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Free guides to collector's coins from the experts at MJ Hughes Coins
The Gold Sovereign and is one of the most ubiquitous of all coins and much sought after by both coin collectors and bullion investors.

What Are Sovereigns?

The Gold Half-Sovereign is a gold coin, being as it suggests, half the value and half of the gold weight of a gold sovereign. Today, the half-sovereign is a commemorative coin, not issued every year and often only collected as part of a set.

What Are Half Sovereigns?

Gold 3-Coin Sets have been made by the Royal Mint since the early 1980's. The 3 coins can vary so you should check the documentation carefully.

What Are 3-Coin Sovereign Sets?

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What Are 4-Coin Sovereign Sets?

The Two Pound (£2) coin is a bimetallic coin introduced in 1998 (although the first are dated 1997). There are almost 500 million £2 coins in current circulation.

What Are Gold £2 Coins?

There are two basic kinds of gold five pound coin: the gold £5 (quintuple sovereign) type and the gold Crown. They are the same weight of gold and vary only slightly in diameter.

What Are Gold £5 Coins?

The Crown is a very old coin, with origins dating back to Henry VIII. The English Crown first appeared in 1526. It had a value of five shillings (a quarter of a pound) but in 1990 was redenominated to £5.

What Are Crowns?

The Guinea is a famous British gold coin minted between 1663 and 1814. It is better known as being worth One Pound and One Shilling (21 shillings).

What Are Guineas?

The Krugerrand is a South African gold coin. Weighing one troy ounce (33.93g), it is one of the World's most famous bullion gold coins. It's price is usually tightly bound to the gold spot price.

What Are Krugerrands?

The Queens Beasts is a series of 10 designs issued by the Royal Mint to represent the ten heraldic statues that were present at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

What Are Queen's Beasts Coins?

The Silver britannia is a bullion coin minted in the UK by the Royal Mint and are the British silver bullion equivalent to the American Silver Eagle dollar or the Canadian Maple Leaf dollar.

What Are Silver Britannias?

The British Fifty Pence (50p) is a 7-sided coin that was introduced in October 1969 as part of the decimalisation of the British currency.

What Are 50p Coins?

The main currency of the UK, the GBP £1 coin replaced the previous £1 banknote in April 1983. The round coin was replaced by a 12-sided one-pound coin in March 2017.

What Are £1 Coins?

The first gold two pound (£2) coins appeared in 1820 for George III but they were only made occasionally (intended for circulation) until 1980 when the Royal Mint started minting them yearly.

What Are £2 Coins?

Royal Mint Proof Sets are available in several versions. They are generally year sets of UK coins, although the coins included may vary between versions.

What Are Annual Proof Sets?

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