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English Coin Or Medal - Pls Help To Identify (Id: Base Metal Copy Of British Gold Sovereign)

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pkkudaskar
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English-Coin-Or-Medal---Pls-Help-To-Identify-Id:-Base-Metal-Copy-Of-British-Gold-Sovereign

English-Coin-Or-Medal---Pls-Help-To-Identify-Id:-Base-Metal-Copy-Of-British-Gold-Sovereign
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What is the date? I can't make it out, but it looks like 1911...
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This looks like a copy of a British gold sovereign, struck in base metal. This portrait of queen Victoria was used from 1893 until 1901. In 1911 the portrait of king George V was used.
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what diameter & weight, please ?
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I agree not a real Sovereign.
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Coin Diameter is approx 23 mm and it weighs very light.
Can not measure the exact wt.
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Interesting too that it carries a portrait of Victoria, when George V would be on a real sovereign from 1911.
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