Donald Duck 80th Anniversary Coins Now released at New Zealand Mint

The new Donald Duck 80th Anniversary Coins have just gone live at NZ mint.

http://www.nzmint.com/coins/shop-online/disney-80th-anniversary-donald-duck-gift-coin

 

Damn, I've always loved both Donald and Daffy. I may get suckered into this one.

 

Gold sold out in about 8 minutes i was able to get one Gold and 10 Silver

 

Source:http://agaunews.com/?p=12047

I like it and the gold seems to be flying again. Seems that 1/4oz is the sweet spot.

 

Will this be on Perth Mint site today??

 

Gold and Silver both available at Downies now.

 

Looks like over $1,000.00 in U.S. Money... wow

 

Also available at Direct Coins
http://www.directcoins.com.au/2014-anniversary-of-donald-duck-1-4oz-gold-proof-coin.html


Both with a limit of 1 per customer, exactly what NZ Mint should have done.

 

Thanks for the info db23

 

8:10 pm approx... Donald duck sold out at Downies...

 

The gold Donald..... 8:10pm est.. USA Wed. 6-25-2014

 

weird... seems to be available again...

 

WOW... A fight to the finish on Perth Mint site... I grabbed one for $662.35 US funds... Not bad

 

If you constantly try on Perth, You may have a shot. I just picked up another gold one and few silvers... Good luck..

 

My mistake... I said $775.00 equals over $1,000.00 in US $$.
It equals about $725.00 or so..

 

Seems like Downies is the only one charging GST even to buyers outside of Australia.

Perth's site doesn't charge GST to people in the US and Direct Coins removes it once you enter a non-Australia shipping address. Also gotta love the fact that Downies doesn't do a Forex conversion on their site, I'm sure they'd much prefer to sell them all overseas on their site as they'd make more money that way.

 

The Downies site was removing GST at the end of checkout as well for non Australian buyers. At least for us Canadians anyways...I found it funny that Downies charges you the same amount in USD if you have a US shipping address, but everyone else gets charged that $ amount in AUD. Effectively, Americans pay an almost 10% extra when shopping at Downies.

 

I emailed them and asked about this and was told they were implementing a new platform soon and everyone would just be charged AUD then. Seriously? How hard is it for them to just remove USD from being accepted on the current platform? They aren't stupid, they know they are making that extra 10% or so on every sale to someone in the US. It couldn't take their web people more than 5 minutes to fix that and if it does they should fire them and get new web people.

This and the free shipping is why I waited and ordered a few from Perth Mint.

 

I keep going to the checkout... then bailing on purchasing the Donald Duck 1oz Silver. I just don't know if 80 is worth it when spot is sitting at 12 and my main aim was to build up a stock of physical metal, rather than loads of huge premium coins...

Can anyone relate to this and help?

 

A mix is good. Bullion coins and a selection of carefully chosen numismatics is good for me.