Sovereign 1908C (Ottawa Mint) Satin FinishS.3970 in a PCGS holder and graded SP61. One of the rarest Sovereigns in the entire series. See Notes in Marsh pages 81-83. Marsh stated that he had only recorded 11 examples, a superb piece and missing from many advanced gold collections, this coin is in an older style PCGS holder and seems very conservatively graded at MS61 with little or no contact marks and hairlines discernible under magnification, an example of this coin in PCGS SP63 realised £15,000 hammer in our September 2020 auction
Sovereign 1908C (Ottawa Mint) Satin FinishS.3970 in a PCGS holder and graded SP63. One of the rarest Sovereigns in the entire series. See Notes in Marsh pages 81-83. Marsh stated that he had only recorded 11 examples, a superb piece and missing from many advanced gold collections.
Half Sovereigns (3) 1906S Marsh 523 Fine, cleaned with some thin scratches, 1908S Marsh 524 Good Fine with some surface marks and edge nicks, 1910S Marsh 525 NVF the obverse cleaned with some surface marks
Sovereign 1908S Marsh 210 GEF slabbed and graded CGS 65, the only example so far recorded by the CGS Population Report so probably much scarcer than catalogues suggest as CGS have graded almost 4,000 Sovereigns
Sovereign 1908 C Satin Proof Lustrous UNC and graded CGS 80 and in their holder, notes in Marsh state 678 Sovereigns were struck at the Ottawa Mint in 1908, of which 633 were issued, one of the rarest coins in the Sovereign series, Marsh stated that he ranked this and the 1819 Sovereign as the two key coins in the series
Sovereign 1908S Marsh 210 VF our records indicate this is the first we have offered since 2003, also none of the 59 1908 Sovereigns graded by CGS have been the Sydney mint coin, presumably a lot more scarce than the catalogues would suggest
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