Item 0653: South Australian one pound gold coins, 1852
Item 0653: South Australian one pound gold coins, 1852
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Date
1852
Call Numbers
SAFE/DN/C 653
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Physical Description
Contents
1 coin - 22 mm. - gold
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Full title
Item 0653: South Australian one pound gold coins, 1852
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Notes
General note
Forms part of Series 01 Part 08: Sir William Dixson coin collection : Australian Assay Office currency
Digital order no:Album ID : 1003516
Australia, Assay Office.
Gold.
Andrews Number 725.
Pound Piece. 1852. 23mm. Pl 57.
Obverse - In the centre a crown over 1852. The inner circle crenelated inside and beaded outside. Round between it and the beaded rim, GOVERNMENT ASSAY OFFICE above, ADELAIDE below.
Reverse - The second die. Has in the centre VALUE / ONE / POUND in t...
Description source
Numismatic and Philatelic Lists
Published information
Australasian tokens and coins : a handbook / by ... A. Andrews ; issued by the ... Mitchell Library (Sydney : Govt. Printer, 1921.)
The Ingots and Assay Office Pieces of South Australia / by J. Hunt Deacon (Melbourne : Hawthorn Press, [1954?)
Collecting and investing in Australian coins and banknotes / written ... by Greg McDonald (Um...
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SAFE/DN/C 653
Record Identifier
n7oX6Jln
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n7oX6Jln
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Reference code
1011776
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