Irish Euro Gold and Silver Commemorative coins

signostic · 18-01-2017 2:10am

DMcL1971 wrote: »

The Central Bank website is now showing the uncirculated coin set for this year. It is the third in the 'An Island Nation' series and features 'Irish Lighthouses and Irish Coast Guard'. Issue limit will be 8,000. There is no price or issue date listed.

Only here will the 2017 1 cent coin and 2017 2 cent coin can be got

DMcL1971 · 18-01-2017 9:11am

signostic wrote: »

Only here will the 2017 1 cent coin and 2017 2 cent coin can be got

There should also be the coin fair sets which will be cheaper.

Anthony O Brien · 20-01-2017 3:44am

DMcL1971 wrote: »

There should also be the coin fair sets which will be cheaper.

Does anyone know how many 1 cent and 2 cent coins were minted last year?

DMcL1971 · 16-02-2017 2:30pm

I got a letter from the Central Bank this morning, stating that there had been complaints about the quality of the Eileen Gray coins and encouraging anyone who was not happy, to contact them. They have also updated their website with a notice a shown below.

Update to customers that purchased the 2016 €10 Silver Proof Eileen Gray commemorative coin

The Central Bank has received some limited customer feedback about the condition of this commemorative coin received. If you have any concerns about the quality or condition of the coin you received, please contact us on 1890 777 777 between 09:00 and 18:00 or email us at coinsets@centralbank.ie. The Central Bank of Ireland is committed to the highest standards of quality and we take customer feedback very seriously. While we have contacted the majority of our customers, there are a limited number of customers for whom we do not have contact details. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Spocker · 16-02-2017 4:31pm

DMcL1971 wrote: »

I got a letter from the Central Bank this morning, stating that there had been complaints about the quality of the Eileen Gray coins and encouraging anyone who was not happy, to contact them. They have also updated their website with a notice a shown below.

Update to customers that purchased the 2016 €10 Silver Proof Eileen Gray commemorative coin

The Central Bank has received some limited customer feedback about the condition of this commemorative coin received. If you have any concerns about the quality or condition of the coin you received, please contact us on 1890 777 777 between 09:00 and 18:00 or email us at coinsets@centralbank.ie. The Central Bank of Ireland is committed to the highest standards of quality and we take customer feedback very seriously. While we have contacted the majority of our customers, there are a limited number of customers for whom we do not have contact details. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Haven't gotten that letter yet, but thats not the first time this has happened. I do appreciate the coins are the output of an automated manufacturing process, but to effectively issue a "full recall" is a black mark on their quality control process

musiknonstop · 16-02-2017 6:56pm

I got the letter in the post today. My coin looks fine as far I can tell. Just heard about it on Newstalk as well.

Spocker wrote: »

Haven't gotten that letter yet, but thats not the first time this has happened. I do appreciate the coins are the output of an automated manufacturing process, but to effectively issue a "full recall" is a black mark on their quality control process

17-02-2017 2:46pm

musiknonstop wrote: »

I got the letter in the post today. My coin looks fine as far I can tell. Just heard about it on Newstalk as well.

Who were the manufacturers? I didn't buy this one, but the quality of several coins in the last few years had been poor, the Holland submarine comes to mind.

The increased cost, poor quality and uninteresting subject matter has put me off buying many of the new issues.

DMcL1971 · 17-02-2017 2:58pm

Spocker · 17-02-2017 4:11pm

DMcL1971 wrote: »

The mints are listed below. Both Eileen Gray and the Holland coin were made by Pobjoy Mint. I seem to remember a few complaints about the Lockout coin which was also Pobjoy mint.

You should add those details to post #1, handy place to find all the details

Spocker · 24-04-2017 11:42am

Anyone hear of a date yet for the 2017 Mint Set (Irish Lighthouses and Irish Coast Guard)?

Blade · 24-04-2017 7:57pm

Spocker wrote: »

Anyone hear of a date yet for the 2017 Mint Set (Irish Lighthouses and Irish Coast Guard)?

I haven't heard anything yet but I wasn't at the one day fair in the RDS yesterday (I forgot to post about that incidentally). I heard before hand though that the CB would be there but weren't selling anything at all. Don't know what happened in the end.

DMcL1971 · 27-06-2017 5:21pm

The 2017 annual mint set is going on sale in July, only 7 months late!
In Summer there will be a 15 Euro Sir Charles Algernon Parsons coin.
In Autumn there will be a 10 Euro Ha’penny Bridge coin.

