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1857/5 Overdate Half Sovereign

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Probably one of the lesser known Sydney Mint varieties, the 1857/5 Overdate Half Sovereign was first catalogued in the late 1970s in Spink Australia sale 3 (Spink Australia, 1978) , ex the Moran Collection, and appeared later in Noble Numismatics auction 65 (Noble, J, 2000) in November 2000.

The Moran Collection 1857/5 Overdate

The 1857/5 overdate is one of the scarcer overdates in the series though as its existence was only recently popularised, in remains undervalued though the potential for new finds is high offsetting that somewhat. The overdate can be detected by the presence of the loop of the 5 protruding out from the base of the 7 as in the photo below.

The date of the 1857/5 overdate