Great Britain 1706 guinea
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. 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."
This type was struck 1702, 1705-07 and is expensive in all grades.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 8.35 g, 0.917 fine gold.
Catalog reference: Fr-320, KM 511.1, S-3562.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995
- 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.
- [1]Bierrenbach, Cristiano and Warren Tucker, Heritage World and Ancient Coins Auction 3073, featuring the Lake County Collection of British coins, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2019.
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