Great Britain 1893 1/2 sovereign

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Heritage sale 3010, lot 22769
photo courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries

This specimen was lot 22769 in Heritage sale 3010 (Boston, August 2010), where it sold for $299. The catalog description[1] noted, "Victoria gold Half Sovereign 1893, Old or Veiled Head, uncertified, satiny UNC and quite pleasing." This type was struck 1893-1901 in considerable numbers. This "old bust" is the most familiar and most common of Victoria's half sovereigns.

Recorded mintage: 4,427,000 (including the Jubilee type) plus 773 proofs.

Specification: 3.99 g, .917 fine gold.

Catalog reference: Fr-397; S-3878; KM-766.

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.
  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • 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]Tucker, Warren, Scott Cordry and John Kraljevich, Heritage Sale 3010: World Coins, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2010.

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