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sovereign-2019

The Royal Mint celebrates the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s birth with a special Strike on the Day Sovereign

The special 2019 edition of the Sovereign to mark Queen Victoria’s 200th anniversary since birth. (Image courtesy of The Royal Mint.)
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May 24 marked exactly 200 years after Queen Victoria’s birth

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Canada: Nostalgic gold and silver coins remember 110 years since the inauguration of the Royal Canadian Mint

The Royal Canadian Mint has released new collector coins which take a look back to the year in which the Mint itself was launched as the official provider of circulation coins for Canada, which began with the minting of the iconic gold sovereign coin.
The British gold sovereign was one of the world’s most famous gold coins of the modern era and the flagship coin of the Royal Mint in the United Kingdom

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United Kingdom: Bullion quality gold sovereign coins for 2018 launched

The Royal Mint have launched (13th December) their gold sovereign and half sovereign coins dated 2018 which are struck specially for the bullion market. The Bullion strike is an Uncirculated and detailed version of the classic sovereign coin and differs somewhat from the select Brilliant Uncirculated and Proof versions usually marketed as presentation pieces or as collector’s coins

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New World Record Price for a Tudor Coin Achieved at Spink

On 18th December 2014, Spink London sold two superb gold Tudor Sovereigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII for a combined price of £732,000 (incl. premium). As a result Spink now hold the new world record for the highest price realised for a Tudor coin at auction. Victor of the Battle of Bosworth, Henry VII, […]

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