Z - Complete Australian Sovereign Set 1855 - 1932
1879S SHIELD


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Set Details
Origin/Country: AUSTRALIA - CIRCULATION
Design Description:
Item Description: 1SOV 1879S SHIELD
Grade: NGC MS 62
Owner: Zebo
 
Winning Set: Z - Complete Australian Sovereign Set 1855 - 1932
Date Added: 12/13/2016
Research: See NGC's Census Report for this Coin

Owner's Description

Very Scarce in this condition Quartermaster
(R2 Crellin)
Mintage 1,366,000 which also includes the St. George reverse
Victoria Young Head
Shield
Pop 6 (only + ) with none finer - NGC Best Known
Providence:
R Jaggard Collection 1989; sold to Paul Terry Collection by private treaty and then to Monetarium by private treaty, and then to the Quartermaster Collection in 1992; sold as part of the Quartermaster Collection in 2009 to the Park House Collection (British); the Park House Collection sold to this collection in 2015.
Pedigree Summary:

Quartermaster Collection

One of the most comprehensive Australian gold collections ever assembled. Put together by collector Tom Hadley in the early 1990s and early 2000s, the set contained every currency issue sovereign and half sovereign issued in Australia, as well as numerous rare patterns, proofs, and unofficial pre-Federation coinage. The collection was dispersed by Monetarium (Australia) in June 2009. A small, but not insignificant, run of sovereigns and half sovereigns purchased from the auction was submitted directly to PCGS. These coins trade in the market today with the Quartermaster Collection pedigree preserved on the certificate, and trade at a small premium to similar coins without the pedigree.

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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