Owner Comments:
Composition: Gold (.9167)
Weight: 7.99 g
Diameter: 22.05 mm
Thickness: 1.52 mm
Medal Alignment ↑↑
Milled
KM#820
AGW: 0.2354 oz AGW
Obverse:
Uncrowned portrait of King George V left, legend around him saying “Georgivs V D.G.BRITT:OMN:REX F.D.IND:IMP:”, which feels like an extremely complicated, shorthand for “George the Fifth, by the Grace of God, King of all the Britains, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.” The engraver was Edgar Bertram MacKennal.
Reverse:
St George riding a horse, wearing a helmet and cape, holding a sword in his right hand, the reigns of the horse in his left, slaying a dragon below him with a ground line. The date is below the ground line. Where there are mint marks, the mint mark is in the middle of the ground line. C is for Ottawa in Canada. I is for the Mumbai mint in India. M is for the Melbourne mint in Australia. A P indicates the Perth min and S indicates the Sydney mint. SA is for the Pretoria min in South Africa. Because the sun apparently never set on the British Empire or the Royal Mint. The Designer for the reverse was Benedetto Pistrucci.
I bought this coin as my first gold sovereign, as part of a continuing effort to build a type set of some world gold coins from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mostly pre-WWI.