FAQs

What makes a coin valuable?

Plus Icon

I have coins to sell, what’s the next step?

Plus Icon

How will my purchases be shipped?

Plus Icon

What happens if I’m not entirely happy with my purchase?

Plus Icon
GM28623

Charles II 1684/3 Five-Guineas, second head, final date, AU58

Regular price £65,000
Regular price Sale price £65,000

Charles II (1660-85), gold Five Guineas, 1684, the 4 of date struck over a 3, second laureate head right, Latin legend and toothed border surrounding, CAROLVS. II. DEI. GRATIA, rev. crowned cruciform shields, sceptres in angles, four interlinked Cs at centre, date either side of top crown, Latin legend and toothed border surrounding, MAG. BR. FRA. ET. HIB REX., edge inscribed in Latin raised letters, .+.DECVS. ET. TVTAMEN. ANNO. REGNI. TRICESIMO. SEXTO.+. (Schneider 427; Holloway 38; Bull EGC 202 MCE 29; S.3331; Fr.281; KM.444.1). Well struck example of the final date of the reign which is usually much weaker, hair just a little soft, some surface marks and nicks, has been slabbed and graded by NGC as AU58, rare this well struck.

NGC Certification 6295553-014.

The Latin legends translate as on the obverse "Charles the second by the Grace of God," and abbreviated on the reverse as "King of Great Britain, France and Ireland" and finally on edge "an ornament and a safeguard, in the thirty sixth year of his reign" The regnal year was counted from the time his Father Charles I died in January 1648/9.

Provenance:

Ex Distinguished Collection, sold by Spink en bloc August 2018.

Ex St. Albans Collection - on NGC label.

FAQs

What makes a coin valuable?

Plus Icon

I have coins to sell, what’s the next step?

Plus Icon

How will my purchases be shipped?

Plus Icon

What happens if I’m not entirely happy with my purchase?

Plus Icon
1 of 4