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Auction: 22096 - The "St Albans" Collection of English Gold Coins
Lot: 13

The St. Albans Collection of English Gold Coins | NGC MS62 | James II (1685-1688), Guinea, 1686, second laureate bust left, rev. crowned shields cruciform, five strings to harp, emblem-adorned plain sceptres in angles, edge obliquely milled, 8.28g, 6h (MCE 126; Farey 280; EGC 324; Spink 3402), a small flaw on hair and a trace of flecking in fourth quarter of reverse, otherwise a handsomely balanced and compact striking, sharp devices accentuated by lustrous and somewhat frosty obverse surfaces, the reverse enhanced by a light ochre tone ensnaring inwards from the peripheries on reverse, a really pleasingly bold very fine and much as issued, with NGC 'St Albans' Certification, graded MS62 (#6295553-017)

Provenance
'A Distinguished Collection', purchased en bloc via Spink, August 2018

Spink, by private treaty, 7 December 2012 - [SPK2948/1] - £3,600

A private collection from Pontefract, West Yorkshire

SNC, November 1985, no. 7783* - "slightly haymarked on both sides, otherwise extremely fine - £1,170
Glendining, 27 November 1969, lot 24* - "extremely fine" - £240.0.0

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Sold for
£12,000

Starting price
£4800