Summary

Australia New South Wales
Sovereign, 1857 (AD)
Mint: Sydney
Other Details: This was the first year of the use of this portrait of Queen Victoria (although patterns of the design were struck in London in 1855 and 1856).

Physical Description

A gold coin (21.5 mm diameter with milled edge) featuring a head of Queen Victoria facing left and wearing a wreath of banksia with the date 1857 below. The reverse features the word AUSTRALIA below a royal crown within a wreath of laurel and with the words SYDNEY MINT above and ONE SOVEREIGN below.

Obverse Description

Head of Queen Victoria facing left and wearing a wreath of banksia in hair, which is plaited, the date 1857 below.; around, VICTORIA D:G: BRITANNIAR: REG: F:D:

Reverse Description

At centre within a laurel wreath AUSTRALIA under a royal crown; above, SYDNEY MINT; below, ONE SOVEREIGN

Edge Description

Milled

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