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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robp, post: 24843344, member: 96746&quot;]There are plenty of sovereign copies around, but most stand out like a sore thumb. Typically the detail is mushy and the border is often ill-defined. The 1917 London sovereign is copied due to its rarity.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another pair of copies that would slip under the radar rather more easily is the 1887 £5 &amp; £2 that came out of the middle-east in the 1960s. On these there are two main pointers, the easiest being the die axis which is misaligned, and the edge milling count which is wrong. Again, to the trained eye, the detail isn&#039;t crisp enough.</p><p>Examples of both are here, with the die orientation shown.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1591485[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1591486[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Based on mint tests done in the late 1960s, the gold was found to be approx. 0.89 fine as opposed to the genuine article&#039;s 0.9166 and in the case of the £5 piece tested, weighed 39.7204g which is less than the genuine coin range of 39.87549 to 40.00507g. The edge milling count was also off, being 188 compared to the genuine&#039;s 184. An article at the time also mentioned a flaw off the top right hand side of the second I in VICTORIA, but only some examples I have seen show this feature.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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