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100 Greatest Modern World Coins Series: Great Britain 1937 King Edward VIII Gold Sovereign

With worldwide interest in Great Britain’s royal family over the decades and even centuries, it is no wonder that some of the coins reflecting those time periods are featured in Whitman Publishing’s 100 Greatest Modern World Coins. Authors Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker guide us along with coinage from a more recent period that some may know the story behind and some may not (depending on your watch history). Let's get into it.

#6 – Great Britain 1937 King Edward VIII Gold Sovereign

If we know anything about the British throne, a set of very strict aristocratic traditions and no tolerance policy on breaking social order is perhaps the greatest. In simplest terms, if you are born to the family, one must obey protocol. We have seen how that has...read more