Lot 1547
Sale 74 · Important Australian, British & World Coins, Medals & Banknotes
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Description
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.
- Estimate
- $500
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $920