Ancient Gold (and occasional silver!) Coins

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Scottish & English Hammered and Milled Gold Coins:

 

 

Please note that Lay-Away is no longer available on any gold coinage unless by prior arrangement. 

 

 

WAu-7993:  Extremely Rare Celtic Gold Full Stater.  Gallic War issue  - Ambiani - imported from Gaul or specifically, the modern day Rouen area of France, circa 60-50 BC.  A seemingly common enough Ambiani stater from the Gallic War period with the disjoined or sinuous horse, right, and a blank obverse.  However, the double "S" below the horse and either side of the pellet render this coin excessively rare.  Ancient British Coins (ABC) by Chris Rudd, the go-to reference for Celtic coins since 2010, taking over from Van Arsdell, has no recorded examples.  Ambiani is ABC 16, with nothing either side of the pellet.  He lists an Atrebates stater (ABC 19) as having a single S below the horse but the coin for sale here is NOT Atrebates (the Atrebates were separated from the Ambiani by the Canche river) as they have a letter A on the obverse.  Spink lump the Gallic War issues together and put forward Spink 13 - a stater with a single S on the reverse, but this turns out to be Atrebates and references back to ABC 19 - but again, even if this was the correct attribution, and it isn't, it's just a single S whereas this coin has a double reversed S.  Interestingly, the double reverse "SS" symbols appear on slightly later staters and quarter staters from the North Thames region, ABC 2237 and 2243-49 (these are the only marks on an otherwise plain reverse, unlike the symbols on this coin) and are thought to represent lightning flashes rather than letters.  So, a very common tribe (although interestingly, Ambiani staters now seem to be more expensive than Coritani staters, which certainly wasn't the case a decade ago) but an excessively rare variant that is to my knowledge unrecorded and / or unpublished.  Quite a find!  5.85g (see image here).  From an old Northern collection - the collector does not want to be named on the internet but is willing for me to disclose his name and town to the buyer for provenance.  £1,895

 

WAu-7994:  Celtic Gold Spiral Type Full Stater.  Trinovantes & Catuvellauni - Addedomaros, circa 50 BC to 1 AD.  Originally located north of the Thames area, central to the east coast.  A spiral wreath of x6 arms extending outwards from three back-to-back crescents at the centre.  The reverse horse is facing right with a ring pellet either side and a cornucopia below.  Spink 210, ABC 2517 - Ancient British Coins by Chris Rudd, the go-to reference for Celtic coins since 2010, taking over from Van Arsdell.  Not a rare coin but rare in this grade - it's generally not a well defined issue but this coin is a strong example with little wear.  Toned and lustrous.  Excellent provenance.  £975 RESERVED J.K.

Found Wing, Buckinghamshire

Ex T. Matthews (1999)

Ex Haddenham collection

Ex Spink

 

WAu-7996:  Rare Celtic Gold Broad Flan Type Quarter Stater.  Ambiani tribe - imported from Gaul or specifically, the modern day Rouen area of France, circa 3rd century BC to the mid 1st century AD.  These were the first coins to be used in Britain.  Gallo-Belgic "Broad Flan" type with a rather impressive flamboyantly wreathed head facing right on the obverse and a somewhat stylised horse on the reverse, again facing right.  Spink 6, ABC 28 (listed "Rare") - Ancient British Coins (ABC) by Chris Rudd, the go-to reference for Celtic coins since 2010, taking over from Van Arsdell.  From an old collection - the collector does not want to be named on the internet but is willing for me to disclose his name and town to the buyer for provenance.  See here for old tickets etc.  £670

Ex J.Follws collection

Ex Chris Rudd (sold for £500 back in the day)

Ex Northern collection

 

WAu-7999:  Extremely Rare Celtic Unrecorded Quarter Stater.  North Thames Region, Eastern.  The x33 uninscribed coins found predominantly in the Eastern part of the North Thames Region, especially Essex, can not be comfortably attributed to the Trinovantes nor the Catuvellauni.  They are all extremely rare (Van Arsdell only listed x7).  Current attribution has this coin in the "Cantian-inspired gold and silver types" category.  Obverse plain field apart from a single "S" shape in the centre (the main image did not really highlight the "S" so I've added another image here) - reverse "S" symbols are thought to represent lightning flashes rather than letters although this "S" is not inverted / the reverse depicts a tree-like trophy on a triad of ringed pellets with various motifs surrounding.  Spink not listed, ABC 2249 (listed "Extremely Rare") - Ancient British Coins (ABC) by Chris Rudd, the go-to reference for Celtic coins since 2010, taking over from Van Arsdell.  From an old collection - the collector does not want to be named on the internet but is willing for me to disclose his name and town to the buyer for provenance.  See here for old tickets etc.  £885

