George V was born George Frederick Ernest Albert on the 3rd of June 1865, he married Victoria Mary of Teck and fathered a daughter and five sons. He was the first British monarch from the House of Windsor and he died on the twentieth of January 1936. On his death he was immediately succeeded by Edward VIII, his eldest son.
The sovereign was much used in Britain early on in George V’s reign though that was all to change after the breakout of World War One, when the government began to request that people should give up their coins for the war effort.
There is only one George V sovereign design and it features Pistrucci’s St George & the Dragon. The only notable difference besides the dates of the George V sovereigns is that the earlier coins struck between 1911 and 1928 featured a bigger portrait of George while later coins struck between 1929 and 1932 had a smaller portrait. Unsurprisingly this has lead to the earlier coins to be referred to as the big heads and the later ones as the small heads.
King George was the only monarch to feature on sovereigns produced by all seven mints, and the George V sovereign was the last British sovereign coin produced for day to day use.
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