Auction record for British five-pound coin at £340,000

Baldwin’s of St James’s set a new record for a British five pounds piece when a “good, extremely fine” example of the 1839 ‘Una and the Lion’ five pounds coin took £340,000.

It was twice the previous high for the coin and considerably more than had been bid earlier in Coine…

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