St. James's recently (24 February) had a sale of sovereigns that confirmed why it is that I do not collect such. Common date Victorian sovs went for plenty of money and the later QE II special proofs of the late 1950s also. The brass 1967 went for about FIFTY times estimate, and it is not clearly a Royal Mint product.... At one time I had thought about collecting Vick sovs but even 10-20 years ago many of these coins had gone ballistic. Interestingly, I bought a few coins at the Turner sale and for some reason bought an 1894 sov. in PCGS64, still the Pop Top, and possibly under graded at that. As I like Victoria currency coins, I held on to it. It is listed as common in all catalogues, including Steve Hill's but evidently at least in slabbed form is quite scarce in 63 and above to say the least. FYI the 1895 sovereign may be of similar scarcity/rarity as well. To digress just a bit, the interest in these has been lukewarm or worse, so while the coast of proof Vicky gold has gone crazy, coins such as this have languished which suggests at least to me that true collectors are very scarce when compared to the number of trophy accumulators and investors. That is discouraging to me but very little I or we can do. I think the same holds for the silver series of Victoria & later as well. Try to find a top 1841 half crown or the currency 1839 half crown - these are prohibitively rare (esp. the latter) but few seem to care and they also languish. Ah well, just a couple of random Saturday observations....
Well, here ya go. I must say I was disappointed by the pictures as the reverse is proof like and the obverse has some holder marks and stains....Ex-Terner
You got me curious with the brass 1967 sovereign. Looking at https://www.lot-art.com/auction-lots/Sovereigns/323-sovereign-24.2.22-baldwin yes it does look dubious.
