Buying Royal Mint coins at face value on your credit card

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• Polo says:

  4 May4 May 07:45

  Have I got up too early?

  Purchase limit of 4 per coin and there’s 25 coins = 100 coins

  100 x £0.50 = £50 (not £25)

  • Rob says:

    4 May4 May 17:16

    Er, yes.

    Wrote this one quickly as we headed out the door for the long weekend ….

• Tom says:

  4 May4 May 08:08

  Is anyone else able to get the free delivery code to take off the postage charges?
  There are 28 coins, so one set = £14, and therefore 4 sets would be £56.

  • Tom says:

    4 May4 May 08:21

    Looks like the free delivery code doesn’t work on the 50p coins reduced to 50p
    See this twitter exchange with Royal Mint
    Search for “OLAFPP royal mint twitter”

    If the free delivery code doesn’t work the delivery charge works out at a little over 5% on a £56 spend

    • Squillion says:

      4 May4 May 08:31

      Worked fine for me. Saw the twitter convo but OP probably screwed up. The free delivery code was indeed a bit of a bguger but if you put it in right at then end it should be fine. I had to re-enter it a couple of times as the site was clunky but it worked x2. There are probably other free delivery codes out there if you google it.

      • Mr Bridge says:

        14 May14 May 12:34

        code expired in feb

• Roger says:

  4 May4 May 08:09

  Interesting offer.

  No Avios for me, though. In Olympic style, only Visa cards are accepted for payment. I guess I could earn some Hilton points, though.

  • Roger says:

    4 May4 May 08:11

    Sorry, wrong! Visa AND MasterCards accepted, so I can use my bmi MC.

• Robin says:

  4 May4 May 08:19

  And AMEX too but I have some 3V cards to use LOL
  But where do we enter the free delivery code??

• Squillion says:

  4 May4 May 08:21

  I think there are 28 different coins (sorry Raffles, wrong info from me!) as I got one lot of 60 and one lot of 48 – and there’s a coin that costs £1.50 so I didn’t buy that. So £54 in total. You could be canny and get exactly £25 on 3V I guess 😉

  ISTR that I bought 2 lots as the postage goes up (and isn’t free) after a certain weight.

  Oh – and I paid for something else (a big order that I cancelled) on Amex, I think I managed it by putting in USA as my country (they’re allowed the Amex option) then switching address later. Give it a try maybe.

  Coins arrived after about 3 days.

• dlwcmotd says:

  4 May4 May 08:30

  looks like we broke the royal mint website?

  • Squillion says:

    4 May4 May 08:32

    It’s dead clunky. I just had 4 windows going at a time to speed things up.

• dlwcmotd says:

  4 May4 May 08:59

  you don’t get it on coins sold at their legal tender value (i.e. 50p face value coin sold at 50p)… worth clicking through anyway though just in case 🙂

  • Neil Spellings says:

    4 May4 May 09:05

    Ah well. Was worth a try!

    Still not managed to get the free delivery code to work though, tried about 15 times on Step 4 of the checkout process. Postage always shows at £3

• Roger says:

  4 May4 May 09:06

  Here’s a curiosity. I couldn’t get OLAFPP to work for free p&p so I went on to register, thinking I might be able to insert the code later.

  Anyway, I checked my order and it somehow defaulted to an Afghanistan destination! What’s more, each 50p price became 42p. Postage was £12.50 on a bulk order, so the total was less than was being asked for UK destinations @ 50p per coin + £5.

  Oh yes, each line was marked ‘not available for Afghanistan’. Clunky, or what?

  I don’t know if there is any mileage in gifting coins to family or friends outside the UK.

  OLAFPP still not working for me.

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