There were a total of 7,662,565 Sovereigns minted dated 1897.
Yes. The British pattern gold Sovereign was only minted at the Melbourne and Sydney mints in 1897.
There was a total of 30,044,000 1911 British Sovereigns minted for circulation.
There were 14,000 1973 Isle of Man gold "uncirculated" Half-Sovereigns minted. There were 1,250 1973 Isle of Man "Proof" gold Half-Sovereigns minted.
The were approximately 2,718,000 British 1838 gold Sovereigns minted.
There were 2.95 million 1982 British "Uncirculated" Sovereigns minted. There were 20,000 1982 British "Proof FDC" Sovereigns minted.
There were about 10,041,000 British 1904 Sovereigns minted at the Royal Mint London (no mintmark). There were about 3,743,000 British 1904 Sovereigns minted at the Melbourne Mint (mintmark = M to the right of the date). There were about 4,506,000 British 1904 Sovereigns minted at the Perth Mint (mintmark = P to the right of the date). There were about 2,986,000 British 1904 Sovereigns minted at the Sydney Mint (mintmark = S to the right of the date).
Die numbers were only on Sovereigns and Half-Sovereigns minted by the Royal Mint. Sovereigns and Half-Sovereigns minted at mints other than the Royal Mint, will have a small mintmark on the reverse of the coin near the date.
No. Any 1898 Half-Sovereigns not minted at the Royal Mint London, were minted at the Royal Mints in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. All Half-Sovereigns minted for any year in Canada, were minted at the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa.
Mintage figures were not very reliable until the 20th century, since coins were often minted by weight rather than a specific quantity or value. There were about 2.7 million British 1853 Half-Sovereigns minted.
There were no British Half-Sovereigns minted from 1938 to 1979 inclusive.
British decimal Half-Sovereigns are minted annually in most years as a non-circulating Proof FDC gold bullion coin. The last pre-decimal Half-Sovereign minted was issued in 1937 as a non-circulating Proof FDC coin.
Sovereigns and Half-Sovereigns minted in Australia at the Melbourne, Perth and Sydney Mints, were in fact British coins and were struck to the same dimensions, specifications and design as the coins would have been had they been minted at the Royal Mint in London. The exception to this is the Sovereigns and Half-Sovereigns minted at the Sydney Mint between 1855 and 1870 which had "Sydney Mint" and "Australia" inscribed on the reverse, which were for the use of the Colonies. Since 1816, all Half-Sovereigns were 0.917 fine gold, weighed 3.994 grams (half of the weight of a Sovereign) and 19mm in diameter.