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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bardolph, post: 8440062, member: 96174&quot;]There were no 1866 sovereigns produced&nbsp; in Australia, the first ones were from the Sydney&nbsp; mint in 1871 and the Melbourne mint in 1872.</p><p><br /></p><p>Australian sovereigns are identical to those produced by the London mint, apart from their mintmarks, S and M, freely circulated throughout the British Empire, and feature in all my reference books.</p><p>This coin appears to have a genuine obverse so the &quot;restrike&quot;&nbsp; is on the reverse only.&nbsp; Is this feasible?</p><p>The other question is whether the restrike was official or totally unofficial. I am inclined to think that they were not totally official, as they are not recorded in my editions of Spinks but were perhaps tolerated within Australia[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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