Ashtonian

Sorry for not posting sooner. What you have is a normal legend 1872 half sovereign with a die number of 103, this means the nose of Victoria points to letter O in Victoria and the reverse has 147 denticles which was the norm from 1872 to 1880. There also exists a quite different 1872 half sovereign with the repositioned legend which also bears the same die number 103 but comes from completely different dies, this has an obverse where the nose of Victoria points to T, and a reverse that has far fewer denticles 122. One of the RL coins was recently sold at Canterbury Auction Galleries. but yours is the first NL coin I have seen so far with the 103. With the 105 die number, again there are two versions of the same coin, RL and NL versions. which use the same die number but are come from different dies. The Royal Mint report for 1872 shows that 402 reverse dies where used, as of today I have only recorded approximately just over half this number. Ashtonian