1931 PERTH GOLD SOVEREIGN LOW MINT UNC Free postage

The final gold Sovereigns produced at the Royal Mint's Perth branch in 1931. The Perth mint was opened in 1899, taking advantage of the Western Australian gold rushes of the end of the nineteenth century. Perth was the third of the Australian colonial outposts of the Royal Mint established and continued striking Sovereigns years after the London mint had ceased to do so.

 These Sovereigns feature the later 'Small Head' portrait of George V, in use between 1929 and 1931. This is paired with a much older reverse design: Benedetto Pistrucci's Saint George and the dragon engraving. A dynamic and instantly recognisable motif, it was created in 1817 for the first modern Sovereigns. Like all of these gold coins, these branch mint examples are composed of 7.98 grams of 22-carat (0.9167) gold. Each has a diameter of 22.05 millimetres from milled edge to milled edge.