My mom has had this piece of jewellery which was passed down to her, so its quite an age. What is the coin inside the piece? Would this be genuine coin? At the back of the jewellery it has an 18K mark.
Almost certainly British or from a British Commonwealth country on the basis thats Queen Victoria. Could be a 22K Sovereign (0.2354 troy ounces of AGW). The 19K hallmark is for the chain or bezel. Doing a quick catalog search now. Edit: At this point it looks like a garden variety 'Victoria veiled-head' Sovereign minted sometime between 1893-1900. Can you measure the approximately diameter of the coin face? Without an idea of the size it may be a half-sovereign or 2-pound coin ('double sovereign') if you're lucky. It also be a lower purity jeweler's copy or imitation; unable to determine without assay or XRF. Worst case it could also just be a gold-plated British penny. Can you see the reverse of the coin?
VICTORIA DEI GRA BRITT REGINA FID DEF IND IMP http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces17317.html or https://www.google.com.au/search?sa...INA+FID+DEF+IND+IMP&safe=off&spell=1&tbm=isch
Its not an English Sovereign,most likely a copy from an Arab country. Queen Victoria looks troubled,she was more appealing on a real sov
Isn't there a google app that does an image search via a scan? It looks fake, and I'm sorry to say - cheap. A poor piece of workmanship, notice the gap between the diamonds. It may well be 18 or 22K gold but it's not a coin ie legal (or ex legal) tender, just a token.
This one certainly looks different. Different details to veil, different (and more accurate) Star of the Garter, etc. Mind, the image below is an Australian minted version - perhaps there was more variation than just the mint mark - I'm no expert.
Thats about the right diameter for a half-Sovereign. As the other poster point out, its also common for jewelers to make lower purity copies.
Your jewellery shows an old head Queen Victoria but the lettering T.B. below the bust appears missing. If so I would reckon you have an 18ct copy ( fake ) but not without intrinsic gold content value.
Indeed. I confess, knowing little of these things, I thought that was a mint mark of some sort, but it isn't; it's the artist's initials. And it should be there for that 'edition' of the sovereign, so I too - again, knowing little of these things - suspect you have a copy. Doesn't mean it isn't 18kt, mind, and that's only just shy of the real thing.
I wouldn't worry about the 'coin' - I'd be more concerned about the stones. If they are real, then the legitimacy of the coin is irrelevant to the value, especially if it is 18kt. I agree, if it's not real, it's not 22kt (like a sovereign is) but that's gilding the lily really if the stones are real. If the stones are CZs and you thought they were diamonds then, again, the issue of the coin is moot. All that said, if they were putting real diamonds in, you'd think they'd get a real sov. JB3
Me too, but if they are good CZs and it's all 18kt gold, you still have a nice piece with some inherent objective value, let alone any sentiment.