Chris99a

I was just wondering if anyone knew if silver wore faster in general circulation if exposed to similar treatment as sterling silver or when it was debased to .500. I am just curious because the .500 silver coins I tend to come across generaly exibit allot of signs of ware. does a higher or lower silver content effect a coins life in circulation?

why were sovereigns only issued as proof from 1983-99 without bullion issyes but from 1957-82 and 2000-date, both types have been issued. did the mint attempt to move away from bullion to sell proofs or did demand faulter over this time?

thanks

is the 10`500 full mintage including or  excluding the sets?

I was suprised by the mintages and the formate to by them for example the 0.25, 2 and 5 only being availible in sets of suprisingly low mintages with thw half sovereign and full being the only coins issued seperatly and the half having such a low individual mintage but the full sovereign seemingly about the only coin anyone had a fair chance of getting hold of with 10500 plus sets (aprox 4 times the half and 17 times as many as the gold 5 pound sovereign) was any one else suprised? just seemespretty limited numbers except the full compared to past availibilty

I have only recently got more interested in gold coins, before it was mainly historic silver coins so I have never really paid that much attention to sovereign releases as they come out till this year, so is there any set pattern to the bullion release time e.g. is it brought out on the same day as the proof or is it typicaly later, does it change year on year? 

any news/ guesses if the bullion coin will be the one year shield pattern or the standars George and the Dragon e.g. do you think the proof coin only will have the special design. also will the bullion coin go live at the same time. its just I only want to go proof if the bullion is not the one off design

thanks!

it is odd that they have only just decided in the past few years that information they have allways issued is now sensative. why do you think that could be. e.g exceptionaly high or low figgures that could cause demand fluctuation of released maybe or governmental gold stocks of soverwigns being built up so figgures may not be released as they would be controdictuary? its very odd in all honesty

hi I was just wondering if anyone had the bullion mintages for the 2015-21 (5th head) sovereigns and the 2020-21 bullion double sovereign mintages as I cannot find anything. even aproximate numbers would be a help eg maxium numbers or estimates just cannot find anything online 

many thanks 

also sorry half sovereigns 2015-21 should have been there too

so did the Royal Mint issue both types or were the shield types only issued by collonial mints?

so the royal mint is not thought to have continued with the shield after 1871, just the collonial mints? 

also Britain had strong trade links with Asia after 1887 so it was a strange decision to abandon the shield after then, or would the Hong Kong trade dollar have been more widely used instead after this point possibly?

hi, I was just wondering why the Royal and Colonial mints started issuing St George sovereigns from 1871 but also continued to issue the shield back coins each year until the effigy redesign to the Jubilee Head in 1887 rather than just replacing the shield backs with the newer St George Patter. also most the sources I have found have included a combined mintage figgure for both types, I was wonder also if separate design mintages existed and are accessible?

many thanks

Does anyone know if the Tudor Beasts series will only be issued as proof or will bullion grade also be issued? alao I noticed allor od the beats are repeated from the Queens series, does anyone know if they will be re-designed or just streight re-issues from the previous sereis?

its looking like bullion by post are taking pre orders for the bullion sovereign so seems like a bulliin grade will be issued. hoping it will be the arms version

thanks I was thinking similar things 

1989, 2016, 2017- proof only but non jubillee issues 

2002, 2012 jubliee issues in bullion.

the only oddity is 2004 issued in bullion but non jubilee based. 

my only concern was that with 2 special issues in a row being non bullion I was just wondering if the mint may have unofficaly sneeked it in that one year types would only be proif but I think theres a higher chance if this being bullion than other issues in all honesty. I hope so as I dont buy proof

hi, I was just wondering if there was any news on the 2022 bullion sovereign. from what I'v hear the proof sovereign will be issued next year and feature the royal arms but what about the bullion one? will ot also have the arms, or the standard design maybe with a privy mark. or does anyone thing a bullion sovereign may not be issued at all to ensure highest levels of sales from the more expensive proof versions?

thanks for the replies everyone. I have some other coins with different alignments, all young head Victoria`s, I dont think the alignement is anything special on these but just to check, they are all medal alignments so heads 180 degrees diferance to tails: 

1883 half crown 

1880 half crown 

1886 florin

1881 shilling 

1873 shilling (I think I read this was meant to be a coin alignment?)

1873 threepence 

anything different to what it should be there? Alignments are not my area, thanks in advance for replies  

I have managed to attach a photo. on the left is a standard half sovereign, and on the right is the full sovereign in question, both placed in the same position in the coin capsules, with St George full straight on the other side 

Just now, Chris99a said:

I am struggling to attach photos, it keeps saying too large to send but if you put a sovereign fully streight in a square capule on the side with St George, the turned it over Victoria would be at a 45 degree angle facing downwards so turned to the right 

the bottom right corner of the vail would be nearly half way up the coin

5 minutes ago, CollectorNo1 said:

Can you post photos showing the error?Split photo obverse and reverse ..side by side?

I am struggling to attach photos, it keeps saying too large to send but if you put a sovereign fully streight in a square capule on the side with St George, the turned it over Victoria would be at a 45 degree angle facing downwards so turned to the right 

its a 1896 M 

should have mentioned

Does an error sovereign add or decrease value from the coin? I have recently purchsed an old head sovereign and initaly thought it was a very good aunc coin. then I put it into a coin capsual and noticed when the reverse was perfectly streight in the capsule, the queens head was at a 45 degree angle to the right oposed to it being streight too. does this effect the value/ appeal of the coin? Speaking for myself its a put off but I dont know what the market rule on such errors is. I have tried attaching an image but I'm new here and did not manage it

thanks in advance everyone