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5oz Perth    -    'The Monkey King'    -   Also in 1oz   -   from Silber-corner.de  

A link here for the import of investment gold coins. Section 2.1 suggests there is no duty on any coin that costs less than 180% of open market gold price. Lets hope you have a bit of good fortune. Maybe you can give us a 'coded' smiley face when it arrives.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-notice-70121-gold/vat-notice-70121-gold

Sovereignsteve at #2194

It was a general ebay buy it now where the seller had suggested a possible 3 over 2.

I cannot get a more productive photo as it really needs a dslr with macro. The ones posted are photographs via a cheap 40x magnifier. A normal image enlarged just pixelates.

The Marsh 2002 book greyscan as you can see shows two 'pointed' edges around the ass of the 3 which you can also see on this one I have. In some ways it also looks a little like a double stamp as you can see an additional line round the bottom end of the 3. I am not quite sure how Marsh comes to the conclusion his photo plate shows a 2 because strictly it looks nothing like. In conclusion then, it looks like it has something under the 3 due to those pointed edges. The 4 also looks odd.

By the way just to be clear - the top right photo from yesterday is a different (normal) coin just used as a comparison sample.

1843 sovereign with date error.

Attached are photos of the full coin with the error. A photo of a normal 1843 dated coin. A photo of the date error stamp which if you have a Marsh 2002 book is shown on page 52 as having a couple of similar charicteristics. In Marsh the error illustrated is a 3 over 2.

The date on the coin its very difficult to photograph and make out

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The gold is from the wife the silver is from me.

Here is a man who obviously knows how to pick a wife.

Gives silver  .........   and gets gold in return ..    lol

Hi Steve, thank you for the reply and clarification. The word you have picked out is colossal which would seem apt to describe the situation on all fronts !

Question to Sovereign Steve or anyone else with the knowledge. This PCGS slabbed one has just sold on ebay for a hefty price.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Australia-1871-gold-Sovereign-Sydney-mint-shield-PCGS-MS63-/271831892804

It claims to be a Sydney sovereign whilst at the same time has a die number 28.

I thought only London mint had die numbers ?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rarely-Available-gold-proof-sovereign-four-coin-collection-u-k-/171748059587

2002 - Four Coin set.

Be careful of this one. It has a current price bid of £1650 and a postage fee of ... cough ... £325.00

Maybe a mistake ..... but on the other hand