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Congratulations!
Your entry into the Royal Australian Mint’s 2013 $25 Gold Kangaroo at Sunset Ballot was selected in the draw held on Friday 30Th November 2012 at 4pm. Once we conduct the final eligibility check we will be processing your order and dispatching the coins as quickly as possible. This will take place over the next two weeks.
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Congrats
Mark and I both got that email, now I'm not so sure it should be congratulations as now we have to pay for 2. It's an expensive time of year.
One on eBay right now for $1660.
What was issue price on these?
$650
As nobody from the forum took up my offer to buy the coin if I was successful, I didn't bother to submit my ballot.
Congratulations to those that did and were successful.
All one has to do now is to find the money to pay for the darn thing(s).
I also got the email.
Looking forward to receiving the coin.
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shame they dont let you pay them off, would be my only chance to go in the ballot.
Quote from: 'Russ e' pid='4376' dateline='1354750198'shame they dont let you pay them off, would be my only chance to go in the ballot.
:idea: You know what, I think there is a way to pay it off if you win one in the ballot. I no longer have my entry form, but I think there is something like lay-by. Anyone got a form to check this out?
Bump will do a scan of ballot form
(http://justcoinpage.webs.com/photos/undefined/ballot%20scan.jpg)
Anyone know if it was fully subscribed?
Ah, so they can't be paid off. I've obviously been dreaming. :angel: Thanks AC. :winkextra:
It's interesting to look at the secondary marked for the Roo at Sunset coin for each year. Compare what the 2007 issue gets against the 2012 or even the 2011 coins. I suspect there will be little or no resale benefit on the 2013 coin, especially given the rather outrageous issue price increase in the last 2 years. This might be the last hurrah for this coin before it turns it into yet another "meh" issue on the part of the RAM. Shame, because it's a pretty design.
I just received this from the RAM:
Thank you for ordering from the Royal Australian Mint.
Please find attached your tax invoice which we recommend you retain for your records.
Phew! So no dramas with my 2013 $25 Gold Kangaroo order. :yahoo: :angel:
Just as a matter of interest did anyone put in a ballot application who DIDN'T get a coin? Everyone I know got one.
Received advice today that coin has been posted. :yahoo:
Quote from: 'Nevol' pid='4657' dateline='1355455244'Received advice today that coin has been posted. :yahoo:
So did I.
Cannot wait to see it, but as I am away, will have to wait.
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Just picked this up from the PO. Taken through the capsule, so a bit of reflection, a bit fuzzy, plus a thread on the 'A' of dollars, plus dozens of specks of dust or some other foreign material in the Obv side. :ireful:
$25 2013 Duo Kangaroo at Sunset
(http://i46.tinypic.com/v2xxf4.jpg)
$25 2013 Obv K'roo at Sunset thread on A
(http://i49.tinypic.com/2vcxlwg.jpg)
My son thinks it's a bit of plastic from the capsule and he managed to snap an image of it with a reflection in the coin, so it's ever so slightly above the surface of the coin.
$25 2013 Obv K'roo at Sunset thread v3
(http://i48.tinypic.com/4rq252.jpg)
He zoomed in on it at 400 x magnification and it's definitely not fibrous, so plastic makes sense.
(http://i50.tinypic.com/2lc4ux2.jpg)
You sending it back?
I would send it back
I see one of these has sold on Ebay at just under $800. Pretty thin profit after ebay fees and paypal fees.
Quote from: 'purplepennyhunter' pid='4765' dateline='1355794992'You sending it back?
I'll try ringing them & see what their response is.
Contacted RAM, spoke to Joel, the coin is going back and they will replace it. I was given their Reply Paid address, so apart from time, it's not costing me anything.