Patterns & proofs

Sale 85    24–27 Jul 2007   Dallas Brooks Centre   Melbourne

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Lot 1214    SESSION 5 (7.30pm Tuesday)    Patterns & proofs

Estimate $50,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $40,000

QUEEN VICTORIA, Melbourne Mint presentation proof-like specimen sovereign, 1872. Minute obverse rim bruise at 11.30 o'clock, otherwise nearly FDC and excessively rare if not unique, of considerable historical interest.

Sold with contemporary letter which states in full "For Flora, One of the first thirty sovereigns struck off at the Victorian Mint by the Governor of the Colony in 1872. From Her Father P. Normanby". The Melbourne Mint was opened for business on 12 June 1872 and it was then that the Governor, Sir J. H. T. Manners Sutton, K.C.M.G., presided at the striking of the first sovereigns as part of the opening ceremony. The second Marquess of Normanby was Governor of Queensland in 1872. Ex Spink Australia Sale 17 (lot 1041) and Sale 18 (lot 1111).

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