Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 2316. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

WINDSOR. George V. 1910-1935. AV Sovereign (12h). Dated 1917. GEORGIVS V D . G . BRITT : OMN : REX F . D . IND : IMP :, bare head left / Pistrucci's St. George and the Dragon; 1917 in exergue. Marsh 219; SCBC 3996. In NGC slab, graded MS64. Fully lustrous. Key date. ($7500)

The war year issues of 1916 and 1917 were scarce to begin with (only a little over 1 million dated 1917) and became even more so after the war, when quantities of sovereigns were expended to pay down the war debt, most going into the melting pots in the United States.