Most Expensive British Coin

[Nordle11]

Has anyone else seen the blog the Royal Mint released about the 1937 proof sovereign? Apparently it realised £516,000?!

There was also a 1953 proof sovereign which took in £384,000...

They say the Edward VIII sov. is the most expensive British coin ever sold..

Link

[Rob]

It is a steady upwards progression of prices where desirable pieces are concerned. If you look at the past 12 or 13 years you had £138K for GC's petition crown, then the Coenwulf mancus at over 200K, the Glenister petition crown at a similar amount and the Glenister Reddite crown at £400K, now the Ed.VIII sovereign at over half a million. All have set new highs, but then, all are highly desirable and not in ready availability. The commonest being the petition crown, still in single figures for private collectors, the others less common. Is it any surprise with the amount of money sloshing around the system?

[Nordle11]

That makes sense, I suppose it's just a case of waiting for the highly unavailable coins to actually surface for there to be a new 'highest' price set.

From reading the Baldwins introduction into this collection, they mention that it was a decade long endeavour obtaining all of the sovereigns. Is there any reference to the 1937 proof sovereign being sold into the Hemisphere collection? I wonder how much was paid for it then...

[Colin88]

The Edward III gold double leopard would eclipse it I believe if it came back on the market.

It made £460k + juice in 2006

[Rob]

The Edward III gold double leopard would eclipse it I believe if it came back on the market.

It made £460k + juice in 2006

forgot about that one. still desirable though

[azda]

The Edward III gold double leopard would eclipse it I believe if it came back on the market.It made £460k + juice in 2006

£460k including commission? Or hammer plus juice i have the realised price List from the Baldwins auction if you still want it Rob, i can Scan and send over the weekend

[TomGoodheart]

Well, if anyone particularly wants to be known as the owner of the most expensive British coin I'll happily add a few noughts to one of the coins I have listed on eBay?

Just pm me how ridiculously high you'd like to go and I'll do my best to accommodate you.

Edited May 16, 2014 by TomGoodheart

[scottishmoney]

Right now the two priciest coins I still have in my possession are British, rather Scottish. And both are made of gold.

[azda]

Right now the two priciest coins I still have in my possession are British, rather Scottish. And both are made of gold.

Well done you, you must be proud, but i do believe a Scottish coin did hold that record back in the 1970s, a 1576 £20 piece, bought by Spinks Edited May 16, 2014 by azda

[Nicholas]

and yet in the US there are dozens of US coins selling for more than a Million USD each year.

Edited May 16, 2014 by Nicholas

[Peter]

Madness

But the subject matter is all modern (to UK standards).

Plus we seem to still have plenty of Gems going back over 2000 years....Supply and demand?

& each to their own.

[Nicholas]

Personally, I'll take the coenwulf mancus or double leopard every time..and a steal too!!

[rpeddie]

Right now the two priciest coins I still have in my possession are British, rather Scottish. And both are made of gold.

ohh scottish

what ones you got?

[Rob]

My favourite Scottish is a Linkwood.

[scott]

early US coins and the rare issues sell for more then they should.

similar rarity UK coins in the UK market go nowhere near that, perhaps £3-4k for a decent rareity as rare as some of those US ones.

[Nicholas]

Try Australia's own Sullivans Cove single malt.. not bad at all

[Peckris]

Has anyone else seen the blog the Royal Mint released about the 1937 proof sovereign? Apparently it realised £516,000?!

There was also a 1953 proof sovereign which took in £384,000...

They say the Edward VIII sov. is the most expensive British coin ever sold..

Link

I like the BM plans to publish an online catalogue of all the 80,000 coins in their vaults. Edward VIII is a good monarch to start with, but I rather hope they follow it up not with Liz II but perhaps George V or Edward VII or Victoria. Still, I expect it will take some time to accomplish. I wonder if it will be free access or will we have to subscribe to see it?

[Nicholas]

There are a few coins in the BM web site already. The entire collection would be brilliant.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?people=86878&peoA=86878-1-8

[azda]

Has anyone else seen the blog the Royal Mint released about the 1937 proof sovereign? Apparently it realised £516,000?!

There was also a 1953 proof sovereign which took in £384,000...

They say the Edward VIII sov. is the most expensive British coin ever sold..

Link

I like the BM plans to publish an online catalogue of all the 80,000 coins in their vaults. Edward VIII is a good monarch to start with, but I rather hope they follow it up not with Liz II but perhaps George V or Edward VII or Victoria. Still, I expect it will take some time to accomplish. I wonder if it will be free access or will we have to subscribe to see it?

Perhaps a book would be better

[Peckris]

There are a few coins in the BM web site already. The entire collection would be brilliant.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?people=86878&peoA=86878-1-8

Yes, a fantastic resource.

Unfortunately, when I typed in "UK" "Coin" 1700 to 1800, there was a nice good number of items returned, but on Page 1 (I didn't go further) there were only two coins with images, and both were 1754 farthings, one of which I think was a superb silver alloy proof. I tried one of the items without an image and although it took me to the item details I just got the message about "No image, it may be restricted access or copyright issue". That's going to be a real bummer if you can't get to see images.

[Rob]

They allegedly started at the beginning and were working forwards chronologically. Unfortunately, when I was looking for Ed. VI profile groats, most of those designated as Ed. VI were in fact Ed.IV facing bust. I let them know, they said thank you. The tickets are all messed up too, so you can't rely on the accession data either. This was obvious when a 'Montagu' coin according to the accession data was illustrated in the Huth catalogue (1927). Had to put them right on that too. Again they said thank you, but it basically means you have to cross check any data with the coin.

[Nicholas]

Perhaps they'll pay you to be their numismatic consultant.. (Cool job)

[TomGoodheart]

Eaglen certainly suggested that museums might not be as good as collectors when it comes to coin records.

Re-ticketing leading to loss, or even disposal, of earlier tickets. Less than brilliant record keeping ... and of course, as Nick alludes, museum staff are not necessarily numismatists. Or even interested in the coins in their care at all.

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Edited May 17, 2014 by TomGoodheart

[scottishmoney]

Right now the two priciest coins I still have in my possession are British, rather Scottish. And both are made of gold.

Well done you, you must be proud, but i do believe a Scottish coin did hold that record back in the 1970s, a 1576 £20 piece, bought by Spinks

The crazy part of the £ 20 piece is that there are enough of them around that anybody with the means can own one. I own a rarer piece, but one with less interest than the former, but it is still fairly pricey.