Anyone Else Collecting Britannias?

Whether they changed the diameter or the thickness, I guess they had to change something. It seems they decided to keep the thickness at 3 mm and decreased the diameter from 40 to 38.61 mm making these a little thinner and a little wider than a maple leaf. I'm guessing you'll have to stick these in a 39 mm airtite then.

I understand the reason for the change. I just wish they had changed thickness instead. There ssems to be a lot more .999 in the 40mm form factor.

I have two (2000 & 2003), I would considered that a collection.

u guys doing proofs at all by chance?

Chalk up a couple more;

2013 Lunar Privy-edge-marked silver Britannias now available exclusively through Merit. Minimum order of $1500, which works out to almost two tubes at about $40 per coin @ that level.
These come in sealed tubes with raised edge privy snakes, which are intended to be anti-counterfeiting features. I'm all in favor of anti-counterfeiting measures and these are genuinely
good ones and will continue to be so for as long as it takes the counterfeiters to catch up -- 90 or 120 days?

I've collected the entire 1998-2014 series of silver bullion Britannias and I do like them a lot, but this Merit exclusive $1500 minimum order @ about $40/coin is just plain obnoxious.

Speaking for myself, Merit can keep their lunar Brits, their attitude and their minimum order threshold, too. Nonetheless, I suspect these will probably flip for $60 on ebay.

I can already hear the dialog when somebody tries to sell my LCS guy a lunar edge-marked Brit... "Yeah, right, sure thing. Here's spot plus $4 and there's the door. Take yer pick."

Edit: If anybody remembers the old newspaper comic strip "B.C." by Johnny Hart, the edge-marked lunar snake on these coins is VERY reminiscent of the snake in that comic that
the character named "Fat Broad" used to regularly pulverize with her club. It's a real "blast from the past!"

have they solved the quality issues they had with original 2013 release?