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Auction 88  8 May 2014
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Lot 2197

Estimate: 200 GBP
Price realized: 240 GBP
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BRITISH COINS, MILLED GOLD SOVEREIGNS, George V (1910-1936), Gold Sovereign, 1918I, designed by Edgar Bertram Mackennal, bare head left, b.m. on truncation, toothed border and raised rim, georgivs v d: g: britt: omn: rex f: d: ind: imp:, rev struck en médaille, engraved after Benedetto Pistrucci, St George slaying dragon with sword, helmet with three strand streamer, horse with long tail, broken lance on groundline to left, wwp in relief under lance, I mintmark on ground, date in exergue, tiny b.p. to upper right, finely toothed border within twin linear concentric circles and raised rim (Bentley 892; KM 20; Fr 2; Marsh 228; S 3997). Light surface marks, extremely fine.
Total mintage of gold Sovereigns at Bombay = 1,295,372.
This mintage is greater than the whole output of gold sovereigns from the contemporary Canadian mint in Ottawa.
The Royal Mint has licensed a new "India Mint" gold Sovereign dated for 2013 struck by MMTC-PAMP using tools made by the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Wales, with a maximum production total of 50,000 pieces. Not many examples of this new issue have found their way to the UK market-place and the Hemisphere Collection does not contain one.

Estimate: £200-300
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