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This specimen was lot 31114 in Heritage sale 3073 (Chicago, April 2019), where it sold for $19,200. The catalog description^[1] noted,

"Anne gold Guinea 1706 MS61 NGC, KM 511.1, S-3562. The penultimate year of the pre-Union Guinea type, and an extreme British rarity. The detail on this Guinea is essentially prooflike with one of the finest gold portraits of Anne the cataloger has ever seen, fully struck-up and bold; the reverse is similarly sharp with almost complete luster across the lemon-gold planchet. The sole elements holding this piece back from an even higher certified grade is a number of hairlines in the obverse field, which have not disturbed the devices nor the luster and merely give a slightly 'brushed' look, and a light planchet crack at 2 o'clock. Just two examples of this date have been graded by either PCGS or NGC; the other example, graded AU53 PCGS, sold for $3,105 in our June 2004 sale. Accordingly, we are excited to welcome this far finer specimen onto the market 15 years on, where we can only anticipate the reception it will receive from serious collectors of the British Guinea series."

Fr-320, struck 1702, 1705-07, Unc $15,000.