Ex Chris Rudd (sold for £650 back in the day)

Ex Northern collection

 

WAu-9017:  Celtic Iron Age Full Gold Stater - Verica.  Sole ruler of the Southern region, 10-40 AD,  and closely allied with Rome, so much so that in AD 42, Verica fled to Rome in order to seek assistance from Claudius, which would appear somewhat ambitious, knowing what we now know about Claudius, although with the Claudian invasion of Britain in AD 43, perhaps not - even Claudius would have recognised the strategic importance of embedded, compliant "friends" in a land to be conquered.  Obverse: "COMF" on tablet - a tribute to Commios, Verica being the so-called third son of Commios (the others being Eppillus & Tincommius); rev: Horseman, right, holding spear, REX below, VIR behind the galloping horseman.  Rex is Latin for king (another nod to Rome) but Verica literally meant "the high one", as in Your Highness.  In fairness, Verica was very successful, much more than his brothers, at least up until AD 40!!  Spink 120, ABC 1190, Van Arsdell 500-1, BMC 1146-58.  See here for weight and tickets.  An interesting question - is the horseman actually a horsewoman?  A very nice, popular Celtic full gold stater.  £2,325

 

WAu-9018:  Celtic Iron Age Full Gold Stater - Tasciovanus.  Catulvellauni tribe, 25 BC - AD 10 Hidden faces type with the obverse being Hidden Faces - crossed wreaths, one curved, back-to-back, crescents at the centre with faces in the angles.  The reverse has a horse in flight, right, a bucranium and a solar device above.  TASCIAVAN is supposed to be above nut it rarely is.  Hook-like devices are found below the horse but this coin has an extra object below, described as a "bunch of grapes" on the ticket.  See here for weight.  Again, Tasciovanus appears to have had ties with Rome as his coinage, especially the later issues, use increasingly Romanised designs.  Tasciovanus was an excellent king but unusually, his greatness is perhaps overshadowed by that of his son, Cunobelinus.  It is ironic that the hard work, strengthening and consolidation of the Catulvellauni by Tasciovanus literally paved the way for Cunobelinus to shine so illustriously.  Spink 214, ABC 2553, Van Arsdell 1680, BMC 1591-1603.  An outstanding and thus desirable coin.  £2,450

 

WAu-9019:  Roman Gold Aureus - Hadrian with Sought After She-Wolf, Romulus & Remus Reverse.  Struck Rome, AD 124-5.  Obverse: Laureate head right, slight drapery to far shoulder, HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS.  Reverse: Capitoline wolf, left, suckling the twins Romulus & Remus, COS above, III below in exergue.  An extremely popular, sought-after and quite difficult reverse type to source and Hadrian is one of the most popular emperors to collect anyway, regardless of reverses.  They come with the wolf left and wolf right facing.  See here for the weight and here for a coin-in-the-hand image using a camera phone.  RIC II. 3 709, BMCRE 449, Biaggi 598.  The last one to go through Auction was earlier this year, Spink, with an £8,500 price after buyer's commission - I was the underbidder, or one bid under that.  There or thereabouts, though.  A rare coin and a rare oportunity.  £7,450

 

WRS-8999:  Roman Silver Legionary Denarius: Legion II - Extraordinary Provenance.  Roman Imperatorial coinage, post Second Triumvirate, Mark Antony.  Struck Autumn 32 to Spring 31 BC.  RSC 27, Sear 349.  Legionary denarii is the modern name for a series of Roman silver denarius coins issued by Mark Antony in the eastern Med

