2016 Strike on the day Sovereign HM Queen 90th Birthday MS70

This  Sovereign was struck on the

The 90th Birthday of HM Queen Elizabeth

and has achieved the highest grade possible at NGC MS70

The history of the sovereign can be traced back to the fifteenth century,

four years after the Battle of Bosworth.

This decisive battle of the War of the Roses.

The new Tudor King Henry VII celebrated the stability of his realm with

‘A new Coin of Gold’

The Sovereign was named to honour the king.

The Sovereign a statement of wealth and strength.

Of the new Tudor dynasty the defining feature of this magnificent coin

was a portrait of England’s monarch.