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The sovereign is a British gold coin with a nominal value of one pound sterling (£1) and contains 0.2354 troy ounces (113.0 gr; 7.32 g) of pure gold.Struck since 1817, it was originally a circulating coin that was accepted in Britain and elsewhere in the world; it is now a bullion coin and is sometimes mounted in jewellery.
The vast majority of the coins from the United Kingdom were melted down by the Royal Mint after the King's abdication. Many pattern issues are retained by the Royal Mint Museum, with other surviving coins purchased by private collectors. [2] In 2020, an Edward VIII sovereign sold at auction for £1 million, the most for a British coin. [3]
The Royal Mint realised there was a market for sovereign coins, and began to sell them to collectors at well over face or bullion value. [41] Beginning in 1980, five-pound gold coins were sold every year, except 1983, sometimes in a four-piece proof set with the half sovereign, sovereign and double sovereign, and sometimes sold individually.
"Piloncitos" is a collectors' term for the bead-like gold masa coins [1] [2] used during the aristocratic era of the Philippines and in the early years of Spanish foreign rule, [1] called bulawan ("gold piece") in many Philippine languages or salapi ("coin") or ginto ("gold piece") in Tagalog.
Coat of arms of the Philippines, value 1981 ₱25 38 mm 25 g 50% silver: Reeded Conjoined portraits of US President Ronald Reagan and Ferdinand Marcos, year of minting Coat of arms of the Philippines, "Republika ng Pilipinas", value 1982 ₱25 35 mm 18.41 g: 92.5% silver: Reeded
In 1995, the new BSP Series was introduced, which is still circulating today. Only this current series of coins are legal tender since May 1, 2020, when the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas demonetized the commemorative coins under the Flora and Fauna series. Coins under this series originally included 1, 5, 10 and 25-sentimo, 1-piso and 5-piso.
George V and Queen Mary Silver Jubilee 0.500 silver 1936 2,473 'Wreath' Crown 0.500 silver George VI: 1937 418,699 Coronation 0.500 silver 1951 1,983,540 Festival of Britain Cu/Ni Elizabeth II: 1953 5,962,621 Coronation Cu/Ni 1960 1,024,038 British Exhibition in New York Cu/Ni 1965 19,640,000 Death of Sir Winston Churchill: Cu/Ni
The coins he designed featured Manuel L. Quezon as the Philippines' first Commonwealth President and General Murphy and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A new design for the reverse based on the seal of the Commonwealth he designed was also introduced on those commemoratives, and featured on all Philippine coins minted from 1937 until 1946.