iterranean during the last war of the Roman Republic from 32 to 31 BC, in the lead up to the Battle of Actium.  They were struck for one purpose only - to pay the legionary soldiers.  This coin is Legion II - present in the British invasion force of the imperial propraetor Aulus Plautius in AD43, during which it was placed under the command of the young legionary legate Titus Flavius Vespasianus, later to become emperor.  Twenty Three legions were honoured in this "Legionary" denarius issue.  The coins were struck in reduced silver content (!) and so survived the rigours of circulation much better than standard denarii.  This meant that they continued to be used in circulation and would have been present on the invasion force of AD 43.  The entire legion apart from a small caretaker force, plus detachments of Legio VI Victrix and Legio XX Valeria Victrix, was put to work on the construction of Hadrian’s Wall.  Part of the very famous Helmingham Hoard of 2019 - the largest mixed hoard of British Iron Age and Roman coins ever found in Britain.  This hoard was deposited AD 46-7, only 3 or 4 years after Legion II landed.  Sold with an impressive array of tickets & literature here and here.  The large A4 double-sided glossy document makes very interesting reading as it attempts to focus in on the individual who deposited this hoard into the ground.  A very good coin for issue, bearing in mind its nearly 80 years in circulation, but more than that, true history in a coin!  £435 

Provenance:

ex Helmingham Hoard of 2019

 

WAu-8089:  Early Anglo-Saxon English Crondall Gold Thrysma or Shilling.  Witman type with obverse bust right, a trident in front.  Circa 620-45.  The reverse has a blundered legend surrounding a crude cross with what is a very different 4th terminal to what we'd normally expect to see on this type.  Sutherland type IV.1, Spink 753.  Of excellent gold content - it was from this point onwards that the metal used for Saxon coinage was increasingly and progressively "watered down" with silver (the post Crondall and European types have that insipid gold colour about them) until by circa AD 660's, they were all entirely silver in metal content.  Recorded on the E.M.C. database (2022-0426).  The Crondall (Hampshire) Hoard of 1828 was the single largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold coins found prior to the 21st century.  It comprised 97 gold coins, together with three unstruck gold planchets and one gold-plated object that could have been a coin forgery.  Of the 97 coins, 73 were Anglo-Saxon Thrymsa and 24 were Merovingian or Frankish tremissis.  The consensus amongst historians is that hoard dates from between AD 635 and about AD 650.  The coins are now in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.  Of the 73 Thrysmas, x4 in the hoard had the same obverse die as the coin listed here.  All Crondall "Native Anglo-Saxon" type Thrysmas as rare - even the late "two emperors" type, which is invariably the one to turn up, is rare as very few gold Saxon coins were minted and hardly any survived - it would only be through hoards or casual field losses.  This is an extremely important and significant Anglo-Saxon gold coin.  £5,695

 

WAu-8056:  **Choice** Saxon Merovingian Gold Tremissis.   Wico in Pontio (Quentovic), c. 620-640. Tremissis (Gold, 13mm, 1.26g, 0h), Moneyer Dutta. +VVICCO FIT Laureate bust to right. Rev. DVTTA MONET, Cross on three steps. Belfort 4959. NM II p. 55, 14. Prou 1125.  Rare but rarer still being centrally struck and such good grade. Clear and well struck, good very fine or better.  The Merovingian Dynasty was based in ancient Gaul (which is now France) and dates from the middle of the 5th century AD.  The coins were very much trading pieces and many have been found in Britain as Saxon trade between the Continent and Britain was extremely robust.  Similar examples have been found as far west as Cornwall and as far north as Northumbria.  Ex Ian Millington (an expert on Anglo Saxon coinage), ex Silbury Coins (their ticket), ex DNW.  You will not find a better example of this early Saxon gold coin.  It really is a choice coin.  £3,250

 

WAu-7812:  Edward III Medieval Hammered Gold Full Noble.  Fourth coinage, post-treaty period of 1369-77, group III.  Spink 1521, North 1281, Schneider 115.  Calais mint.  The town of Calais in what is now Northern France was under English rule from 1347 until 7 January 1558, being a bit of a vanity statement for the English monarchs in their claim on the French crown. It cost almost 1/5th of all the revenue collected in England to maintain Calais as an English possession.  The mint was opened in 1363 as a direct result of the treaty between France and England and meant the mintage of coinage for England could be outsourced to Calais to aid in the newly formed cross-channel trading routes.  The relationship between the two countries has perhaps always been a tad strained - the mint closed in 1440 after really only producing limited coinage under Edward III, a tiny amount of gold under Richard II and Henry IV, a miniscule quantity of farthings under Henry V and some of the earlier coinage of Henry VI.  Rusty obverse dies – perhaps a result of French sea air?!  Ex Malthouse collection; also accompanied by a much earlier, unidentified ticket.  £5,450

