Question regarding a Gibraltar gold coin

[ShineyMagpie]

Hello,

I'm still new to this forum so hopefully this is the right place to post.

I have a coin I am trying to find some more information about. It's a 1990 21st aniversary of the constitution, gold coin from gibraltar, it weighs 2.15 grams. I cannot find any more information about it so hopefully some might be able to give me some more.

Thanks for taking the time to read this hope to hear from you.

Shiney Magpie

[PansPurse]

Hi,

I suspect that it's a quarter "sovereign" by the London Mint. That's not the Royal Mint but rather a company that produces a lot of commemorative coins that it then sells for much more than the coin's spot value and tend to use slightly predatory advertising practices IMHO).

I don't think there's a huge secondary market for their coins, unfortunately (although some of the designs are quite pretty).

On a basic gold content front, it's probably 22 carat so the spot value will be somewhere in the £60 range.

[ShineyMagpie]

Thankyou for your reply PansPurse, I have attached a picture of the coin, it seems to be based on the 1 crown coin. However it has " M x M " in its place on the reverse.

[PansPurse]

1 hour ago, ShineyMagpie said:

Thankyou for your reply PansPurse, I have attached a picture of the coin, it seems to be based on the 1 crown coin. However it has " M x M " in its place on the reverse.

I'm not 100% sure on that. Most crowns had Pistrucci's George and the Dragon on the reverse. THe MXM" is presumably the initials of the artist for this piece.

Incidentally I had a similar piece that I sold on the forum recently:

[Roy]

MXM is 1990 in Roman numerals?

No it's not! 😁

[ShineyMagpie]

Ahh yes thanks Roy had not though of that.

[PansPurse]

Google says it'd be MCMXC, but wouldn't put it past the London Mint to not be fully up to speed on their Latin...

[KevinFlynn]

I will not be very helpful here and say that I like this coin... beautiful play on the Britannia figure...

May I ask what a crown is?

[ShineyMagpie]

This is a similar coin I found while trying to find more information on my one. 

A crown is old pre decimal British money.

[Murph]

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces34129.html

is a CuNi one.

[KitboyE17]

12 hours ago, KevinFlynn said:

May I ask what a crown is?

5 bob. (5 shillings)

1/2 a crown was 2 n 6 (2 shillings and 6 pence)

 

[xthomasx]

The 22nd anniversary of said Constitution, the 23rd, the 24th etc. would give a nice date run...

Seriously: What an obvious and indecent attempt to milk unsuspecting buyers.

I would keep my purse tightly shut whenever I came across a Crown, any Crown. After decimalization, that is.

[ShineyMagpie]

Murph just to clarify the coin I was asking about is a much smaller gold coin. Just the design of the "crown" coin is similar.

[Wackattak924]

Quick search shows that it is from the pobjoy mint. Found an ended auction but couldn't find the coin anywhere else.

[ilovesilverireallydo]

On 25/01/2019 at 09:01, Wackattak924 said:

Quick search shows that it is from the pobjoy mint. Found an ended auction but couldn't find the coin anywhere else.

 

It is a pobjoy mint issue. The auctioned version is the the 2nd largest size they did I believe, the 8.3gm. The one the question is about is the 2.1gm. 

Still worth mostly spot. 

 

[ShineyMagpie]

Thanks for the help and information, can't find anything exact about it but it's one of thoese it is what it is coins.