Old Head coinage
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The Old Head coinage or Veiled Head coinage were British coins struck and dated between 1893 and 1901, which featured on the obverse a portrait by Thomas Brock of an aged Queen Victoria wearing a diad
The Old Head coinage obverse (1893 double sovereign shown)
Gold coin of the Jubilee coinage
The Ashanti or "Ashantee" Medal (1874)
Brock's medal for Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (1897)
Half sovereign
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The half sovereign is a British sterling gold coin with a nominal face value of 1⁄2 of a pound, or 50 pence. First issued in its present form in 1817, it has been struck by the Royal Mint in most year
Old Head coinage
…their monetary values. Some denominations continued with their old reverse designs, with Benedetto Pistrucci's design for the sovereign extended to the half sovereign. New designs for some of the silver coinage were inaugurated, created either by Brock or by Edward Poynter, and all denominations less than the crown…
1983 half sovereign obverse
1983 half sovereign reverse
With war beginning in 1914, half sovereigns in British commerce were replaced by treasury notes.
Benedetto Pistrucci's original sketch was the basis of both the 1817 sovereign and the 2017 sovereign series, including the half sovereign.