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Auction 8  15 Feb 2023
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Lot 225

Starting price: 360 GBP
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Australia, Victoria (1837-1901), gold Sovereign, 1885, Sydney Mint, fourth young filleted head left, W.W. raised on truncation for engraver William Wyon, date below, Latin legend and toothed border surrounding, VICTORIA DEI GRATIA, rev. crowned quartered shield of arms, laurel wreath surrounding, mint letter S and emblems below, Latin legend and toothed border surrounding, BRITANNIARUM REGINA FID: DEF:, edge milled, 7.97g (Bentley 670; McD 137; Marsh 81; S.3855). Once cleaned but now toned in peripheries with some bagmarks in fields, very fine.

Calendar year mintage 1,486,000 (Including St. George reverse).

The Latin legends translates on obverse as "Victoria by the Grace of God," and on the reverse "Queen of the Britons, Defender of the Faith."
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