Recent content by badon

I think we need a better, more neutral terminology. We can call the "original" series "Chang Huan's series", and the "fork series" we can call "Hou Jiqiang's series". Maybe there are some other ideas of how we can classify the 2 branches of the Shenyang Mint's lunar pandas.

Please do. I'm looking forward to seeing them.

Yes, you are right. It's an error. I understand it's 5 kg. It's just habit to type "1 kg" because that's usually the only kilogram size to talk about.

I love the details on the 5 kg silver version. Is that the same artist? I wish they had put details like that into the lunar panda series. The Shenyang Mint's lunar panda series is really getting exciting now! 1 kg has an 888 mintage! Impressive that they plan to sell so many of the 1 kg size...

China 2017 62 g (2 oz) silver lunar rooster panda by Chang Huan, mintage 499, and mintage 99 for the matte antiqued version.

This is one of the most important articles I have written in the last 2 years: 2017 fiat pandas lost $350 million market share - Where will that money go next? The ultra-short version is the announced 2017 panda mintages appear to have increased, but in reality, the amount of metal they're...

andrewlee10, it might be better to offer a non-specific discount to forum members. dragonzeng168 (new, ending, sold) says he will give "a small discount" to Coin Compendium Forum (CCF) members, which leaves him some room to adjust the discount, depending on profit margins. For big gold, there is...

This whole thing looks very sad in my eyes. I know both of these people, and I never would have expected them to have any kind of conflict at all, let alone among their friends (us). That said, I can understand the frustration and urgency on both sides - dare I say it, adrenaline even. We're...

Altima, where does this quote come from?: "Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything."

Why are people buying silver? Is it because it fiat is great and silver with literally meaningless fiat numbers on it is greater? No, it's because people don't trust fiat. That's the ONLY reason anybody cares about shiny metal blocks. I'm amazed at how fast people forget that fact, even while...

I seem to remember posting somewhere that I believed the 2016 30 g silver pandas were deliberately priced cheaper to ensure the success of the debased substandard weight. I'm skeptical it will be sustainable against competition that has full standard 1 oz (31.1 g) weights, including competitors...

Here is a mockup of all the sizes of gold Nanjing pandas, to scale: Re: Want a Nanjing 2016 gold panda? What should the weight, price, and mintage be? Is there a way to attach images to posts?

Why guess when you can evaluate the fundamentals? Everyone knows the first year of a series gets a popularity bonus. This is for many reasons, but the biggest one is because collectors want the coins that made history. The main-series of fiat 2016 30 g silver pandas marked one of the biggest and...

Mentioned: Re: Want a Nanjing 2016 gold panda? What should the weight, price, and mintage be?

3 grams is slightly smaller than 1/10 oz. I think the Nanjing mint's objective is to beat the substandard weights of the main series of debased fiat pandas. That would make the 1/10 oz size preferable. If people want it to mirror the metric weigths of the tmain series of fiat pandas, that can be...