I can't see there being much interest in any these and I am not in the slightest bit excited about them. Normally I buy each coin as it is released but now I think I will just wait until the end of the year and then order them in all one go in order to save on postage.

Blade · 27-06-2017 5:31pm

€29.00 for the 2017 set, but there may not be any lose sets issued this year.

Blade · 24-08-2017 5:29pm

The new Charles A. Parsons coin will be available from the 1st Sept. Also the Central Bank's new collector site is live: www.collectorcoins.ie

Spocker · 24-08-2017 6:31pm

Blade wrote: »

Also the Central Bank's new collector site is live: www.collectorcoins.ie

At last!

The need to change their email name to be something a bit more imaginative though!

Spocker · 05-10-2017 11:24am

Ha’penny Proof announced today:

Central Bank wrote:

The Central Bank of Ireland’s 2017 €10 Silver Proof Ha’penny Coin will be available to order from 5 October 2017. This coin is part of the European Silver Programme. The cost of the coin is €60.

musiknonstop · 05-10-2017 1:55pm

That's a very nice coin but at €60 + €6.75 P+P it's expensive.

Thanos · 05-10-2017 2:24pm

A bit expensive........ I got the second in the series of the inventor run at 44 euro and now the last one is 60 euro, that is some increase in price!!!
That's over a third increase. Has silver gone up that much in price?

DMcL1971 · 05-10-2017 2:41pm

Thanos wrote: »

A bit expensive........ I got the second in the series of the inventor run at 44 euro and now the last one is 60 euro, that is some increase in price!!!
That's over a third increase. Has silver gone up that much in price?

The Ernest Walton coin was released on 13/01/2015 when silver was 14.56 Euro per ounce. Today it is 14.23. So almost no change in price put the coin costs have gone up from 44 to 60.

The actual bullion value for one of these coins is about 12 Euro. So the Central Bank are making a great profit even considering the minting and packaging cost. In terms of bullion value all the coins they have produced are completely worthless. They only have a collectible value and even then only if they became extremely rare or desirable for some reason. Which almost never happens.

fritzelly · 06-10-2017 9:24pm

Will be passing on this, even tho I would have like to have got it, but at €60 it's way overpriced
Is the small run supposed to increase interest?

10-10-2017 4:18pm

fritzelly wrote: »

Will be passing on this, even tho I would have like to have got it, but at €60 it's way overpriced
Is the small run supposed to increase interest?

Nice coin, one of the nicest ones in a while, but 60e plus postage seems very expensive.
I think the Central Bank is being greedy with the price charged, that and poorly produced coins with obscure subject matter means that sales of coins must be declining significantly.

DMcL1971 · 10-10-2017 10:43pm

I am on the Central Bank mailing list but didn't receive an E-Mail about this new coin. Did other people get one?

sceach16 · 10-10-2017 11:45pm

DMcL1971 wrote: »

I am on the Central Bank mailing list but didn't receive an E-Mail about this new coin. Did other people get one?

I didn't either.

pawrick · 11-10-2017 12:13am

sceach16 wrote: »

I didn't either.

the same, only spotted it browsing here

DMcL1971 · 11-10-2017 12:16am

Well that seems typical of their lack of efficiency. You'd think they don't want anyone to buy them.

Spocker · 11-10-2017 8:44am

DMcL1971 wrote: »

I am on the Central Bank mailing list but didn't receive an E-Mail about this new coin. Did other people get one?

Yes, I got it from 'coinsetsnews@centralbank.ie' on the 5th Oct

DMcL1971 · 12-10-2017 10:43am

I'll drop them an E-Mail today to ask why only some of us seem to have been notified.

DMcL1971 · 12-10-2017 8:29pm

Apparently they are no longer E-Mailing out the newsletter to people who were on their mailing list.

If you want to receive it in future, you have to go to the new collector coin site http://www.collectorcoins.ie/, create an account, confirm the account, go back into your profile and chose the option to receive the newsletter.

Spocker · 12-10-2017 11:51pm

DMcL1971 wrote: »

Apparently they are no longer E-Mailing out the newsletter to people who were on their mailing list.

If you want to receive it in future, you have to go to the new collector coin site http://www.collectorcoins.ie/, create an account, confirm the account, go back into your profile and chose the option to receive the newsletter.

Ah, I would likely have done that when creating my profile alright

sceach16 · 13-10-2017 12:22pm

DMcL1971 wrote: »

I'll drop them an E-Mail today to ask why only some of us seem to have been notified.

You did well ! They have just sent a reminder to subscribers about the ongoing arrangements.

Thanks to coinsets and to you.

Irish Euro Gold and Silver Commemorative coins

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