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Recently purchased this coin when I noticed this over strike on the reverse of an 1871 shield sovereign (die 32)M over M in Britanniarum anyone come across this before?

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Recently purchased this coin when I noticed this over strike on the reverse of an 1871 shield sovereign (die 32)M over M in Britanniarum anyone come across this before?

I haven't seen that particular one, but double-punching and over-strikes are actually a very common phenomenon before the 20th Century. Whether or not they are so common for gold, someone else would need to say.

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