Hyperpyron

That is a simple, but crucial question 
Generally, I enjoy to live a life a bit under my pay-grade, so I can effectively save money.
Sovereigns, have a bit of a magic aura for me; and they might even carry a bit of family history.  
My great grand father during the mid-war times, used to save always in Sovereigns, due to the high inflation in his country, Greece.
In fact, the family survived the German occupation on stacked Sovereigns (the good old Drachma back then soon became less valued than todays toilet paper), while the neighbors literally starved to death (a significant percentage of the population died on famine back then). 
I still have some pretty old sovereigns from them.  Some in the form of pendants (that seems to be have been a hit in any respectable wife's dowry), or others drilled(!) and chained together on the context of some weird local folk women's uniform piece 🙃
So for me, the Sovereigns are something like between heritage and the last line of defense in times of hardship. I would like to have a certain portion of my wealth on them, they are holy items 😀
But, I certainly do not need any fakes in my stack...

Exactly! This will create problem if/when I will try to sale the coin. First, they might think it is a fake, second, they will try to buy it for less due to the defect.
I already asked for a replacement and they accepted my request. The whole process is somewhat troublesome, but no other option, I have to go through it...
I am a bit irritated, how someone can send a coin like this to a customer, hopping that he won't understand it/complain about it/etc. I am kind of certain they run a quality control upon reception of coins from the Royal Mint or other.
Apparently it is better to buy in person, where you have the ability to inspect the item yourself, but this is not easy (for me, I have to travel to the closest location paying more than post expenses, and pay more than the best price I can find online)
 
Thank you all for your responses, greatly appreciated! 

Exactly! This will create problem if/when I will try to sale the coin. First, they might think it is a fake, second, they will try to buy it for less due to the defect.
I already asked for a replacement and they accepted my request. The whole process is somewhat troublesome, but no other option, I have to go through it...
I am a bit irritated, how someone can send a coin like this to a customer, hopping that he won't understand it/complain about it/etc. I am kind of certain they run a quality control upon reception of coins from the Royal Mint or other.
Apparently it is better to buy in person, where you have the ability to inspect the item yourself, but this is not easy (for me, I have to travel to the closest location paying more than post expenses, and pay more than the best price I can find online)
 
Thank you all for your responses, greatly appreciated! 

Welcome  @Hyperpyron, very nice buy 👍.

Hello and welcome!!
Thank you for telling us your history, it really brings home the reason that many have held sovereigns over time.
I know that, as a couple, we hold them for security for ourselves and wider family, should the need arise.
We hope that they will never be needed and that they can be utilised in time by others.
All is well and I hope that it will remain so 🌞

Fantastic. I hope the stack/ collection grows and looks after you in time 

If in doubt, send it back?

I've had this on a couple of modern sovereigns, like a lip around the edge as though it's been hit with too much pressure or not dead level.

Looks like the die has not hit the planchet dead centre. Probably doesn't qualify as an error and doesn't look great, if possible I'd ask for a replacement.

Unless grading it I would bother asking for a replacement, it's only bullion and worth it's gold value I would certainly ask for a replacement if it were proof finish. 

That is a simple, but crucial question 
Generally, I enjoy to live a life a bit under my pay-grade, so I can effectively save money.
Sovereigns, have a bit of a magic aura for me; and they might even carry a bit of family history.  
My great grand father during the mid-war times, used to save always in Sovereigns, due to the high inflation in his country, Greece.
In fact, the family survived the German occupation on stacked Sovereigns (the good old Drachma back then soon became less valued than todays toilet paper), while the neighbors literally starved to death (a significant percentage of the population died on famine back then). 
I still have some pretty old sovereigns from them.  Some in the form of pendants (that seems to be have been a hit in any respectable wife's dowry), or others drilled(!) and chained together on the context of some weird local folk women's uniform piece 🙃
So for me, the Sovereigns are something like between heritage and the last line of defense in times of hardship. I would like to have a certain portion of my wealth on them, they are holy items 😀
But, I certainly do not need any fakes in my stack...

