Great Britain Gold
Lot 1547 Session 6 (9.30am Thursday) Great Britain Gold
Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $920
WILLIAM IV,SOVEREIGN, 1837 (S.3829B) Scratched at neck otherwise nearly extremely fine/ extremely fine.
Ex T.V.Holland Collection. Purchased in 1945 from an Adelaide bank teller who received it from a fisherman who had retreived it from the gullet of a fish he caught off the Coornong in South Australia, presumably the coin being from a shipwreck site. News clippings of the incident exist.
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Lot 1545
GEORGE IV, sovereign, bare head, 1829 (S.3801). Minor edge knock, nearly extremely fine.
Estimate $450
Lot 1546
GEORGE IV, half sovereign, 1825 (S.3803). Full original mint bloom, uncirculated and rare thus.
Estimate $900
Lot 1547 This lot
WILLIAM IV,SOVEREIGN, 1837 (S.3829B) Scratched at neck otherwise nearly extremely fine/ extremely fine.
Estimate $500
Lot 1548
WILLIAM IV, sovereign, 1837 (S.3829B). Very fine.
Estimate $300
Lot 1549
QUEEN VICTORIA, proof young head sovereign, shield reverse, 1839, normal die axis, plain edge, (S.3852). ...
Estimate $5,000