Do you collect sovereigns?
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Do you collect gold sovereigns?
If so, show us some.
Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.
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Here is one of mine. Happy Saturday
Nice!
Given my moniker , I may start a set sometime.
Got to get me one of those some time! Gorgeous!
I’ve got a few. Like to pick these up when I can. Sniped these from eBay Below spot when gold price was at $1300.
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2005 (special year design)
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Collect? Dragons are more for hoarding...
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I have a few British sovereigns (and some guineas) but this one is special:
British gold sovereign 1963
In the 1963 film "From Russia with Love" British secret agent James Bond (Sean Connery) is given an attache case with fifty British gold sovereign coins.
Attache case sovereigns with the head of Elizabeth II
James Bond offers his sovereigns to a Spectre agent
I wanted a 1963 British gold sovereign after seeing the film but United States gold regulations and personal finances prohibited obtaining one.
Until recently.
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I have a sovereign or sovereign sized ( as close as possible ) gold coin from each British monarch from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II. I do not have any pictures.
I’ve got several for sale on the BST for spot!
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There are man ways to collect sovereigns. By monarch, reverse, date, mint, type to name a few. There are also a load of varieties. What would you collect? A sovereign collection can grow quickly and get out of hand if you aren't careful.
Not sure yet. Maybe by type and monarch
At the moment, I only have one sovereign:
I just pucked up two PCGS pieces: 1918-C MS63 and 1918-I MS64 for $5 over melt at a show.
There are some great historical pieces available for great prices.
Also bought a raw 1902 for $320 (melt was $379), which is why I don't put prices on gold.
Great prices - I've never been that lucky.
That would be a nice collection. Talk to Bill Jones if you go that route. Not so much about sovereigns - but he recently posted a nice series about the Monarchs. He might have some good pointers. I started with just the St. George reverse - then expanded to George III to Elizabeth II - then narrowed my focus to Victoria, Edward VII and George V. Some carry hefty premiums.
Hoarding is good - but sovereigns are highly collectable and there are many exceptional collections out there.
Got a few, though the doubles are my favorite. I mean, what's not to like, gold and many of them have a heroic dude on a cool horse on the reverse.
My collection of regular sovereigns is pretty much just a random bullion pile (and the reference to a dragon is quite apt I think--see the thread on coin collector types, I think dragons are a type!).
My more collectible types are doubles or halves for some reason.
An Australian Sovereign
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Nice photo - that's one I need to upgrade. Did you take the photo and if so, what program are you using for the background?
Very nice - nice photo too.
Nice little hoard you have there.
ATS? Or @weiss?
At the risk of boring you, my process is quite amateur.
After I have taken the image I open the file in the freePaint.Net program so I can use the ellipse tool to get a nice round image.
(Then invert selection fill selection to get the black background.)
That would give an image such as above.
Typically I then open the obverse and reverse images one at a time in Photoshop and make the image sizes (dimensions) identical.
Next I open the obverse image in MSPaint, widen the view and paste the reverse in to get both images side by side and then, voila, I save it.
I'm sure there's an easier way but this works for me.
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Thanks - they do look nice.
No... But I truly hope that those that do enjoy the pursuit and numerous series that exit under various Monarchs.
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Would you go with the rarer issues for your type set or higher graded commen sovereigns?
Finished a basic monarch type set. Still looking for George III, IV, and William IV to take it back a bit. Then there are the different reverses, mintmarks and half sovereigns to play with.
Nice set - adding different reverse types and mint marks will more than double your current set. Going back further adds even more. It would be a very nice set once completed - well worth collecting. Very interesting history to boot.
I think I saw that there were over 200 different combinations of obverse, reverse and mintmarks for sovereigns. Not going to make it that far!
Not that many unless you are taking into account die numbers and varieties - then there are more depending upon how minor of a variety you are collecting. For the set you currently have -- off the top of my head - you have:
Queen Victoria: Young head and Sydney Mint issues:
GB shield (not counting die numbers) and GB STG
Special issue reverses such as the 1989, 2002 shield, 2005 and 2012 STG, and five from 2017
AUS Sydney type 1 and 2 (1855-1870)
AUS Queen Victoria young head:
AUS Sydney and Melbourne issues with shield and STG reverse
AUS Queen Victoria Jubilee head:
AUS Sydney and Melbourne
AUS Veil or Old head:
AUS Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth
Edward VII
GB; AUS Sydney, Melbourne and Perth; CAN STG
George V
GB; AUS Sydney, Melbourne and Perth; CAN; IND and SA STG
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I don't know that one has to be exhaustive in collecting sovereigns. I know that I sold basically all of mine, excepting a decent 1879 London Mint and 1913C and 1914C Canadian. Still like them and get the odd piece here or there - nice coin.
I like the early Vicky copper farthings 1838-1860 that utilized a sovereign obverse and are quite beautiful at times in their own right.
Well, just Love coins, period.
there are so many ways to collect sovereigns - more so than any other coin that I know of. Unless you want a very large collection (i.e. The Bentley collection) you can put together sets from very small to extremely large for a single coin. Over 200 years for the modern sovereign (1817 to the present), five countries and seven mints.
@7jaguars. Sounds like you kept three good ones.
It will be weird to see Charles and / or William on a coin in the future.
I know these aren't technically sovereigns, but I figure they are close enough. I've been working on a complete set, and it's surprisingly challenging:
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You could always start collecting South Africian sovereigns. The 1923and 1924 are pricey, but the rest are easily obtained.
I appreciate the excuse to spend more money.
Just think of the fun you would have. You could then expand to the other six mints. It could be almost like gold stacking.
I missed this thread earlier, but I have some sovereigns! I have been collecting them in sort of a type set fashion. I still would like to obtain a 1937 George VI proof and a 2017 Pistrucci 200th Anniversary at some point, but the pricing on these is currently too high for me. Here's a few of mine:
Here are my Victoria's:
Edward VII & George V:
And then all of the Elizabeth II's:
What’s the best book on sovereigns of the British empire/commonwealth?
I'd start with Marsh's The Gold Soverign (revised by Steve Hill). There are a few others (dated) that provides some very good information as well.
Just started to collect these interesting coins. Here are 2 of mine.
I need some nice photographs like these - nice job.
Have fun with them. There are so many ways (sets) that you can build of these - much more than any other coin given the length of time they have been minted and the number of mints/countries involved - not to mention monarchs. A lot of history - good books on the sovereign and plenty of interest.