READ MORE: Why NOT to clean the oven with baking soda. The Royal Mint: ... The Sovereign coin is around 40mm across in diameter, a millimetre thick and weighed around 15.3 gram.

A rare early Victorian coin less than a millimetre thick sold at auction for a "phenomenal" £1,600, auctioneers said. The 1838 gold half sovereign, with a diameter of 19.3mm, was handed for sale ...

The Royal Mint are running a ballot for a centuries old coin worth £100,000. The gold sovereign is a 1819 George III sovereign and was one of 3,574 to be struck that year. Now two centuries later ...

A record £516,000 for royal coin: Incredibly rare sovereign bearing head of Edward VIII and struck before abdication sold at auction. Coin is one of two gold 'proofs' struck before planned 1937 ...

A rare Edward VIII sovereign coin is pictured at the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Wales, Britain in December 2019, in this image obtained by Reuters on Jan. 17, 2020.

Sovereign and half-sovereign coins often form part of an inheritance. Most of the time, the recipients don’t know what to do with them. When Ketcher moved to Ireland from her native Australia ...