Australia 1886 Sydney Half Sovereign PCGS AU55

At AU55, this coin is in a group of six with only six finer – all graded PCGS AU58. Click on this text to see the PCGS population.

Australia was shortly to suffer its worse depression since the gold rush had begun in the 1850’s; therefore little surprise that there are no mint state coins. The economic conditions weren’t ideal for collecting. 1886 Sydney was also a relatively small mintage of 82,000.

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