1887 Jubilee Head Half Sovereign, Sydney Mint (Normal J.E.B)
COIN
1887 Jubilee Head Half Sovereign, Sydney Mint (Normal J.E.B), ex Quartermaster Collection
QUALITY
Choice Uncirculated
PROVENANCE
The famed Quartermaster Collection
PRICE
$7000
COMMENTS
This superb Jubilee Half Sovereign reflects the Barrie Winsor touch. And the Quartermaster aspirations to acquire the very best.
Choice Uncirculated with superb details , unblemished edges and smooth fields, the coin was acquired from the Reserve Bank of Australia Auction held in 2005.
STATUS
Available now
1887 - and what a year it was. The estimated population of Australia was 2,881,362 with New South Wales and Victoria almost neck and neck, each with just over 1 million inhabitants. Western Australia, the last penal colony to be settled, had 43,820 inhabitants. Gas bath heaters were introduced in Australian homes and the Horse tramway started in Ballarat.
Queensland's railways reached the New South Wales border at Wallangarra and the Chaffey Brothers made an agreement with the South Australian Government to establish an irrigation system at Renmark.
CONTACT
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