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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sovereign, post: 660038, member: 19847&quot;]Hello John</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It is always a good idea to define your collecting parameters and certainly a date series only, allows you to avoid most of the extremely rare sovereigns as normally (not always) there is a cheaper alternative. Unless you particularly want a separate Canadian collection why not combine this with your date run? For most dates 1908-1919 (No Canadian 1915) the Canadian coin is the most interesting anyway, although I would advise also including 1916 London and 1919 Melbourne. 1920-1931 avoid South African sovereigns and stick to Australian struck coins, you can do this on a reasonable budget Perth and Melbourne will get you there, unless you are looking to add 1923 / 24 SA to your collection the only SA mint you should have is 1932.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1817-1837 is expensive in good grade with 1828 @10k GBP on its own, so I would give this aspect of your collection careful consideration before embarking on and suggest you maybe start at 1838 Victoria? Here you will find a 1838 available mainly in low VF grades for 600-1000GBP without too much trouble, then you can double that for a similar 1839 and double again for a low grade 1841. From 1842 your date run becomes a lot easier and cheaper, for initial collections you should try to find coins in @VF-GVF which are both available if you look for them and relatively inexpensive compared to EF or even UNC. Don&#039;t be fooled by fuzzy Internet pictures with the seller proclaiming their coin to be uncirculated, 99 time out of a hundred they are not.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As you work your way through your date run I always advise looking to improve on the dates you already have, if you have a 1862 and you see a better one at a good price buy it and sell the original. This way you will constantly improve your collections overall grade at very little extra cost, so even when you complete the run you still keep looking to improve, its a lifetimes work :mouth:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I hope that is some of some help?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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