Description

Australian Gold Coinage 1853-1931.

1861 Half Sovereign.

Sydney Mint reverse, Victoria 1857-66. Type 2.

Mintage: 186,000.

Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria facing left and wearing a wreath of banksia which is plaited.

Engraver: Leonard Charles Wyon.

Legend: VICTORIA D:G: BRITANNIAR:REG:F:D: 1861

Reverse: At centre within a laurel wreath AUSTRALIA under a royal crown; above, SYDNEY MINT; below, HALF SOVEREIGN.

Gold, 0.917, 3.976g, 19mm, edge milled.

Catalogue: KM#3.

Grade: gVF+

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