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Auction 22096  8 Dec 2022
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Lot 21

Starting price: 8000 GBP
Price realized: 14 000 GBP
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The St. Albans Collection of English Gold Coins | NGC MS63+ | Anne (1702-1714), 'Post-Union' Guinea, 1714, third laureate and draped bust left, rev. crowned shields cruciform, six strings to harp, emblem-adorned sceptres in angles, edge obliquely milled, 8.35g, 6h (MCE 226; Farey 570; EGC 479; Spink 3574), a scarcely perceptible scuff behind ties and residual flecking, otherwise boldly struck and most handsomely uniform, fully lustrous with notes of honey-orange overlying tone in recesses, attractively choice, much as struck, and truly rare in such honest, original state, with NGC 'St Albans' Certification, strictly graded MS63+ (#6295553-029).
Provenance
'A Distinguished Collection', purchased en bloc via Spink, August 2018,
Spink, by private treaty, 1 February 2012 - [SPK4202/3] - £4,500,
'The Cheshire Collection', sold privately to Spink, 9 January 2012
SJA 7, 8 February 2008, lot 296 - "red toning, about mint state" - £2,200,
SJA 6, 8 June 2007, lot 221 - "about uncirculated with red tone, choice and rare" - £2,800
Estimate: £14000 - £20000
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