Great Britain 1818 1/2 sovereign

Heritage sale 3064, lot 33067

This specimen was lot 33067 in Heritage sale 3064 (Chicago, April 2018), where it sold for $1,440. The catalog description^[1] noted, "George III gold 1/2 Sovereign 1818 MS63 NGC. A brilliant example of this desirous piece with frosty devices and soft fields." George III half sovereigns are listed for 1817, 1818 and 1820 with 1817 being the most common. An overdate, 1818/7, is reported.

Recorded mintage: 1,030,000 plus a few proofs.

Specification: 3.99 g, 0.917 fine gold.

Catalog reference: Fr-372; S-3786; KM-673.

Source:

• Bressett, Kenneth E., A Guide Book of English Coins, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1962.
• Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
• Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Cristiano Bierrenbach and Warren Tucker, Heritage World Coin Auction 3064, featuring the Doug Robins Collection of Canadian Tokens, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2018.

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