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Carded 2012 gold 'full' Sovereign from The Royal Mint. This collectable UK investment coin features the one-year-only Diamond Jubilee design on the reverse, created to celebrate 60 years since Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne. The engraving, created by Paul Day, is a reinterpretation of Benedetto Pistrucci's classic Saint George and the dragon design, created for the first modern Sovereigns. Day's St George is dressed like a crusader and pushes his lance down from his position on horseback towards the snarling mouth of a winged dragon, which curls around the surface of the coin. This popular design is paired with Ian Rank-Broadley's portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. This 22-carat gold bullion coin comes in the original Royal Mint pull-out sleeve, the Sovereign protected by a built-in capsule.
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Ian Rank-Broadley's portrait of Queen Elizabeth II features on the obverse of this collectable UK coin, which has a legend around it reading 'ELIZABETH ∙ II ∙ DEI ∙ GRA REGINA ∙ FID ∙ DEF ∙'.
The reverse of this gold Sovereign features a one-off Saint George and the dragon design created by Paul Day to celebrate Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee. Day's engraving fills the available space on the coin and shows England's patron saint in armour on horseback.
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This Sovereign is struck with The Royal Mint's bullion standard finish in 7.98 grams of 22-carat gold (0.2354 troy ounces) and measures 22.05 millimetres from milled edge to milled edge.
The Royal Mint appears to have minted and released 432,925 gold Sovereigns in 2012 after setting an unlimited maximum mintage on these special design gold coins.
We are supplying this pre-owned gold coin sealed in the original printed card pull-out sleeve with the coin securely encapsulated inside for protection.
