Help ID Old Foreign Gold Coin From 1918 | Sovereign

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Dhughesz28 Valued Member United States 105 Posts	Posted 08/13/2008 10:51 am Hi all, a buddy of mine has this old Gold coin that I am trying to help him identify, please take a look and let me know if you can tell us where it is from. The date is 1918 and the coin is approx. 22mm in diam. dont have a weight sorry. Edited by Sap 08/30/2008 08:33 am Report this Post to the Staff

b2933 New Member Germany 8 Posts	Posted 08/13/2008 11:05 am Seems to be Great Britain. Report this Post to the Staff
DL20K Pillar of the Community Poland 3201 Posts	Posted 08/13/2008 11:35 am Looks like a one sovereign if it's ~22 mm in diameter. Interestingly, there's no British sovereign of 1918. Maybe it's Australian? Edited by DL20K 08/13/2008 11:39 am Report this Post to the Staff
Peter THOMAS Pillar of the Community Australia 2830 Posts	Posted 08/13/2008 11:53 am G'day, it's a sovereign. Look, central just above the date, what letter do you see ? Peter Report this Post to the Staff
Dhughesz28 Valued Member United States 105 Posts	Posted 08/13/2008 12:19 pm Peter, Sorry I'm still new to coin collecting, what is a Sovereign? Also, I looed and there is no letter above the date, but to the right of the date I can see a tiny s.p. Report this Post to the Staff
pattiewhack Pillar of the Community Canada 1152 Posts	Posted 08/13/2008 1:27 pm There is a letter imprinted in the "ground" just above the date and below the dragon. It should be either a "C", "I", "M", "P" or "S" Report this Post to the Staff
Dhughesz28 Valued Member United States 105 Posts	Posted 08/13/2008 2:14 pm I will have to look closer at the coin to see the letter, now that I know where to look. What do the different letters mean, Mint Marks? Report this Post to the Staff
KurtS Pillar of the Community United States 5318 Posts	Posted 08/13/2008 3:53 pm Nice, it appears the choices for 1918 would be "M", "S", or "P"--Melbourne, Sydney, or Perth? Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16861 Posts	Posted 08/13/2008 10:34 pm A "sovereign" is the name given for a gold 1 pound coin. The letters are mintmarks. Sovereigns were struck at various branch mints throughout the British Empire - Australia, Canada, India and South Africa as well as Britain itself. The only mints to issue sovereigns in 1918 were the five listed by pattiewhack: Bombay, India (I mintmark) Ottawa, Canada (C) and the three Australian mints (Melbourne M, Sydney S and Perth P). To me, yours looks like an "I". Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
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