Well nice coin, not expensive and attractive. This version may have been aftermarket “prepped”. Does anyone have more information?
No never heard of it till right now, had to look it up! Yours says 'multi metal plated', not sure I like that, what's that about? Oh, now I see, your question exactly! https://www.bullionbypost.com/gold-coins/isle-man-noble/1oz-gold-isle-man-noble/
Yes, a strange bit of metalwork there. However it looks pleasant enough and certainly was not particularly costly.
Handsome coin. Maybe the gilt job was an aftermarket thing, but it's handsome enough, like you said, and as long as you didn't pay a whole lot more than the spot silver price, why not, right?
A "gold" gold noble is above 3300 USD, so this larger with good plating on silver at a tiny fraction of the price. I have a couple of platinum nobles and they look alright but honestly as platinum is not all that silvery are not that exciting....
The following link gives info about IOM nobles for 2017 except for info on any plating. Cal https://www.gov.im/media/1374710/0717-currency-noble-coin-determination.pdf
Me neither, but I expect if that gilt variant was a mint product, there would be more information about it online; either from the mint itself, or Numista, or whatever. So I strongly suspect it’s aftermarket. Nice, though.
Agreed, and the writing on the "COA" does not indicate mint product. But it is very attractive and A LOT CHEAPER THAN THE ACTUAL GOLD NOBLE!
