So, here we have the gold proof britannia...........Fortieth ounce coin. As you can imagine the weight does put a strain on the old biceps trying to lift these dense metal masterpieces, i had to be careful photographing these as i could hear the table creaking under the strain but we surived the dangers to bring you this glorious feast for your gold loving eyeballs..
40th of an ounce i hear you say, yes these coins are small, those coins are far away! But personally i love them, the smallest gold proof coin from the Royal Mint and i can imagine them being little buggers to mint. But i had to stop collecting them sadly due to Royal Mint greed, they were £50 when first released, the 2014 gorgeous Jody Clark design had a mintage of 9,650 then the 2015 went down to 7,500 and there was a further reduction of mintage in 2016 which was 2,250 but the price of these had started to creep up. The poorly designed 2017 has a mintage of 1,500 but the price has risen to a ridiculous £70 putting Royal Mints value of gold at £2,800 an ounce and made these coins unappealing to a stacker with a few remaining brain cells, no really there are still a few knocking about up there.
Ahhh i hear you cry, arn't they nice? but are they worth £70 each? at £50 it was borderline but they were nice enough to pick up. So lets get the little mothers under a loupe and do an extreme close up...
2014
MINTAGE: 9650
2015
MINTAGE: 7,500
2016
MINTAGE 2,250
Well another 37 of these bad boys and i would have a full ounce of midget coins that are worth half what they cost which is a bargain at twice the price divided by 40, times 2 to the power of 4 minus 11 multiplied by an inappropriate hypotenuse which equals X, so what is Y? Bloody maths!