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Quintuple sovereign
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Five pounds (gold coin).
The quintuple sovereign, or the five-pound gold coin, is a British sterlinggold coin with a nominal value of five pounds (£5). It has been struck intermittently since 1820, though as a circulation coin only in 1887, 1893 and 1902. Through most of its history, it has depicted, on its reverse, Benedetto Pistrucci's portrayal of St George and the Dragon, which has traditionally been used on the sovereign, or one-pound gold coin.