Australian Sovereign Book/ Guide

bjacoins · June 04, 2014, 12:49:23 PM

Hi all,

Can anyone suggest a good book/ guide about Australian Sovereigns and Half's.

Cheers

bja.

drakesterling · June 04, 2014, 02:43:51 PM

"The Gold Sovereign" and "The Gold Half Sovereign" by Michael Marsh are good, and, if you're a beginner, the "Sovereign" by Andrew Crellin. Get a Quartermaster Auction catalogue for illustrations of the different types, and a Greg McDonald and Spink for a list of the varieties.

ausjack · June 04, 2014, 02:49:01 PM

There's gotta be a market for all this info in one book but then I suppose you'd then need a crane to get it around

wwwww · June 05, 2014, 12:14:54 AM

Add the Downies' RBA sale catalogue to that, it's great for statistics to get approximate survival counts.

echidna · June 05, 2014, 10:06:14 AM

Quote from: 'wwwww' pid='51271' dateline='1401893094'Add the Downies' RBA sale catalogue to that, it's great for statistics to get approximate survival counts.

I've been looking for an RBA sale catalogue .
If anyone has one to sell or knows of one please PM me.

wwwww · June 05, 2014, 08:48:27 PM

Have you tried asking Downies?

Here's their order form:
http://www.downies.com/aca/images/rba-brochure.pdf

kchan1111 · April 20, 2015, 01:42:22 PM

Just picked up a copy of the Quartermaster auction catalogue as suggested by this thread. Woow a very nicely produced book in itself.

Goldseeker · April 20, 2015, 02:57:28 PM

But wasn't the Quartermaster Collection sold off some time ago?

nealeffendi · April 20, 2015, 02:57:37 PM

Dr David Briggs has recently published a number of tomes on various Australian coins (I purchased the one on the silver coins and it is the best one by far on the subject). I think he will be issuing one on the gold coins soon so that will be one to consider.
I know Universal coins sells some of his books so they will likely be a supplier.

kchan1111 · April 20, 2015, 07:19:24 PM

Quote from: 'Goldseeker' pid='70988' dateline='1429507648'But wasn't the Quartermaster Collection sold off some time ago?

Yes. Yes it was. I wanted a copy as a reference.

Quote from: 'nealeffendi' pid='70989' dateline='1429507657'Dr David Briggs has recently published a number of tomes on various Australian coins (I purchased the one on the silver coins and it is the best one by far on the subject). I think he will be issuing one on the gold coins soon so that will be one to consider.
I know Universal coins sells some of his books so they will likely be a supplier.

Pretty steep price. Wish I can have a browse first.

nealeffendi · April 21, 2015, 06:26:26 PM

The price is pretty steep but the silver book is full colour and bigger/thicker than Renniks so even this stingy bugger felt it was money well spent (I presume the gold book would be as good). No copies in the libraries so you need to find another collector to give you a peek.

Mister T · April 21, 2015, 07:02:52 PM

Quote from: 'nealeffendi' pid='70989' dateline='1429507657'Dr David Briggs has recently published a number of tomes on various Australian coins (I purchased the one on the silver coins and it is the best one by far on the subject). I think he will be issuing one on the gold coins soon so that will be one to consider.
I know Universal coins sells some of his books so they will likely be a supplier.

Where did you source the silver book?

kchan1111 · April 21, 2015, 08:34:11 PM

Can't find it on their website. There is only the copper one. Sold out??

nealeffendi · April 22, 2015, 06:36:52 PM

I sourced the silver book direct from the doctor. From what I can work out the books will have bigger updated editions (with minor typos etc corrected) in the near future. I think they sell out fast as there is a low mintage of perhaps only 100 copies and are intended for the hard core collector.

Mister T · April 22, 2015, 07:31:16 PM

Shame that the best books that have been written on predecimal coins in a long while are so hard to come by...