Lot 314
Great Britain. Sovereign, 1843. Victoria Young Head. S-3852; Fr-387e; KM-736.1. A really choice coin with excellent luster. The cataloguer suggests, based on long experience, that the book price of 275 Pounds for most of these early Victorian sovereigns in "Unc." is meaningless; constant communication with collectors in the UK tells us that such a price gets you (once in a while) a nice slider, nothing more. Yet most of these dates have the same price notation in the Spink reference, while the equally rare dates of the 1850s book for slightly less! The situation reminds the cataloguer of Red Book prices for "Unc." U.S. gold back in the 1960s and early 1970s: an 1856-S quarter eagle might have had a Red Book value of $65, but nobody ever had one! PCGS graded MS-63.
Estimated Value $400 - 600.
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| Realized $1,208 |
