Watch List notes:

William and Mary (1688‑94), Five Guineas, 1691, conjoined busts right, legend surrounding, GVLIELMVS ET MARIA DEI GRATIA, toothed borders both sides. Rev, crowned quartered shield of arms with scalloped frame, eight strings to Irish harp, Lion of Nassau at centre surrounded by eleven billets, date flanking top crown, reads MAG BR FR ET HIB REX ET REGINA, edge inscription as DECVS ET TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI TERTIO (S.3422; ECG.344; MCE.136). Sandy gold toning with some iridescence around the periphery, the jugate portraits showing strong detail with the usual areas of distortion, few bagmarks, small striking flan flaw in the S of Kings name. Rev, pleasing, the odd annealing metal fissure. Very fine.