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Its greater distinction, however, lies beneath the surfaces. Recovered from the wreck of the RMS Douro, lost off the coast of Spain in 1882, this sovereign is a relic of Britain’s global maritime commerce. Coins like this were not abstractions of wealth; they were working instruments of trade, carried across oceans in strongboxes and pockets, vulnerable to both human error and the sea itself.
Graded AU58, the piece balances honest wear with remarkable preservation. Light friction and softly toned gold suggest circulation before catastrophe, giving the coin a tactile sense of use and survival. This is a sovereign defined not by perfection, but by experience—an artifact shaped as much by history as by the dies that struck it.
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