Great Britain 1912 sovereign

from the Stack's Bowers 2019 ANA sale, lot 22873

This specimen was lot 22873 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2019), where it sold for $384. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Sovereign, 1912. London Mint. PCGS MS-63 Gold Shield. Nice strike with soft satin luster." This was issued in large numbers 1911-17 with another issue in 1925 during Britain's last attempt to maintain the gold standard. Sovereigns minted since 1937 were for collectors and bullion investors and not intended to circulate.

Recorded mintage: 30,318,000.

Specification: 7.99 g, 0.917 fine gold, 0.234 troy oz AGW.

Catalog reference: S-3996; Fr-404; KM-820.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• 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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