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 British Historical Coins Used in South Africa 

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 1820 

 Gold 1 Sovereign 

George III Great Britain

AU 58 (Almost Uncirculated)

 Slabbed Coins - Graded and Certified by NGC and PCGS.

 1820 Great Britain Sovereign, 

used historically in South Africa at the time of the British occupation.   

 Description:

1820 Great Britain Gold 1 Sovereign  AU 58 - NGC Slabbed 

The amount of graded coins comes from the NGC ( Numismatic Guarantee Company ) Population Report. In recent times slabbed population statistics have contributed, to a large degree, in assisting to determine quantities produced, as well as, the quality and varieties of slabbed and graded proof coins available to collectors.

Details:

Sovereigns were discontinued after 1604, being replaced by Unites, and later by Laurels, and then guineas. Production of sovereigns restarted in 1817. The initial reverse type for gold coins was the shield and crown motif, supplemented on the sovereign with a heraldic wreath. This was succeeded by a portrayal of Saint George killing a dragon, engraved by Benedetto Pistrucci. This same design is still in use on British gold sovereigns, although other reverse designs have also been used during the reigns of William IV, Victoria, George IV, and Elizabeth II.

Original sovereigns were 23 carat (95.83%) gold and weighed 240 grains or one-half of a troy ounce (15.552 grams). Henry VIII reduced the purity to 22 carats (91.67%), which eventually became and remains the gold coin standard (so-called crown gold) in both England and the U.S.; the weight of the sovereign was repeatedly lowered until when it was revived after the Great Recoinage law of 1816, the gold content was fixed at the present 113 grains (7.322 g), equivalent to 0.2354 Troy ounces.

^{It is estimated that only 1% of all gold sovereigns that have ever been minted are still in collectable condition. In 1891 a proclamation was made that members of the general public could hand in any gold coins that were underweight and have them replaced by full weight coins.}

South Africa experienced a transformation between 1870, when the diamond rush to Kimberley began, and 1902, when the Anglo Boer War ended. Midway between these dates, in 1886, the world’s largest goldfields were discovered on the Witwatersrand. Societies of European South Africa began to urbanize and industrialize, the region evolved into a major supplier of precious minerals to the world economy; gold especially was urgently needed to back national currencies and ensure the continued flow of expanding international trade. British colonies, Boer republics, and African kingdoms all came under British control. These dramatic changes were propelled by two linked forces: the development of a capitalist mining industry and a sequence of imperialist interventions by Britain.

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1820 Gold 1 Sovereign 

George III Great Britain

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George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death.