Mine was a 1915 King George V, just a few days ago, I am rather fresh in the sector

Under light:

 
Diameter and height looks as it should, weight too. I think it is real. Under the microscope, it looks very scratched and damaged thought; to be expected.
 
 
 
 

Mine was a 1915 King George V, just a few days ago, I am rather fresh in the sector

Under light:

 
Diameter and height looks as it should, weight too. I think it is real. Under the microscope, it looks very scratched and damaged thought; to be expected.
 
 
 
 

That is a simple, but crucial question 
Generally, I enjoy to live a life a bit under my pay-grade, so I can effectively save money.
Sovereigns, have a bit of a magic aura for me; and they might even carry a bit of family history.  
My great grand father during the mid-war times, used to save always in Sovereigns, due to the high inflation in his country, Greece.
In fact, the family survived the German occupation on stacked Sovereigns (the good old Drachma back then soon became less valued than todays toilet paper), while the neighbors literally starved to death (a significant percentage of the population died on famine back then). 
I still have some pretty old sovereigns from them.  Some in the form of pendants (that seems to be have been a hit in any respectable wife's dowry), or others drilled(!) and chained together on the context of some weird local folk women's uniform piece 🙃
So for me, the Sovereigns are something like between heritage and the last line of defense in times of hardship. I would like to have a certain portion of my wealth on them, they are holy items 😀
But, I certainly do not need any fakes in my stack...

modo-φάντασμα, in 1942, it started like with 10.000

 
and I think a few weeks after your 5.000.000 note, it came to 100.000.000.000  (100 billion) 😱

yes, the above note say 100 ΔΙΣΕΚΑΤΟΜΜΥΡΙΑ  https://www.wordreference.com/gren/δισεκατομμύριο
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn524903
 
So, as everyone can imagine, one could really appreciate a gold sovereign back then 🙂
 
Anyway, the first sovereign I bought myself is the one cited at the very beginning, and I am really proud of it. Long live the Royal Mint!  😛

That is a simple, but crucial question 
Generally, I enjoy to live a life a bit under my pay-grade, so I can effectively save money.
Sovereigns, have a bit of a magic aura for me; and they might even carry a bit of family history.  
My great grand father during the mid-war times, used to save always in Sovereigns, due to the high inflation in his country, Greece.
In fact, the family survived the German occupation on stacked Sovereigns (the good old Drachma back then soon became less valued than todays toilet paper), while the neighbors literally starved to death (a significant percentage of the population died on famine back then). 
I still have some pretty old sovereigns from them.  Some in the form of pendants (that seems to be have been a hit in any respectable wife's dowry), or others drilled(!) and chained together on the context of some weird local folk women's uniform piece 🙃
So for me, the Sovereigns are something like between heritage and the last line of defense in times of hardship. I would like to have a certain portion of my wealth on them, they are holy items 😀
But, I certainly do not need any fakes in my stack...

Mine was a 1915 King George V, just a few days ago, I am rather fresh in the sector

Under light:

 
Diameter and height looks as it should, weight too. I think it is real. Under the microscope, it looks very scratched and damaged thought; to be expected.
 
 
 
 

That is a simple, but crucial question 
Generally, I enjoy to live a life a bit under my pay-grade, so I can effectively save money.
Sovereigns, have a bit of a magic aura for me; and they might even carry a bit of family history.  
My great grand father during the mid-war times, used to save always in Sovereigns, due to the high inflation in his country, Greece.
In fact, the family survived the German occupation on stacked Sovereigns (the good old Drachma back then soon became less valued than todays toilet paper), while the neighbors literally starved to death (a significant percentage of the population died on famine back then). 
I still have some pretty old sovereigns from them.  Some in the form of pendants (that seems to be have been a hit in any respectable wife's dowry), or others drilled(!) and chained together on the context of some weird local folk women's uniform piece 🙃
So for me, the Sovereigns are something like between heritage and the last line of defense in times of hardship. I would like to have a certain portion of my wealth on them, they are holy items 😀
But, I certainly do not need any fakes in my stack...

Mine was a 1915 King George V, just a few days ago, I am rather fresh in the sector

Under light:

 
Diameter and height looks as it should, weight too. I think it is real. Under the microscope, it looks very scratched and damaged thought; to be expected.
 
