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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 595127, member: 4626&quot;]This may not be news to some people, but I just found this:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.royalmint.com/store/BritishGold/UKBQ09RN.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.royalmint.com/store/BritishGold/UKBQ09RN.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.royalmint.com/store/BritishGold/UKBQ09RN.aspx</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This year will be the first year Britain&#039;s Royal Mint will be producing gold quarter sovereigns (patterns of them were made in 1853, but they were never actually put into production, until now).&nbsp; This will also be the smallest coin the modern Royal Mint has ever produced.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s 2 grams of 22 karat gold... not sure what that comes out to in troy ounces, but I think it&#039;s slightly less than a 1/16 of an ounce (a full sovereign being the equivalent of just short of 1/4 ounce).</p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting coin... and a cheap way to get that great gold sovereign design if the full sovereigns are too pricey for you (It&#039;s 65 pounds sterling, or 75 pounds for the proof.)&nbsp; Like the other sovereigns, its design is based on an effort to extrapolate from the original master dies in order to show more of Pistrucci&#039;s detail in the original design (the original design on sovereigns and half sovereigns that is; quarter sovereigns didn&#039;t exist at the time he created the design of course.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m getting one, anyone else?&nbsp; Any thoughts?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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