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New reverse design created for the platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II!
BOLD is excited to present the 2022 British Memorial Sovereign King Gold Coin (Proof) for your consideration. This limited-edition gold proof 2022 memorial Sovereign from The Royal Mint is the first to showcase a portrait of King Charles III. The proof Sovereigns are crafted to a much higher standard than their bullion counterparts and designed for collectors.
They are struck multiple times using hand-prepared dies to attain a superior, high-contrast, high-definition appearance. Proof Sovereigns have featured a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II to the obverse for the last seven decades. However, since Her Majesty’s passing in September 2022, these popular UK collector’s coins will be among the first to display Martin Jennings’ official portrait of Charles, which portrays His Majesty facing left, the opposite direction to his mother.
2022 Memorial Sovereigns are the first of these gold coins to feature a portrait of King Charles.
Not even a few weeks after the King’s accession to the throne was, the new coinage portrait unveiled. It is the creation of British sculptor Martin Jennings, who first modeled Charles’s profile in plaster after looking through pictures of the man. Charles is depicted in Jennings’ effigy-looking left, in contrast to his mother, who is looking right at her coins. Since the seventeenth century, it has been customary for British monarchs to face a different direction than their forebears.
Jennings’ portrait of King Charles lacks any glitzy headgear or other indications of his royal status, in contrast to Queen Elizabeth II, who was depicted wearing a crown in four of her five definitive coinage portraits. The new coin portrait resembles other male members of the House of Windsor in this way. On their coin, George V and George VI were both depicted without a crown.
The royal arms, a powerful heraldic emblem utilized by the British government and the royal family, are displayed on the obverse of the 2022 Charles III Sovereigns. In addition to symbolic representations of the four nations that make up the United Kingdom—England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland—the arms also speak to national history and identity. With the royal arms currently featured on all seven of the UK’s circulating coins, they have also maintained a constant presence on British coinage over the ages.
Collectors are always especially interested in gold sovereigns with unique designs. Get the 2022 Gold World English Memorial Sovereign King (Proof) now. These limited edition memorial coins have an extra charm because they are the first to feature King Charles III.
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