Full list of Sotd(s)

[refero]

i thought that might be useful for the community (and for myself too, in case i missed or misunderstood something) as i read more and more comments about Sotds..

2012

-           02-06                           Diamond Jubilee                                                                        Mintage 2012

2013

-          02-06                           60th Coronation anniversary.                                                    Mintage 2013

-          22-07                           Prince George’s birth

 

2014

-          22-07                           Prince George 1st birthday

 

2015

-          02-05                           Princess Charlotte’s birth

-          22-07                           Prince George 2nd birthday

 

2016

-          11-06                           QE II’ 90th birthday

 

2017

-          06-02                           Sapphire Jubilee (65th reign anniversary)                          Mintage 650

-          01-07                           Sovereign 200th anniversay.                                                Mintage 1793

-          20-11                           Platinum wedding (70th wedding anniversary)                  Mintage 745

 

2018

-          02-06                           Coronation 65th anniversary                                              Mintage 650

-          22-07                           “The progress of a prince”. Prince George 5th birthday  Mintage 750

 

2019

-          24-05                           Queen Victoria 200th birthday anniversary                         Mintage 650

-          26-08                           Prince Albert 200th birthday anniversary                             Mintage 650

 

2020

-          31-01                           Brexit Portcullis                                                                               Mintage 1500

-          08-05                           V-day in Europe 75th anniversary                                            Mintage 750

-          15-08                           End of war 75th anniversary      

 

2021

-          12-06                           QEII 95th birthday

 

2022

-          06-02                           QEII Platinum Jubilee                                                                    Mintage 1200

 

2023

-          06-05                           KCIII Coronation                                                                              Mintage 1260

 

 

 

Edited May 10, 2023 by refero

[Orpster]

Great information thanks

@Touvex

[CheetahX]

SOTD 2021 QEII 95th Birthday: For this historic event, The Royal Mint will strike a limited number of Sovereigns – just 1,295 – on 21 April 2021, exactly 95 years on from Her Majesty’s birth. The obverse will bear the instantly recognisable portrait of The Queen, while the St George and the dragon design by Benedetto Pistrucci will appear on the reverse. For this year only, the classic design is joined by an exclusive ‘95’ crown privy mark created for this historic occasion.

[CaptCaveMan]

Isn't there also a 2012 SOTD relating to the QE II Diamond Jubilee?

[CaptCaveMan]

Struck on 2nd June 2012 the first day of the Diamond Jubilee,
Mintage: 2,012
Finish: Brilliant Uncirculated
Reverse features a modern St George designed by Paul Day

[dvl]

Based on what we witnessed in the last 24h with price of Coronation SOTD on the secondary market do you guys think that Platinum Jubilee SOTD will also increase further given the lower MCM (1210)? 

[Touvex]

On 25/04/2023 at 10:53, Orpster said:

Great information thanks

@Touvex

Thank you mate!

Very useful indeed.

Does anyone have info on which ones are plain edge?

I believe it’s only from 2017 - but not sure if 2017 only had 1 inches plain edge for the 200tj sovereign anniversary? 

[Touvex]

22 hours ago, dvl said:

Based on what we witnessed in the last 24h with price of Coronation SOTD on the secondary market do you guys think that Platinum Jubilee SOTD will also increase further given the lower MCM (1210)? 

What happened? Have they shot up in price already?

[westminstrel]

10 hours ago, Touvex said:

Thank you mate!

Very useful indeed.

Does anyone have info on which ones are plain edge?

I believe it’s only from 2017 - but not sure if 2017 only had 1 inches plain edge for the 200tj sovereign anniversary? 

As far as I know, prior to 2017, the most recent plain edge was the KG VI Sovereign set of 1937.

The QE II Pattern Proof Sovereign of 1953 and the QE II VIP Proof Sovereign of 1976 both had, I believe, reeded edges.

[westminstrel]

From 2017 onwards, all the SotDs had plain edges.

The 2017 Sapphire Jubilee SotD and the 2017 Platinum Anniversary SotD had reeded edges with different number of “mills”.

[GoldDiggerDave]

Worth  knowing with some of these sold way less than the mintage figures making some of these extremely low population. They only sold 485 2018 George's 5th Birth SOTD sovereigns.  

This is my favourite SOTD as its an unmilled, George and Dragon, un tattooed, proof sovereign in everything but name!

 

 

https://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/mintage-figures/2018-dated-uk-commemorative-coin-sales/

Edited April 27, 2023 by GoldDiggerDave

[refero]

On 25/04/2023 at 13:04, CaptCaveMan said:

Struck on 2nd June 2012 the first day of the Diamond Jubilee,
Mintage: 2,012
Finish: Brilliant Uncirculated
Reverse features a modern St George designed by Paul Day

i always thought "SotDs" started on 2013. and that the 2012 Diamond Jubilee was not a Sotd but "just" a brilliant uncirculed

[GoldDiggerDave]

There are  some inaccuracies in the reported mintage figure for these coins, even RM sales figures don’t match the mintages in Marsh.  If you look at the 2018 George’s 5th birthday RM sales 485, Marsh only 457 minted.

 

Im hoping to meet Steve Hill in person and got loads of questions to ask him, this will be one of them, I presume the Marsh mintage figures are the updated one as marsh is the accepted standard we all work from. 

