MS70 MATTE SOTD |Elizabeth II (1952 -), gold Sovereign, 2017, Garter design, strike on the day, crowned head right, JC initials below for designer Jody Clark, Latin legend and toothed border surrounding, ELIZABETH II. DEI. GRA. REG. FID. DEF., rev. St. George and Dragon right within garter inscribed with motto HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE, BP initials on ground line below horse for designer Benedetto Pistrucci, edge plain (Marsh 348; S.C12A). As struck, graded by NGC as MS70 MATTE.
NGC Certification 6380641-001.
Calendar Year Mintage 1,817.
The Latin legend translates as "Queen Elizabeth the second, by the grace of God, Defender of the Faith", Old French translation on reverse "shame on he who thinks ill of it", motto of the British chivalric Order of the Garter.
(£700-£800)