Hi everyone, I have joined this site because i was referred to it by an expert who is unable to help me. Thirty years ago my parents purchased a 1892 gold sovereign for me. This coin was minted in Melbourne. It was purchased at a very well respected coin dealers located in the now demolished luxury Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne. The Coin was then taken to another coin dealer to check it out, weight, etc. Also highly respected in the coin community. All was fine. Yesterday my parents gave this coin to me as a late x-christmas present. Of course I had waited so long for it that i had to check it out on the internet. What I discovered horrified me because it may be fake but so far everything is pointing to a really rare now instead. Today i have been to three coin dealers and a gold dealer (I do not know if these people are associated or belong to an accredited group though. All of these people informed me that the coin was real, the weight and 22 carot correct, I repeatedly asked if they were sure and they were. Then I let them know the big surprise and that is that this 1892 gold sovereign does not have a "jubille" head of Queen Victoria as it should, it has a "old" Queen Victoria head with her vail. This "older Queen Victoria was produced a year later in 1893. All of a sudden each person I showed the coin to today claimed it as a fake. But they could give me no other reason as to why it was fake other then the different head. I have spoken with another coin dealer over the phone, actually this dealer is considered to be one of the oldest and most respected dealers in Melbourne and he told me coins were made like this in 1892 at the London Mint and are very rare (I can not find any information about them on the net) and he would not rule out the possibitlity of this rare coin minted in Melbourne, nor would the Australian Mint which i also contacted. I know that the drawings of the "old" Qween Victoria head were finished in November of 1892. I am wondering if i have something extremely rare, an early proof maybe, I dunno anything about coins. I now live in the United States, in San francisco and do not wish to send the coin away, especially back to Australia. Would any one be able to give me some more information about this if they know something, or be able to recommended a place in San Francisco, not a coin dealer, but perhaps a coin meseum or something like that where i could go to get some more help. Thanks for reading, Dvana