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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 6645276, member: 10461"]<font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Great Britain: gold half-sovereign of Queen Victoria, 1901, from the Dr. Jacob Terner collection</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1268291[/ATTACH] </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Obverse</b>: veiled old head of Queen Victoria left.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Reverse:</b> Pistrucci's Greco-Romanized rendition of Saint George slaying the Dragon: St. George right, naked except for cape, on back of rearing horse, wielding <i>gladius</i>-style short sword to strike at dragon below.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">KM 784, .917 gold/.1177 oz. 3.99 g. Mintage: 2,037,999. PCGS MS64, with Terner pedigree noted on label. Cert. #90089936. Ex-Dimitri Gotzamanis, Athens, Greece (aka "SYRACUSIAN" on Collectors Universe), January, 2005, through a private trade. Prior provenance to the collection of Dr. Jacob Terner, purchased by him in 1982 and sold by Goldberg's as Lot 406 in the Pre-Long Beach Auction of May 26-27, 2003.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">I've had this beautiful little coin for many years now. It used to be one of the important pieces in my daughter's 1901 Victorian type set, but in early 2014, when she decided she really wasn't that interested in collecting coins, I sold her collection to reinvest the proceeds into something else until she grows up. I decided to keep this coin for myself, though, and so "bought" it back from Victoria to include in my own "Eclectic Box" collection.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Miscellaneous links:</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="http://www.pcgs.com/Cert/90089936/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/Cert/90089936/" rel="nofollow">PCGS cert verification page</a></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="http://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/great-britain-12-sovereign-km-784-1893-1901-cuid-43173-duid-123989" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/great-britain-12-sovereign-km-784-1893-1901-cuid-43173-duid-123989" rel="nofollow">NGC/Krause priceguide trends</a></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/catalogarchive/20030526/chap021.shtml#057903" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/catalogarchive/20030526/chap021.shtml#057903" rel="nofollow">2003 Goldberg auction listing</a> (Lot 406, this coin)</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Wikipedia links:</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_victoria" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_victoria" rel="nofollow">Queen Victoria</a></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_sovereign" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_sovereign" rel="nofollow">Half sovereign</a></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George_and_the_Dragon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George_and_the_Dragon" rel="nofollow">Saint George and the Dragon</a></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedetto_Pistrucci" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedetto_Pistrucci" rel="nofollow">Benedetto Pistrucci</a></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1268291[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1268292[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1268293[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1268294[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1268295[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1268296[/ATTACH] </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="1">030000S</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 6645276, member: 10461"][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5][B]Great Britain: gold half-sovereign of Queen Victoria, 1901, from the Dr. Jacob Terner collection[/B] [ATTACH=full]1268291[/ATTACH] [B]Obverse[/B]: veiled old head of Queen Victoria left. [B]Reverse:[/B] Pistrucci's Greco-Romanized rendition of Saint George slaying the Dragon: St. George right, naked except for cape, on back of rearing horse, wielding [I]gladius[/I]-style short sword to strike at dragon below. KM 784, .917 gold/.1177 oz. 3.99 g. Mintage: 2,037,999. PCGS MS64, with Terner pedigree noted on label. Cert. #90089936. Ex-Dimitri Gotzamanis, Athens, Greece (aka "SYRACUSIAN" on Collectors Universe), January, 2005, through a private trade. Prior provenance to the collection of Dr. Jacob Terner, purchased by him in 1982 and sold by Goldberg's as Lot 406 in the Pre-Long Beach Auction of May 26-27, 2003. I've had this beautiful little coin for many years now. It used to be one of the important pieces in my daughter's 1901 Victorian type set, but in early 2014, when she decided she really wasn't that interested in collecting coins, I sold her collection to reinvest the proceeds into something else until she grows up. I decided to keep this coin for myself, though, and so "bought" it back from Victoria to include in my own "Eclectic Box" collection. [B]Miscellaneous links:[/B] [URL='http://www.pcgs.com/Cert/90089936/']PCGS cert verification page[/URL] [URL='http://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/great-britain-12-sovereign-km-784-1893-1901-cuid-43173-duid-123989']NGC/Krause priceguide trends[/URL] [URL='http://www.goldbergcoins.net/catalogarchive/20030526/chap021.shtml#057903']2003 Goldberg auction listing[/URL] (Lot 406, this coin) [B]Wikipedia links:[/B] [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_victoria']Queen Victoria[/URL] [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_sovereign']Half sovereign[/URL] [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George_and_the_Dragon']Saint George and the Dragon[/URL] [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedetto_Pistrucci']Benedetto Pistrucci[/URL] [ATTACH=full]1268291[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1268292[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1268293[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1268294[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1268295[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1268296[/ATTACH] [/SIZE] [SIZE=1]030000S[/SIZE][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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