[GoldDiggerDave]

Just thinking  out loud if RM reported sales of 485 yet marsh is 457 a difference of 28 and this could have been returns that were scrapped, and Marsh was updated to reflect this.  

Edited April 27, 2023 by GoldDiggerDave

[westminstrel]

3 hours ago, GoldDiggerDave said:

Just thinking  out loud if RM reported sales of 485 yet marsh is 457 a difference of 28 and this could have been returns that were scrapped, and Marsh was updated to reflect this.  

I’m wondering how they ended up with less than the max mintage because all these SotDs were sold out, meaning they were definitely struck.

As you suggest, does the RM scrap (melt down?) returns rather than resell them at current market prices?

Edited April 27, 2023 by westminstrel

[Midasfrog]

14 hours ago, refero said:

i always thought "SotDs" started on 2013. and that the 2012 Diamond Jubilee was not a Sotd but "just" a brilliant uncirculed

 

[westminstrel]

Until 2017, all the SotDs were BU strikes.

The 2017 200th Anniversary of the Sovereign SotD was also classed as a BU, but it was quite obviously a proof strike. They just couldn’t call it that because customers would be mad that another, more limited proof 2017 Sovereign got released.

[kimchi]

On 27/04/2023 at 13:07, westminstrel said:

I’m wondering how they ended up with less than the max mintage because all these SotDs were sold out, meaning they were definitely struck.

As you suggest, does the RM scrap (melt down?) returns rather than resell them at current market prices?

The 2018 Sapphire Coronation (Marsh and others - I assume they use those figures - say 323, which is a very definite number, I'd love to know where that figure comes from @GoldDiggerDave!) was a strange case. It 'sold out' fairly quickly at the Mint, but not by the crazy standards we've seen since 2019. It wasn't that hard to get them from certain dealers that are not so commonly mentioned on here. The problem was the caps, all came off in transit, in some cases causing damage. Because there was no problem getting replacements from the aforementioned sources I returned a handful before I got ones I was 100% happy with, but in hindsight I was being super picky because of the capsule problem, and wish I'd kept one or two more, as I now believe this one is a 'name your price' coin (or soon will be, within reason of course - personally I'm holding long-term).

No idea what happened to all the returns, or why the stated mintage is so low. Maybe the company I dealt with sold them at discount to their employees (they were pretty clueless) and the actual mintage is higher than Marsh thinks (?).

Edited April 28, 2023 by kimchi

[kimchi]

18 hours ago, westminstrel said:

Until 2017, all the SotDs were BU strikes.

The 2017 200th Anniversary of the Sovereign SotD was also classed as a BU, but it was quite obviously a proof strike. They just couldn’t call it that because customers would be mad that another, more limited proof 2017 Sovereign got released.

The last time I looked the Mint said that BUs are struck 3 times, and Proofs are struck up to 6 (and of course you would expect more attention to the dies, and to QC although we know that can be hit and miss to say the least). Whether that's actually the case or not I've no idea. With the 2017 I agree it's indistinguishable in quality (and the 'error' CoA didn't help! 🤣 ). So I think we can put that down to the Mint making them just like a Proof - the error Cert certainly suggests some serious internal confusion!

My 2018 Sapphire Coronations are a bit different, definitely almost proof, but a lighter strike. Slightly more subtle (less contrast) than a full proof, very elegant in a way, and that's why it's one of the favourite modern Sovs I have (most eye appeal for me)

I only have the 2017 and 2018 so can't really comment on any others, except that I just personally wasn't attracted to the Mattes.

Edited April 28, 2023 by kimchi

[GoldDiggerDave]

@kimchi any sovereign with a tiny mintage will be worth a fortune at some point in history, just hope it happens with these SOTD’s in my lifetime.

 

 

[GoldDiggerDave]

22 hours ago, Midasfrog said:

 

A gem mate!  

[Cornishfarmer]

12 hours ago, kimchi said:

The 2018 Sapphire Coronation (Marsh and others - I assume they use those figures - say 323, which is a very definite number, I'd love to know where that figure comes from @GoldDiggerDave!) was a strange case. It 'sold out' fairly quickly at the Mint, but not by the crazy standards we've seen since 2019. It wasn't that hard to get them from certain dealers that are not so commonly mentioned on here. The problem was the caps, all came off in transit, in some cases causing damage. Because there was no problem getting replacements from the aforementioned sources I returned a handful before I got ones I was 100% happy with, but in hindsight I was being super picky because of the capsule problem, and wish I'd kept one or two more, as I now believe this one is a 'name your price' coin (or soon will be, within reason of course - personally I'm holding long-term).

No idea what happened to all the returns, or why the stated mintage is so low. Maybe the company I dealt with sold them at discount to their employees (they were pretty clueless) and the actual mintage is higher than Marsh thinks (?).

I have 2 of these but when I took out to list they had a lot of frosting missing and didn’t look fit enough to list so didn’t.       If I ended up with 2 like it I expect a lot of others were the same. Could be only 150 or so in perfect condition 

[refero]

edited by adding 2012 Sotd

[GoldDiggerDave]

A few SOTD’s for the post, you will see the difference in the attribution from MS70DPL to MS70MATTE

[AR03]

3 hours ago, GoldDiggerDave said:

A few SOTD’s for the post, you will see the difference in the attribution from MS70DPL to MS70MATTE

Are they doing the coronation sovereign for VIP tours? Or is it the Britannia 2023 as advertised?