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2. Sovereign (British coin) - Wikipedia

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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.

3. List of British banknotes and coins - Wikipedia

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   Gold. Undervalued for its metal content and extremely rare. Quarter noble: 1/8: £0.0833: 1344–1470. Quarter angel: 2/-£0.1: 1547–1600. Gold. Florin or two shillings: 2/-£0.1: 1848–1970, circulated from 1971 to 1993 with a value of ten decimal pence. Not to be confused with the gold medieval florin. [coins 2] Two shillings and twopence ...

4. Quarter sovereign - Wikipedia

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   The quarter sovereign is a British gold bullion and collector's ... sold at a premium to their gold value. [12] ... (1906). Catalogue of the Coins, Tokens, Medals ...

5. Sovereign (English coin) - Wikipedia

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   The sovereign was a gold coin of the Kingdom of England first issued in 1489 under King Henry VII. The coin had a nominal value of one pound sterling, or twenty shillings. The sovereign was primarily an official piece of bullion and had no mark of value on its face. Nonetheless, it was the country's first coin to be valued at one pound.

6. Edward VIII coins - Wikipedia

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   In 2020, an Edward VIII sovereign sold at auction for £1 million, the most for a British coin. [3] On 26 March 2021, a five pound gold coin sold at auction for $2,280,000, surpassing the previous record.

7. Gold standard - Wikipedia

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   The United Kingdom slipped into a gold specie standard in 1717 by over-valuing gold at 15 + 1 ⁄ 5 times its weight in silver. It was unique among nations to use gold in conjunction with clipped, underweight silver shillings, addressed only before the end of the 18th century by the acceptance of gold proxies like token silver coins and banknotes.