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JM36977

Anne 1711 gold Two-Guineas

Name: Anne 1711 gold Two-Guineas
Brand: Sovereign Rarities Live
SKU: JM36977
Price: 8750.0 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Anne (1702-14), gold Two Guineas, 1711, draped bust left, Latin legend and toothed border surrounding, ANNA. DEI. GRATIA. rev. crowned cruciform shields, sceptres in angles, garter star at centre, date either side of top crown, abbreviated Latin legend and toothed border surrounding, MAG BRI. FR ET. HIB REG. edge grained, weight 16.67g (Schneider -; MCE 206; Bull EGC 455; S.3569). Colourful red tone, some flecking and nicks with some horizontal hairline scratches across lower part of bust, otherwise very fine, the date not present in the Schneider Collection.

The Latin legends on this coin translate as "Anne by the Grace of God" and on the reverse "Queen of Great Britain, France and Ireland."

The calendar year output of gold was £414,918 which was the third highest of the reign. Sir Isaac Newton was the Master Worker of the Mint at this time and later went on to officially call the gold coinage the "guinea" in a report made in the Mint papers of 1717. The gold coins had been called Guineas colloquially since the time that gold dust and metal began to be imported from the African country of Guinea, during the reign of Charles II.