Great Britain 1988 100 pounds
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This specimen was lot 71138 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2021), where it sold for $2,400. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 100 Pounds, 1988. Llantrisant Mint. Elizabeth II. PCGS PROOF-70 Deep Cameo. A brilliant and attractive Proof, at the peak of its peer group, with flashing mirrored fields and frosty cameo devices." This type was struck 1987-89 as a bullion coin in sizes ranging up to one ounce.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 34.05 g, 0.917 fine gold, 1 oz AGW.
Catalog reference: S-BQ1; KM-953.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
- Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
- 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.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The October 2021 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.
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