 
 
 

modo-φάντασμα, in 1942, it started like with 10.000

 
and I think a few weeks after your 5.000.000 note, it came to 100.000.000.000  (100 billion) 😱

yes, the above note say 100 ΔΙΣΕΚΑΤΟΜΜΥΡΙΑ  https://www.wordreference.com/gren/δισεκατομμύριο
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn524903
 
So, as everyone can imagine, one could really appreciate a gold sovereign back then 🙂
 
Anyway, the first sovereign I bought myself is the one cited at the very beginning, and I am really proud of it. Long live the Royal Mint!  😛

That is a simple, but crucial question 
Generally, I enjoy to live a life a bit under my pay-grade, so I can effectively save money.
Sovereigns, have a bit of a magic aura for me; and they might even carry a bit of family history.  
My great grand father during the mid-war times, used to save always in Sovereigns, due to the high inflation in his country, Greece.
In fact, the family survived the German occupation on stacked Sovereigns (the good old Drachma back then soon became less valued than todays toilet paper), while the neighbors literally starved to death (a significant percentage of the population died on famine back then). 
I still have some pretty old sovereigns from them.  Some in the form of pendants (that seems to be have been a hit in any respectable wife's dowry), or others drilled(!) and chained together on the context of some weird local folk women's uniform piece 🙃
So for me, the Sovereigns are something like between heritage and the last line of defense in times of hardship. I would like to have a certain portion of my wealth on them, they are holy items 😀
But, I certainly do not need any fakes in my stack...

modo-φάντασμα, in 1942, it started like with 10.000

 
and I think a few weeks after your 5.000.000 note, it came to 100.000.000.000  (100 billion) 😱

yes, the above note say 100 ΔΙΣΕΚΑΤΟΜΜΥΡΙΑ  https://www.wordreference.com/gren/δισεκατομμύριο
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn524903
 
So, as everyone can imagine, one could really appreciate a gold sovereign back then 🙂
 
Anyway, the first sovereign I bought myself is the one cited at the very beginning, and I am really proud of it. Long live the Royal Mint!  😛

That is a simple, but crucial question 
Generally, I enjoy to live a life a bit under my pay-grade, so I can effectively save money.
Sovereigns, have a bit of a magic aura for me; and they might even carry a bit of family history.  
My great grand father during the mid-war times, used to save always in Sovereigns, due to the high inflation in his country, Greece.
In fact, the family survived the German occupation on stacked Sovereigns (the good old Drachma back then soon became less valued than todays toilet paper), while the neighbors literally starved to death (a significant percentage of the population died on famine back then). 
I still have some pretty old sovereigns from them.  Some in the form of pendants (that seems to be have been a hit in any respectable wife's dowry), or others drilled(!) and chained together on the context of some weird local folk women's uniform piece 🙃
So for me, the Sovereigns are something like between heritage and the last line of defense in times of hardship. I would like to have a certain portion of my wealth on them, they are holy items 😀
But, I certainly do not need any fakes in my stack...

That is a simple, but crucial question 
Generally, I enjoy to live a life a bit under my pay-grade, so I can effectively save money.
Sovereigns, have a bit of a magic aura for me; and they might even carry a bit of family history.  
My great grand father during the mid-war times, used to save always in Sovereigns, due to the high inflation in his country, Greece.
In fact, the family survived the German occupation on stacked Sovereigns (the good old Drachma back then soon became less valued than todays toilet paper), while the neighbors literally starved to death (a significant percentage of the population died on famine back then). 
I still have some pretty old sovereigns from them.  Some in the form of pendants (that seems to be have been a hit in any respectable wife's dowry), or others drilled(!) and chained together on the context of some weird local folk women's uniform piece 🙃
So for me, the Sovereigns are something like between heritage and the last line of defense in times of hardship. I would like to have a certain portion of my wealth on them, they are holy items 😀
But, I certainly do not need any fakes in my stack...

Mine was a 1915 King George V, just a few days ago, I am rather fresh in the sector

Under light:

 
Diameter and height looks as it should, weight too. I think it is real. Under the microscope, it looks very scratched and damaged thought; to be expected.