Five Guineas 1701 Fine Work S.3456 NVF/Good Fine an ex-jewellery piece with signs of expert repair on the 01 of the date, the surfaces considerably superior to most ex-jewellery pieces that we encounter, an opportunity to acquire an example of this highly important coin in the history of the milled coinage at a fraction of the cost of a high grade piece. Comes in a presentation box. The Fine Work Five Guineas introduced major advances to the quality of minting at the time, leading to further higher relief designs being produced in the 18th Century, right up to the introduction of the later machine-made milled coinage
Estimate: 3000-6000 GBP