Australia 1914-S sovereign
This specimen was lot 2433 in the Eliasberg sale, where it sold for $483. The catalog description[1] noted, "1914 S sovereign. Sydney mint. MS-66 (NGC). Types as above. Lustrous light yellow gold." This type was struck 1911-28 at the Sydney, Melbourne and Perth mints. It is identical to the ordinary British sovereign in every respect except for the addition of a mintmark, which will be found buried in the rock below the dragon on the reverse. A slightly modified type (KM 32) was struck 1929 to 1931, when gold coinage ceased altogether. The Sydney mint was opened in 1855 to strike the gold found in Australia and was not employed to strike ordinary circulation coinage until 1920.
Recorded mintage: 1,774,000.
Specification: 7.99 g, 0.917 fine gold, .2354 troy oz AGW, designed by Bertram MacKennal; this specimen: 7.98 grams, 22.20 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: Fr-38, KM 29.
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- Pitt, Michael, Renniks Australian Coin and Banknote Values, 32nd Edition, Matraville, New South Wales, Australia: Renniks Publications, 2023.
- Pitt, Michael, Renniks Australian Coin and Banknote Values, 32nd Edition, Matraville, New South Wales, Australia: Renniks Publications, 2023.
- [1]Kraljevich, John, John Pack, Elizabeth O. Piper and Frank Van Valen, The Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr., Collection of World Gold Coins and Medals, Wolfboro, NH: American Numismatic Rarities, 2005.
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- 1911-S sovereign
- 1911 sixpence
- 1914 half penny
- 1914-H half penny
- 1914 penny
- 1914 threepence
- 1914 sixpence
- 1914 shilling
- 1914 florin
- 1914-H florin
- 1914-S half sovereign
- 1914-M sovereign
- 1914-P sovereign
- 1915-H shilling
- Canada 1914-C sovereign
- India 1918-I sovereign
- 1917-P sovereign
- Coins and currency dated 1914
- other specimens in The Eliasberg Collection
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