 

WAu-9021:  Edward III Medieval Hammered Gold Full Noble.  Fourth coinage, pre-treaty period, 1351-61.  Series E with impaired letters on the dies so c.1354-55.  Initial mark Cross 2, E at centre of reverse, Spink 1488, Schneider 23 (the obverse), North 1160.  Note the red deposits at 1 o'clock on the reverse.  This is usually the remains of inert red wax where the coin has been prepared to be copied into a very early iteration of the BMC.  With much patience, this coin should be able to be located with perhaps a more in-depth provenance.  See here for old tickets and here for weight.  About VF thus scarce.  £4,995

Provenance

Ex Spink (2010), sold to

Ex Estafefette collection

 

WAu-9020:  Henry IV Hammered Gold Medieval Half Noble.  Light Coinage of 1412-13 only.  This is a single issue, Spink 1716.  A contemporary imitation.  Ex Patrick Finn (1999) where he describes this as, “Very fine, unrecorded and very interesting since there are very few known half nobles of Henry IV.”  See here for the original Patrick Finn write-up with his corresponding photograph here.  The weight is here.  The official Henry IV half nobles are as rare as hens' teeth (we're talking the fingers on one hand) but this contemporary imitation is thought to be unique.  Nothing can be rarer than this!  £2,895

Provenance

Ex Patrick Finn FPL 17, 1999 – Number 6 – £650 “Very fine, unrecorded and very interesting since there are very few known half nobles of Henry IV.”

 

WAu-9022:  Henry V Medieval Hammered Gold Full Noble.  Series C with a broken annulet on the side of the ship.  1413-22.  Initial mark Cross Pattée (4), Spink 1742.  Easter 1412, the very tail end of Henry IV, hailed a numismatic New Dawn – due to fiscally challenging times, gold and silver coinage was officially issued at a reduced weight.  We’re all so jaded with officialdom today that many might think this was no big deal but although there had previously been “tinkering” of weights (Edward III nobles down from 138 grains to 120 grains), this was the first official “Light Coinage” episode where the coin in your hand was not quite worth the amount it represented.  A few Henrys on and just over 100 years in the future, Henry VIII took this concept to a whole new level.  Some might even argue that reducing silver content by half and then ultimately taking silver out of coinage altogether in the early and mid 20th century was worse still.  However, in 1412 in was the first time and it was momentous.  This decision made, it would be an obvious move, you’d imagine, to increase the output of gold from the mint, thereby benefiting the exchequer.  However, there is no numismatic evidence suggesting that this actually happened; the main reason being that bullion was still very thin on the ground.  Another reason was the almost complete lack of skilled staff at every level in the mint due to extreme inactivity during the preceding years.  In September 1412, the warden at the mint was ordered to recruit moneyers and die-sinkers.  This clearly impacted Henry IV coinage but it also affected early Henry V coinage, especially gold, for the above reasons of lack of sufficient bullion and a new workforce at the mint who would have needed a lot of time to get up to speed.  See here for weight.  This gold noble is a superb example of this rarer monarch, being at least as good as both nobles Spink put up as plate coins, with all the vast resources at their fingertips.  £6,450

 

WAu-7555:  Edward IV Hammered Medieval Gold Ryal or Rose Noble.  Light Coinage of 1464 – 1470 only, London mint, small fleurs in spandrels, initial mark Crown, Spink 1951.  This coin, issued in 1465, whilst unambiguously attractive in design, was a bit of a disaster.  It superseded the old Noble because this was now considered a clunky and old fashioned denomination at 6s. 8d.  The new Ryal or Rose Noble denomination was nice and user-friendly at 10 shillings.  However, it wasn’t.  The noble had been around for so long that 6s. 8d. had actually become the professionals’ standard fee.  Whilst these professionals wouldn’t have minded being the beneficiary of a not inconsequential pay rise virtually overnight, the people who employed these individuals were most certainly not up for that.  Thus the new 10 shilling Ryal or Rose Noble denomination was itself superseded just 5 years later by the gold Angel and everyone was happy because the Angel circulated at, wait for it, exactly the same as the old Noble - 6s. 8d, or at least it did until Henry VIII got involved when, somewhat counter-intuitively, it increased to 7s. 6d in his Second Coinage!  At virtually full weight and VF grade, this is a lovely example of an iconic English late Medieval hammered gold coin.  £6,850

