Royal Mint - Face Value - Legal Tender Coins - Or Not

I can understand why victims should be so peeved.
An exercise in cynical marketing, that has gone wrong.

As many of you may have guessed, I don't like being marketed to, with Mint product.

If good quality NCLT interests you, stay in the aftermarket, where you are free to do your own calmly considered price research, at your own pace.

As I said on another coin forum where this was posted, this is another example of scammers breaking things for the rest of us - the "Scammers" in this case being the people who are using the Mint to scam frequent flyer miles off the credit card companies. Though, to be fair, The Royal Mint should never have accepted credit card payments for them.

As for the legal tender definitions, it hasn't changed at all. The only thing that has changed is the Mint actually issuing advice to Banks on what they should or shouldn't do. But the Mint is really just telling the banks something they should already have known: that they aren't legally obliged to accept any form of currency as a deposit.

From a legal standpoint, once a legal tender coin has been issued, it's none of the Mint's business what we do with them. It's the Government's business, since the coins belong to the government, not the Mint. And the British government's legal tender laws have not changed, nor have any new changes been proposed. The Royal Mint's FAQ page on the subject still says that these bullion coins are "legal tender for any amount".