Australia 1927-P sovereign
This specimen was lot 33535 in Heritage sale 3067 (Long Beach, September 2018), where it sold for $432. The catalog description[1] noted, "Australia: George V gold Sovereign 1927-P MS62 NGC, Perth mint. Brandishing a desirable cartwheel bloom and relatively clean fields for the technical designation." This type was struck 1911-28 at the Sydney, Melbourne and Perth mints. The Perth mint, which produced the specimen shown here, was used mostly to strike sovereigns. It issued other denominations only sporadically before it closed in 1964. The Australian sovereign 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. As British issues effectively ceased after 1916, Australian sovereigns of George V are quite a bit more common. A slightly modified type (KM 32) was struck 1929 to 1931, when gold coinage ceased altogether. The Perth mint was the only producer of sovereigns in 1927.
Recorded mintage: 1,383,000.
Specification: 7.99 g, 0.917 fine gold, 0.235 troy oz AGW.
Catalog reference: S.4001; Fr-40; KM 29.
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- Pitt, Michael, Renniks Australian Coin and Banknote Values, 32nd Edition, Matraville, New South Wales, Australia: Renniks Publications, 2023.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
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- [1]Cristiano Bierrenbach, Warren Tucker and Sam Spiegel, 2018 September 6-11 Long Beach Expo World Coins & Ancient Coins Signature Auction #3067, Dallas: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2018.
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