Great Britain 1908 1/2 sovereign
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This specimen was lot 22859 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2019), where it sold for $204. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 1/2 Sovereign, 1908. London Mint. PCGS AU-58 Gold Shield. Good strike, lustrous and attractive." This type was struck 1902-10 in considerable numbers and is the only half sovereign for Edward VII.
Recorded mintage: 3,997,000.
Specification: 3.99 g, 0.917 fine gold.
Catalog reference: S-3974B; Fr-401; KM-804.
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- 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.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The August 2019 Chicago ANA Auction: World Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2019.
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