This ‘extremely fine’ example of the Charles II five-guinea piece, 1679, is a very rare survivor in this condition. Estimated at £40,000- 50,000, it took £150,000 at Spink, the firm’s top coin price of 2017.
This is the 23rd year ATG has published a tabulation of London coin and medal auctions. It really doesn’t seem like a quarter of a century since 1994, when the capital’s auction take totalled £9.3m (from 23,125 lots). Tempus fugit.