Orpster

What @Petra has said is only true for coins from the past few years. Gillicks, and anything older, will all have a different desired grade. For an example on an average shield sovereign you can pick up AU graded coins for £30-£80 more than a raw bullion, low MS for about £80-120 more but once you get to MS63 the price jumps dramatically the closer you are to top pop (the highest grade coin for that year/type/mint). And top pop coins can go for thousands. Perhaps if you tell us the coin and grade we will be able to be more precise

Yes please Flip, I hesitated and missed

Too cheap mate, stick a tenner on it (at least)

Its a replacement COA, that's what the R stands for. Someone had the set and it either came without a COA or they lost it, they requested a replacement and they got 00002R, meaning they were the second person to ask for a replacement COA

The colonial young heads are mostly shared mintages, though there are a few they know the split. I dont really use BBP but suspect thats what the asterix is yes, check the 1883M if there is no asterix thats another indicator as they know the split of shields & G&D for that year

There are no records that tell how many of each type were minted unfortunately, all we know is 1m in total It will be scarce based on the author(s) knowledge of how many come to market, auction records etc. You will notice the G&D is only classed as 'Normal' I have both but my shield is a pants example (polished). If you ever sell I would be interested, or if you want to trade for something else By that point in history shields were mainly minted for trade in the East where they were not keen on the George & Dragon, so shields were kind of 'minted to order'.

This is incorrect, the mintages of the shields and G&S Young Heads are combined so the total is 1m

........Kind.....what is this word 🤔

Yea, you know, like in the title of the post 🤣

How much do the 1oz Una go for at the moment?

Seen one very similar recently, a 1922 with no mint mark Weight OK Tests well Were it not for the missing mint mark, would you even give it a second glance 🤷‍♂️

@BriEarl

Oh its agony.....someone buy it ffs

I am aware of a couple of folk, one of whom is an ex-forum member, that give their coins a dip into a sonic jewellery cleaner - when they were active on the forum they were quite renown for selling 'nice clean examples' While this is still possibly the safest way to clean coins, it is still anathema to me. To each their own but if you see a spotless coin with knocks and signs of circulation but no apparent hairlines - its potentially had a bath.

Todays deliveries, sandhill tube of ha'pennies, three commemorative crowns and a slabbed Maklouf off @JohnV66

Let’s just say I’m glad it’s not here for prosperity in case I want to sell one ☝️

I'm on the slow side today 🤷‍♂️

Has this sold?

I would keep it slabbed at least while you are going to keep it in your possession Removing it risks damaging as its not an easy task getting the big 5oz'ers out of the slabs. If you have the box and COA in your possession it will be worth as much if not more than a raw when you come to sell as its generally 'slab only' PF69's that go under raw price, its actually the missing box and COA that lower the value not the fact it is a 69 (compared to raw). And you never know, one day people may go back top buying the coin and not the grade! Likely also worth checking the population, PF69's tend to have a reasonable value compared to raw if the PF70 population is not through the roof

There are lots and lots of little irregularities and errors on sovereigns, especially in the 1850's and early 1860's. They are still finding new ones now. Only those known by the author(s) of the Gold Sovereign book will be noted. Some error coins and varieties can be worth more than a standard version, sometimes significantly, some are just something that makes the coin more interesting and potentially more desirable

Never ever ever clean a coin, just never

@HB1 you know you want to

1988 please

Depending when you bought (and where) special date sovereigns have taken something of a hammering over what they get over 'normal' years recently - the current premiums are very much not the norm They will no doubt come good though, when premiums pick up generally those on the special years will hopefully return to where they were

Yea I only have one myself, a 1917C. I would like more but the auction prices these have been going for the last year or so make my wallet cry