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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2041736, member: 71234&quot;]<i>In Britain, the Britannia design is beloved, and now it is on a Silver coin, so it will have that going for it. </i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not that one, I&#039;d say.Like John Holmes, she is way over helmeted, and the design is boringly modern.</p><p><br /></p><p>Usual practice here with patient collectors is to leave buying new to the mug punters, pretty well everything turns up on the resale market within a few years, at a much lower price. I&#039;d expect much nearer bullion value quite soon.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I go to specialist coin auctions there are usually stacks of modern stuff, available at around bullion value for the usual proofs, a bit over for piedfort proofs.</p><p>There is a market for modern stuff (anything after 1970) but with over a thousand years of fairly coherent coin issuing history, moderns are a minority interest.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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