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R. Ingram Coins,
2 Avonborne Way,
Chandler's Ford,
Eastleigh,
SO53 1TF
ENGLAND

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Our new list 140 is now online...

Posted by: R. Ingram Coins on 2019-09-17

Our Autumn 2019 coin list has now been uploaded to our website. It contains around 12,400 coins, many of which are brand new to this list. This includes a whole bunch of new Gold, large amounts of Silver, including a very extensive range of Half Crowns, Florins, and Shillings. We have a large collection of new Irish and Scottish coins, a stack of new Decimals, and for good measure a very impressive selection of Pennies.

R. Ingram Coins latest PDF

We get asked about Five Guineas a lot. These wonderful coins evoke an image of the UK, when it really did rule the waves. Below follows a brief history of these splendid coins. We have a number listed.

  

The 5 Guineas was a machine-struck currency coin produced from 1668–1753. It was a gold coin 37 millimetres in diameter and weighing around 42 grams. Although we know it as a 5 Guineas, during the 17th and 18th centuries it was usually known as a five-pound piece, as during the reign of Charles II a guinea was worth twenty shillings. Its value was fixed at twenty-one shillings by a Royal Proclamation in 1717.

The denomination shows the year of striking on the reverse; but also the edge inscription DECUS ET TUTAMEN ANNO REGNI — An ornament and a safeguard, in the year of the reign... — is followed by the regnal year of the monarch, in Latin words.

In the case of Charles II, the regnal year is calculated from the execution of Charles I, so 1668 is ANNO REGNI VICESIMO, the twentieth year of the reign. The edge inscription was put on the coin before the other two sides were struck — in the early years the blanks were cut out from a strip of gold which had been produced by horse power, then the blanks were sent to have the edge inscriptions impressed by a secret process devised by Pierre Blondeau, a former engineer from the Paris mint who jealously guarded his methods. The blanks were then returned to the mint to have the obverse and reverse struck in a hand-operated press. Samuel Pepys gives a long and detailed description of the rolling, cutting, and striking of the blanks in his diary entry for 19 May 1663.

Many of the coins produced up to 1699 have an elephant and castle beneath the monarch's head, indicating that the gold was provided by the Africa Company. Coins of 1703 (Queen Anne ANNO REGNI SECVNDO) have the word VIGO under the Queen's head, indicating that the gold was captured from Spanish galleons in the Battle of Vigo Bay in October 1702. Very few of these coins exist. When they do come to auction they fetch anything up to £500,000.

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