is the Mint's official position: The coins are bullion coins. They are not collector coins. They are sold as one ounce of silver. The Mint knows that there is a problem. The problem has existed since 1988, when the SML coin was first introduced. The Mint says that there is nothing that they can do about the problem."
It has supposedly been proven that silver chloride crystals develop the surface of the coin as a result of the remnants of the cleaning process.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1911 Posts |
Just got an email today that the 2oz Unicorn of Scotland is available for pre-sale at BGASC coming out 10/2. Different order than what I read before, but excited for the next one! I already ordered 10 capsules for them all.
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United Kingdom
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Interesting. The mint schedule I have saved lists the fourth coin of the series as the White Greyhound of Richmond, release date Sep. 2017. It lists the Unicorn of Scotland as the tenth coin of the series, release date September 2020. The proof 1 oz. silver Unicorn coin that's already been released has a 2017 date.
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New Member
United States
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I love these coins. I buy and sell a number of the bullion types. The dragon one seems the most popular. I am intrigued by those ones that are colored black and then gilded gold on the relief. Anyone know more about this process and anything I should be concerned about before purchasing?
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United States
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Valued Member
Canada
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I only have Lion, griffin, and dragon. May be I will buy the bull, but not the unicorn.
IMO, Griffin is the best looking design.
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