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<p>[QUOTE="robp, post: 24904273, member: 96746"]The rarity of some pieces may be helpful in the future, given the pyx trial requires a fixed amount of output to be set aside. If you only have a low mintage allowing for one or two pieces in the trial, it has to be rare. Historically, sometimes the mintage was too low to reach the minimum amount for a valid trial.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the case of those listed on ebay, the 2019 £100 gold one ounce Britannia was only issued in sets and had a mintage of 150. With this being 1 of 6 pieces in the trial, clearly one piece in 25 was set aside, which puts things in perspective.</p><p><br /></p><p>And if they did the job right, at least one should have been melted and assayed. But I suspect marketing might have had something to say about that.............[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="robp, post: 24904273, member: 96746"]The rarity of some pieces may be helpful in the future, given the pyx trial requires a fixed amount of output to be set aside. If you only have a low mintage allowing for one or two pieces in the trial, it has to be rare. Historically, sometimes the mintage was too low to reach the minimum amount for a valid trial. In the case of those listed on ebay, the 2019 £100 gold one ounce Britannia was only issued in sets and had a mintage of 150. With this being 1 of 6 pieces in the trial, clearly one piece in 25 was set aside, which puts things in perspective. And if they did the job right, at least one should have been melted and assayed. But I suspect marketing might have had something to say about that.............[/QUOTE]
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