Great Britain 1888 sovereign

Stack's Bowers October 2021 Collector's Choice sale, lot 71074

This specimen was lot 71074 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2021), where it sold for $576. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Sovereign, 1888. London Mint. Victoria. PCGS MS-62. 2nd Obverse type. Shimmering and highly radiant, this specimen offers a good deal of lustrous brilliance along with a great rendition of the 'jubilee bust'." This type was struck 1887-92 in considerable numbers and is called the "jubilee head." This date is common.

Recorded mintage: 2,777,000.

Specification: 7.98 g, 0.917 fine gold, .235 troy oz AGW.

Catalog reference: S-3866B; Fr-392; KM-767; Dish-L9.

Source:

• 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.
• Bressett, Kenneth E., A Guide Book of English Coins, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1962.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
• Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The October 2021 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

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