Hello, i m gabriele from italy. I follow your website and i permit myself write to you to ask about a doubt i have. I have some sovereign and usually are pink orange toned. I have come accross 2 coin wich are yellowish. Diameter,weight and thickness look ok like the orher coin, but i dont think is a polished-non polished related. In your experience i can keep them or better change them? Thanks and sorry for my poir english! Gabriele, toscana
A friend of mine say the same. I tryed to clean an pld ruined sovereign with capecod, but no difference appear. But maybe a jeweller can polish with something else ... Thanks
They look like normal QEII sovs, but I wonder about your description of the colour of others. The ideal gadget to check these is still Harrison's Patent sovereign scale.
Left pinkish, right yellowish. I know the scale you say, but weight and size/thickness of mine looks ok.
The one one the left in the first picture definitely looks cleaned. Are the pics of all the same coins? I think you should take the pictures with the same background for both obverse and reverse because it's impacting how the colors appear imo.
In the last pic i posted you can see well the difference. 4 different coins but you can see two pink and two more yellow. Honestly it' like composition difference because polished or not they can shine but dont change tone. A friend of mine see that also on krugerrand. But maybe jeweller polish isn t my cape code polishing. Sorry for my bad english ...
I've seen variations like that before on similar coins. It's more a result of the specific alloy making up the coin (whether silver or copper) imo than anything else as they are only 22k.
Nice chart, thanks. So i can collect without too much worries i think. I asked because same gold+same copper was same colour in my tough. Thanks, gabriele
