Great Britain 1957 sovereign

Goldberg sale 116, lot 1112

This specimen was lot 1112 in Goldberg sale 116 (Los Angeles, June 2020), where it sold for $444. The catalog description^[1] noted, "Great Britain. Sovereign, 1957. Elizabeth II. NGC graded MS-63." This type of 1957-68 is the first large issue of sovereigns since George V but these were sold to investors and collectors and not issued for circulation.

Recorded mintage: 2,072,000 + proofs.

Specification: 7.98 g, 0.917 fine gold, 0.2355 ounce AGW.

Catalog reference: S.4124; KM-908.

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.
• 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.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Goldberg, Ira, Larry Goldberg, John Lavender, Yifu Che, Jason Villareal and Stephen Harvey, Goldberg Sale 116: the Pre-Long Beach Auction, Los Angeles: Goldberg Coins and Collectibles, 2020.

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