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25 Pounds - Charles III St George & The Dragon, 1/4 oz Fine Gold
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Weight | 7.8 g |
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| Obverse description | Uncrowned effigy of King Charles III facing left, modelled by Martin Jennings, occupying the majority of the field against a fine engine-turned background. The circumscribed Latin legend reads CHARLES III · D · G · REX · F · D · 25 POUNDS, distributed around the portrait with the denomination appearing at the lower right. The engraver's initials MJ appear discreetly below the truncation of the bust. |
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| Reverse description | Dynamic high-relief depiction of Saint George, helmeted and armoured, mounted on a rearing horse and thrusting a lance downward toward a writhing dragon beneath the horse's hooves, in the tradition established by Benedetto Pistrucci. The date 2025 appears prominently in the upper right field. The engraver's initials KG are incused at the lower centre of the design. A repeating border legend encircles the entire composition, reading 1/4 OZ . FINE GOLD . 999.9 . 2025, set against a stippled background field. |
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The St George and the Dragon reverse on British gold sovereigns descends from Benedetto Pistrucci's original 1817 design, commissioned after Waterloo when the British government wanted a coinage that projected imperial confidence. Pistrucci, an Italian gem engraver who had never cut a coin die before, was famously refused membership in the Royal Academy of Engravers — so he was never permitted to engrave the master dies himself, only models, which is why the design had to be reproduced by other hands for most of its history.
The .9999 fineness of this quarter-ounce issue is notably purer than the traditional sovereign standard of .9167, a specification choice driven by competition with bullion markets rather than any continuity with circulating coinage.