Great Britain 1885 sovereign

Stack's Bowers 2021 ANA sale, lot 44650

photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 44650 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Costa Mesa, CA, August 2021), where it sold for $1,140. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Sovereign, 1885. London Mint. Victoria. PCGS MS-63 Gold Shield. A sharply struck and pleasing example of the type, with satiny luster and only the slightest of bagmarks." This type was minted in substantial numbers 1871-85 and is common, altho this date is scarce.

Recorded mintage: 718,000, a scarce date.

Specification: 7.98 g, .917 fine gold.

Catalog reference: Fr-388; S-3856F; KM-752.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th 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.
• 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.
• Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The August 2021 ANA sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

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