Posted 03/10/2014 9:13 pm
These replicas are commissioned and sold by Westminster Collection, a notorious British-based coin mass-marketing company. If the current price which other "Museum Collection" replicas are selling for on the Westminster website are any indication, then the poor sucker who originally bought it from Westminster would have paid an awful lot more than £12.51 for it. They're currently selling plated-brass replicas for £30 each on a one-replica-a-month plan.
If you've got it in hand, I'd suggest the most direct approach to discovering the truth is to weigh it yourself. Personally, I wouldn't trust a Westminster "certificate of authenticity" to be error-free. Assuming they're not outright lying about the silver content (and Westminster are usually careful not to do or say anything they could be sued for), then the coin is at least worth silver content. Personally, I wouldn't pay more than whatever that happened to be, but then I don't collect replicas.
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The coin is great and was sold as 20.08g. The odd thing is the certificate I have says 28.8g under the specifications for it?
The coin is great and was sold as 20.08g. The odd thing is the certificate I have says 28.8g under the specifications for it?
If you've got it in hand, I'd suggest the most direct approach to discovering the truth is to weigh it yourself. Personally, I wouldn't trust a Westminster "certificate of authenticity" to be error-free. Assuming they're not outright lying about the silver content (and Westminster are usually careful not to do or say anything they could be sued for), then the coin is at least worth silver content. Personally, I wouldn't pay more than whatever that happened to be, but then I don't collect replicas.
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