Catalog
1 Sovereign - Victoria
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 1887-1893 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | VICTORIA D:G: BRITT:REG:F:D: |
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| Mintage | 1887 M - - 940,000 1887 S - - 1,002,000 1888 M - - 2,830,000 1888 S - - 2,187,000 1889 M - - 2,732,000 1889 S - - 3,262,000 1890 M - - 2,473,000 1890 S - - 2,808,000 1891 M - - 2,749,000 1891 S - - 2,596,000 1892 M - - 3,488,000 1892 S - - 2,837,000 1893 M - - 1,649,000 1893 S - - 1,498,000 |
| Additional information |
The 1887 "Jubilee" sovereign introduced a new effigy of Victoria to mark her Golden Jubilee, but the portrait — designed by Joseph Boehm — was almost immediately controversial. Critics, including the Queen herself, found the small crown perched atop the head faintly ridiculous, and the type was replaced after just a few years by the older-head portrait introduced in 1893. That brevity gives the Jubilee sovereign a naturally compressed mintage window despite its production across multiple mints including London, Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth.
George de Aguilar's reverse die, carrying Pistrucci's St. George, was retained throughout.