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1 Sovereign - George V Enhanced portrait
| Issuer | Royal Mint, Melbourne / Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 1929-1931 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#32 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The classic St. George and the Dragon design by Benedetto Pistrucci, depicting a nude armoured St. George on horseback, his flowing cloak billowing behind him, thrusting a broken lance downward into a writhing dragon beneath the horse's hooves. The composition fills the entire field in high relief. The date appears in the exergue, flanked by the mint mark to the left and Pistrucci's initials B.P. to the right. The design continues the Pistrucci tradition used on British gold sovereigns since 1817. |
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The "enhanced portrait" of George V — modified from Bertram Mackennal's original effigy — was introduced across Commonwealth mints in the late 1920s to address complaints that the king's features had become poorly defined on circulating strikes. Melbourne and Perth continued sovereign production into the early 1930s even as Britain itself wound down gold coinage, but the Depression killed demand abruptly. Melbourne struck its last sovereign in 1931; Perth followed suit the same year, ending over five decades of Australian sovereign production.