Jan 15, 2020
Victorian-era £5 gold coin showing 20-year-old Queen leading a lion sells for a record £530,000
Victorian-era £5 gold coin showing 20-year-old Queen leading a lion sells for a record £530,000
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Victorian-era £5 gold coin showing the 20-year-old Queen leading a lion representing the burgeoning British Empire sells for a record £530,000
The 1839 ‘Victoria Una and the Lion’ five pound shows the queen leading a lion
Shows Victoria as Una, from Edmund Spenser’s Elizabethan poem Faerie Queene
Only 400 of the gold coins, by William Wyon, of the Royal Mint, were ever struck
It had been…
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