The Hyde Park Collection - Australian Victoria Sovereigns 1855-1901
VICTORIA SOVEREIGN SYDNEY MINT 1883S SHIELD

Owner Comments:

Very Scarce in this condition
Mintage 1,108,000
Victoria Young Head
Shield
Ex-Park House Collection sold 2015 to this collection

Pedigree Summary:

Park House Collection

The Park House Collection went under the hammer in May 2015. The collection was assembled over many years by Bob Jaggard and Mark Rasmussen on behalf of a Singaporean-based collector. The collection contained a nearly-complete run of English and colonial sovereigns from 1817 to 2011, while the Australian section of the set included several issues from the Quartermaster Collection. Special varieties and the two Adelaide Pounds were also included. The collection did not contain the Edward VIII 1937 proof sovereign, but both 1920-S specimen sovereign (ex-Quartermaster Collection) and 1953 proof sovereign (ex-Hemisphere Collection) were represented: These two coins alone together brought in over $1.7 million Australian dollars. Several of the Australian rarities were submitted to PCGS and subsequently graded, and bear the Park House Collection pedigree. As of writing (July 2015), the collection has not quite got the name-recognition of the Eliasberg, Terner, or Quartermaster collections, but I believe this will change in time as the collection gains prestige.

Pedigree summary provided by Eric Eigner
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