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1/4 Sovereign - Charles III Hanoverian Royal Arms
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The Hanoverian Royal Arms of George IV occupy the centre of the field, faithfully reproduced from the reverse die of the early nineteenth-century sovereign coinage. The ornate quartered shield displays the arms of England (three passant guardant lions), Scotland (a rampant lion within a double tressure), Ireland (a harp), and Hanover (incorporating the arms of Brunswick, Luneburg, and Westphalia surmounted by the Crown of Charlemagne), the whole ensigned with the Royal Crown rendered in fine detail. The shield is flanked by elaborate baroque-style scrolled mantling. The circumferential Latin legend ARMA GEORGII IV BRITANNIARUM REGIS is disposed in two arcs to the left and right of the shield within the milled border. |
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The quarter sovereign as a denomination has a fractured history — introduced in 1853 under Victoria, it was quietly dropped after just a few years of production and not meaningfully revived until 2009. The Hanoverian Royal Arms reverse used here draws from the pre-1837 quartered shield, dropped when Victoria's accession severed the personal union with Hanover, since Salic law barred female succession there. Its appearance on a Charles III issue is a deliberate antiquarian choice, not a constitutional one.