Stanley Gibbons Baldwin's
Auction 76 27 September 2012
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THE BENTLEY COLLECTION OF MILLED GOLD SOVEREIGNS.
PART TWO. Royal Mint Issues – London. William IV, Sovereign, 1832, high off-set 2 in date, second bare head right with coarse hair and flat topped, deeply engraved ear, W.W. fully incuse on truncation, nose points to second I in BRITANNIAR, second M possibly over a V or small half-sovereign sized m and double punched, coarse border teeth, rev crowned quartered shield of arms, with the arms of Hanover as an escutcheon, date out of alignment below, finer border teeth, 7.87g (Marsh 17; MCE 490; S 3829B). Surface marks, good fine, an unusual die variety, scarce.
purchased via A H Baldwin & Sons Ltd, March 2006
Calendar year mintage 3,737,065
It is interesting to note that, as one of the lower grade Sovereigns in the Bentley Collection, this coin is well under the legal tender weight limit that was set in successive Coinage Acts from 1816-1891.
William IV died on 20 June 1837.
Estimate: £500-600
PART TWO. Royal Mint Issues – London. William IV, Sovereign, 1832, high off-set 2 in date, second bare head right with coarse hair and flat topped, deeply engraved ear, W.W. fully incuse on truncation, nose points to second I in BRITANNIAR, second M possibly over a V or small half-sovereign sized m and double punched, coarse border teeth, rev crowned quartered shield of arms, with the arms of Hanover as an escutcheon, date out of alignment below, finer border teeth, 7.87g (Marsh 17; MCE 490; S 3829B). Surface marks, good fine, an unusual die variety, scarce.
purchased via A H Baldwin & Sons Ltd, March 2006
Calendar year mintage 3,737,065
It is interesting to note that, as one of the lower grade Sovereigns in the Bentley Collection, this coin is well under the legal tender weight limit that was set in successive Coinage Acts from 1816-1891.
William IV died on 20 June 1837.
Estimate: £500-600