Hi all, need some help valuating sovereign 1908c

[Tombuck]

Hi all,

i have recently inherited a sovereign with the year 1908 and a c just above the date. Must admit I don't know a thing about coins but have searched the net a bit and it seems quite rare? Would anyone be able to help me? Essex, England

[Rob]

Pictures please of both sides. 633 struck, but proofs. Anything less than as struck or nearly so might be suspect, though not necessarily so.

[Tombuck]

Hi rob, your going to have to help me out with all this if you don't mind! What does struck and proofs mean please? Sorry as I said it's the first old fashioned coin I've ever had! And it's saying image size to large to upload! Any way round this please? 

Thanks tom 

[Rob]

They made 633 of them, but they were struck from specially prepared dies and not the lower quality seen on regular currency dies. i.e. they were more likely to kept rather than spent, hence my comment that a badly worn one would be suspect, or at least initially. It was the first sovereign issue from the Ottawa mint

Pictures have to be a maximum of 500kB. You can either resize or use a hosting site such as Photobucket. You aren't the first person to encounter a problem uploading.

This is 1949s reply to wild camper last night on the same point. Saves typing it out.

When you upload to photobucket, as Nick says, there should be a "direct link" - highlight and then right click and copy. Then when postin on here, click on the symbol above, to the right of the "underline" - it looks a bit like a chain link. Right click in the box where it says URL (disregard the greyed out text) and paste your direct link from photobucket into it, then click "insert into post". That has got to do it.     

If you can't load the second side without cumulatively exceeding 500kB, leave the thread and re-enter. That will allow another 500kB.