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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Yahya, post: 544696, member: 15639&quot;]Renniks also gives its mintage as 310,000 but says &quot;No examples known&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Compare this with the 1926 Melbourne sovereign mintage of 211,000, which Renniks prices very low, at from 250 for VF to 650 for Gem - something extremely fishy going on here!</p><p><br /></p><p>Or compare it with the 1927 Perth sovereign, 1.38M minted, priced from 475 VF to 1500 Gem.</p><p><br /></p><p>Belinda Downie (who should know) says that Australian gold sovereigns and halves are very underpriced.&nbsp; My impression is that there&#039;s some bargains to be had, based on the rather low prices catalogued for some relatively scarce to rare coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>If no examples of these coins are known, has anyone a plausible reason for their disappearance en masse?&nbsp; Could they have been hoarded ?&nbsp; Lost?&nbsp; Stolen?&nbsp;&nbsp; It was rather too many coins to just, seemingly, evaporate.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A puzzle.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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