Coins that were equivalent in weight and specs at the Gold Sovereign

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neonuke

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Hi all, is there a definitive list of all the gold coins that mimic the gold composition as the gold sovereign?

There's a few that I'm aware of, and was wondering if anyone has compiled such a list and attempted to collect them all?

South Africa Republic Pond - Kruger Pond: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces9791.html
South Africa Pre-Union - Burgers Pond: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces24472.html
South Africa One Pound - KGVI: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces44913.html
South Africa One Pound - QEII: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces89758.html
South Africa Two Rand - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces22080.html
Saudi Arabia Guinea - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces11470.html
Saudi Aramco Gold Disc - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces63088.html
Cyprus 20 Pounds (various commemoratives) - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces66282.html
Cyprus 20 Euros - (various commemoraties) - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces56927.html
Cyprus Archbishop Marcarios (technically exonumia and not a coin) - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia112637.html
Greece 100 Euro (various commemoratives) - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces40285.html
India 15 Rupees - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces15712.html
Isle of Man Sovereign (and its many commemorative issues) - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces35041.html
Colombia 5 Pesos https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces90819.html
New Zealand 10 Dollars (Lions Rugby Tour Commemorative) - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces118444.html
Oman 15 Saidi Rials - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces50251.html
Poland 25 Gulden - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces29707.html
Sri Lanka 5000 Rupee (Independence) - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces62435.html
Suriname 250 Guilders (various commemoratives) - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces91482.html
Tonga 1 Hau - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces344389.html
Turkmenistan 1000 Manat - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces100857.html

And a notable mention is the Hong Kong $1000 gold coin, which is struck to the same specifications as a double sovereign (there are a few commemorative issues of this coin too, think old school Lunar Series commemoratives)
E.g. Dragon 1976 - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces36167.html
E.g. Hong Kong Handover 1997 - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces24912.html

Notable mention two is the German states 20 Mark gold, coming in at 0.2304oz AGW - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces21444.html

I'm guessing there would be a lot more coins to add to this list, anyone know of any other coins that matches the gold sovereign in size, weight and gold content?
 
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Added a few more to the list in the original post. lots of interesting pieces from the Numista search. Quite a few coins from the search results were excluded from the list, being a smidge under or over the sovereign's 0.2354oz AGW content.

Eye opening how many coins are basically the same as the sovereign and a lot that are very similar in weight.

Also added another notable exception is the German states 20 Mark gold. They were 0.2304oz AGW instead of the 0.2354. Can't remember where I read it, but vaguely remember seeing/reading something that there were proposals to accept either coin interchangeably due to their similarity in weights?
 
Perth Mint says Australian Gold Sovereigns are 22k gold, but does not state what the alloyed metals are:

https://www.perthmint.com/shop/coll...-gold-sovereigns-of-the-perth-mint-1899-1931/

US Mint says Gold Eagles are also 22k gold and does state the "composition is 91.67% gold, 3% silver, balance copper"

https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-medal-programs/american-eagle/gold-bullion

The Eagles have "full" weights of gold so the 1/4 oz Eagle has 0.25 toz gold, but they are likely to be the same 22k composition.
 
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