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<p>[QUOTE="serdogthehound, post: 26026550, member: 111388"]It's a SP61 one of ten certified from that year in Specimen. The important thing here is mine is a specimen rather then a currency strike. </p><p><br /></p><p>I honestly just wanted an early specimen sovereigns from Ottawa so I bid what I thought was fair on this. A gold standard era Proof or specimen was always on my list </p><p><br /></p><p>in terms of rarity the date is overall is listed by Drake Sterling as the second rarest of the Edward VII series and they States </p><p><br /></p><p>"I have omitted the ultra-rare 1902 proof sovereigns from Sydney and Melbourne, as well as the 1909 specimen coin from Canada. The average collector would be forgiven for excluding these coins from his or her set"</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.drakesterling.com/news/post/sovereign-rarities-from-edward-vii-ranked-from-top-to-bottom" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.drakesterling.com/news/post/sovereign-rarities-from-edward-vii-ranked-from-top-to-bottom" rel="nofollow">https://www.drakesterling.com/news/post/sovereign-rarities-from-edward-vii-ranked-from-top-to-bottom</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Over all Drake's site has a lot of good information of Sovereigns </p><p><br /></p><p>It is currently impossible to know how many of these are in private hands. again currently 10 are certified and 1 is impounded in the Bank of Canada collection. These do sell somewhat regularly with 7 auction in since 2013 including one tomorrow </p><p><br /></p><p>I also won a relatively common(The relatively does a lot of work since only 636 were struck) 1908-C Lets just say those are my major buys for a bit lol barring an affordable 1916-C since I would like to be able to have a full date set of Ottawa Sovereigns. </p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect I may have gotten a great deal as there are some high end exsamples (65 for both year plus two 1911-C in SP 67) crossing the block in the next couple of weeks[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="serdogthehound, post: 26026550, member: 111388"]It's a SP61 one of ten certified from that year in Specimen. The important thing here is mine is a specimen rather then a currency strike. I honestly just wanted an early specimen sovereigns from Ottawa so I bid what I thought was fair on this. A gold standard era Proof or specimen was always on my list in terms of rarity the date is overall is listed by Drake Sterling as the second rarest of the Edward VII series and they States "I have omitted the ultra-rare 1902 proof sovereigns from Sydney and Melbourne, as well as the 1909 specimen coin from Canada. The average collector would be forgiven for excluding these coins from his or her set" [URL]https://www.drakesterling.com/news/post/sovereign-rarities-from-edward-vii-ranked-from-top-to-bottom[/URL] Over all Drake's site has a lot of good information of Sovereigns It is currently impossible to know how many of these are in private hands. again currently 10 are certified and 1 is impounded in the Bank of Canada collection. These do sell somewhat regularly with 7 auction in since 2013 including one tomorrow I also won a relatively common(The relatively does a lot of work since only 636 were struck) 1908-C Lets just say those are my major buys for a bit lol barring an affordable 1916-C since I would like to be able to have a full date set of Ottawa Sovereigns. I suspect I may have gotten a great deal as there are some high end exsamples (65 for both year plus two 1911-C in SP 67) crossing the block in the next couple of weeks[/QUOTE]
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