JamesMason59

Hi,

Please excuse my other post as I didn't realise that there was a dedicated thread for this kind of thing.

I thought I might check with some of the experts on here. I'm interested in buying an 1872 shield back half sovereign. One I've found on ebay (my first time buying gold off it so I want to be careful) has the die number 38. From my own research it seems like this die number doesn't exist although the source I'm using , Marsh , is from 1982. The number 58 also doesn't exist in case it's simply a mistake in reading the number. Can anyone tell me otherwise and is it possible that this die number could exist or could it be a fake.

The ebay page: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1872-Victoria-22ct-Gold-Shield-Back-Half-Sovereign-Die-38/274355896036?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3D60908d7834d54f329cf1add37317cced%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D15%26mehot%3Dnone%26sd%3D274355896036%26itm%3D274355896036%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A08732a77-b716-11ea-a563-74dbd1800909|parentrq%3Aecd99f9a1720a16e8e9f495fffeb8826|iid%3A1

Thanks.