Great Britain 1680 5 guineas Fr-281

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Stack's Bowers 2022 NYINC sale, lot 1266
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This specimen was lot 1266 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2022), where it sold for $22,800. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 5 Guineas Year TRICESIMO SECUNDCO, 1680/79. London Mint. Charles II. NGC EF-45. Perhaps a bit conservatively graded, the fields retain lustrous flashiness with the addition of beautiful reddish toning accents that compliment the appearance on both sides. While faint (and not recorded on the NGC insert), we note the appearance of an overdate, with the remnants of the '7' visible beneath the '8' in the date. As is always the case with 5 Guinea issues that are without major problems, a coin for which there is a far greater number of interested buyers than there are examples available." The five guineas of Charles II was struck as Fr-281 (no symbol), Fr-282 (elephant), Fr-283 (elephant & castle). An early variety was struck 1668-78 and with this bust 1678-84. While this coin is not particularly rare, it was big, glamorous and expensive when it was new and it remains so today.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 41.75 g, 0.917 fine gold.

Catalog reference: Fr-281; S-3331; KM-444.1.

Source:

  • Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
  • Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
  • Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
  • Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 NYINC Sale: World and Ancient Coins, featuring the Mark and Lottie Salton Collection and the Pat Johnson Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

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