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New Zealand Mint Silver Taku/Nieu Turtles?

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 Posted 04/27/2016  10:22 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add greenprint to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Anyone collect them or have any? I just wanna know what people think of em.
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Never heard of them. Sounds very interesting though.
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Anyone collect them or have any? I just wanna know what people think of em.


they are nice coins, in the 2011-2012 the design was the best. It called "Fiju Taku" (now the name changed)

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It's a young set that goes back to 2010 and all can be grabbed pretty cheap compared to modern day 2016 coin. I thought about grabbing a couple to see if I could complete the set. I wonder if the series will go on for a long time. Do you think it will continue to go on?
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You can get the 1oz issued from 2011 onward from JMB pretty cheaply:
http://www.jmbullion.com/search/?q=taku&x=0&y=0
http://www.jmbullion.com/search/?q=turtle&x=0&y=0
The 2010 is a tad expensive, but I saw the odd one popping up on ebay for <$40. Patience...

There are also 1/2oz, 2oz (true Piedfort coins), and 5oz versions, but not for all years. It's difficult to obtain mintage figures for prior years. Hence, paying a steep premium for any of these may not be justified.
For bullion investment purposes, I'd recommend sticking to the 1oz and 2oz releases.

I like the 5oz though as the size does the design more justice - the 2016 is still available for a halfway decent premium (comes in capsule):
http://www.apmex.com/product/97109/...ll-turtle-bu
I paid $100.05 on Apr01 - which seems like a joke now. ;)
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did you complete the set?
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Only the 1oz set. The rest are too difficult to get hold of and come with a huge premium which is not justified.
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Do you know if the gold glided ones are released by the mint or if some third part takes a legitimate silver taku and gold glides them? Do you have any of the gold glided ones?

Yeah I will haunt ebay to try and get a 5 oz one if I can get one close to around 100 110 or so. Paying close to 150 for 5 ounces when silver is just under 18 an ounce is unjustified.
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The gilded ones were issued by the New Zealand Mint and come in nice packaging. But these are numismatic and cost a lot more.
There was one issued with just the Taku and another one with a baby Taku as well - all gilded.
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yeah I think there's

2010 1 oz silver taku gold glided
http://www.apmex.com/product/60970/...in-water-box

2012 1 oz silver doulbe taku gold glided
http://www.apmex.com/product/72981/...in-water-box

2014 1 oz silver taku gold glided
http://www.apmex.com/product/83132/...le-bu-gilded

however I tried contact us on the NZ mint site and got a reply that they weren't minted by the NZ mint so I wonder if someone else created them =( not sure though.
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Do you think the series is doing well or not?
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Anybody? Have the 2014 and 2015 5 oz and half ounces they can sell to me
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