Great Britain 1990 100 pounds

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from the Stack's Bowers 2020 Collector's Choice sale, lot 70861
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This specimen was lot 70861 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, February 2020), where it sold for $1,800. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 100 Pounds, 1990. London Mint. NGC PROOF-69 Ultra Cameo. Virtually perfect with full cameo features and unblemished fields. The VERY SCARCE first date for this type and perhaps underappreciated in this market as such." This type was struck 1990-96. The prior type (KM 953) varied in being alloyed with copper instead of silver. It was accompanied by KM 952a (₤50), KM 951a (₤25) and KM 950a (₤10).

Recorded mintage: unknown plus 262 proofs.

Specification: 34.05 g, 0.917 fine gold (with silver alloy), 1.000 troy oz AGW.

Catalog reference: KM-953a, S-4282.

Source:

  • 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.
  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • 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, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The February 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.

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