Stanley Gibbons Baldwin's
Auction 79 8 May 2013
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The Bentley Collection of British Milled Gold Sovereigns
1848 Sovereign with Bulbous 4 in Date
Victoria, Sovereign, 1848, unusual rendering of 4 with bulbous top, second larger young head left, hair bound with double fillet, W.W. raised on truncation, legend surrounding, date below, squat 4 with flawed top, rev crowned quartered shield of arms within laurel wreath, F of FID doubled, 7.97g (Marsh 31; MCE 509; S 3852C). Cleaned with surface marks, otherwise very fine and unusual.
ex St James's Auction 11, 8 May 2009, lot 401
Calendar year mintage 2,246,701
This is the most prolific of the 1848 coins carrying the new second larger young head, albeit with some doubling of date and legend. The change occurred, perhaps, for the reasons discussed in the introduction to the second young head of Queen Victoria in part one of the Bentley Collection, before lot 56. See also "a note on varieties" in the introduction, specifically the part about dual-hubbed dies which is responsible for the doubling of date and legend.
Estimate: £300-400
The Bentley Collection of British Milled Gold Sovereigns
1848 Sovereign with Bulbous 4 in Date
Victoria, Sovereign, 1848, unusual rendering of 4 with bulbous top, second larger young head left, hair bound with double fillet, W.W. raised on truncation, legend surrounding, date below, squat 4 with flawed top, rev crowned quartered shield of arms within laurel wreath, F of FID doubled, 7.97g (Marsh 31; MCE 509; S 3852C). Cleaned with surface marks, otherwise very fine and unusual.
ex St James's Auction 11, 8 May 2009, lot 401
Calendar year mintage 2,246,701
This is the most prolific of the 1848 coins carrying the new second larger young head, albeit with some doubling of date and legend. The change occurred, perhaps, for the reasons discussed in the introduction to the second young head of Queen Victoria in part one of the Bentley Collection, before lot 56. See also "a note on varieties" in the introduction, specifically the part about dual-hubbed dies which is responsible for the doubling of date and legend.
Estimate: £300-400