 

WAu-7940:  Henry VII Hammered Tudor Gold Angel.  Type IV, rarer Greyhound Head initial mark (1502-4), Spink 2185.  This is the first Greyhound Head angel I have had.  Very much the new dies type - angel with both feet on the dragon as opposed to the old type with just one foot.  A nice, presentable rarer initial mark hammered gold angel, ex mount, for well under £2,000 (possibly even cheaper if you take up the Coin News advert challenge?!)  Good look in finding any other Angel, for any monarch, for sale at under £2K these days.  £1,850 RESERVED (M.He.21-12-23)

 

WAu-7311:  Henry VIII Hammered Gold Crown of the Double Rose.  Third coinage, initial mark none / WS monogram, 1544-47, Bristol mint.  Spink 2310.  Ex Spink (various tickets here).  Slightly wavy flan with minor edge splits.  A very popular coin and invariably a minimum of £5K in today’s market.  This one priced very competitively at £4,295

 

WAu-9023:  Edward VI Tudor Hammered Gold Half Sovereign.  Although struck within the early period of Edward's reign, they all bear the name AND portrait of his father, Henry VIII.  A youthful portrayal of Henry - a strange choice of depiction, bearing in mind Henry was not only elderly but also dead at this point! - with sceptre.  Initial mark Arrow.  Lozenge stops on the obverse; broken quatrefoils on the reverse.  Spink 2391, Schneider 660, North 1865.  Always a problematic issue, the dies poor and the end product rarely, if ever, struck up properly.  See here for weight and tickets.  This coin above average for issue.  £2,385 RESERVED (R.E.28-11-24)

Provenance

Ex Michael Trenerry

 

WAu-9025:  Charles 1st Hammered Gold SCOTTISH Eighth Unit.  Third coinage, 1637-42, Briot issue, right at the start of this coinage.  Spink 5538.  An EF grade coin, far surpassing the plate coin Spink put up, with all the vast resources at their fingertips.  Some interesting political graffiti lightly behind the king's head ("6" - obviously someone back in the day making a point as to the Scottish heritage of both the coin and the king) which is barely discernable and would polish out if desired.  An outstanding coin with equally impressive provenance.  See here for all the old tickets and here for weight.  An exciting and very rare Scottish hammered gold offering.  £4,545

Provenance

Ex Mark Rasmusson (2013), sold to

Ex Maurice Bull collection, dispersed to

Ex Noonans (Feb 2023 where it sold for £4,128 including buyer's commission)

 

WAu-8088:  Charles II Restoration Period Hammered Gold Crown.  First issue, initial mark Crown, circa very early in the 1660-62 hammered period.  Obverse 3, reverse 3 dies.  Spink 3303, North 2757, Schneider 389, Bull 114 (plate coin).  Pierced and plugged (immediately to the left of the obverse initial mark / around the letter R of the reverse – die rotation 10h).  I bought this as a nEF, unplugged coin because even though I’d looked closely, I did not spot the plug.  In honesty, I still can’t place it with any high degree of certainty as it’s a top rate job.  If the paperwork (which came to me after I’d bought the coin) stating the presence of the plug were to become disassociated from this coin, I doubt anyone would ever notice – the workmanship is that good.  This extremely late hammered coinage period of 1660-62, even though it spanned three issues, was very much treading water and just really getting anything out there that would reassure the public of the Restoration of the monarchy and the demise of the Commonwealth.  The quality of coinage in general was not good and did deteriorate through the issues – you only have to look at the hammered halfcrown issues to see that.  Everyone at the mint was aware that hammered coinage was dead in the water and that milled coinage was coming (indeed, Blondeau was getting everything together, ready for production of his new milled coinage, literally as this coin was being minted) so the dies were mediocre at best, as was the actual execution of the coinage.  And yet look at the state of this coin, especially the obverse!  What a tremendous coin!  Something else to bear in mind: Blondeau needed all the silver and gold he could get his hands on for the onset of milled coinage, and the country was still teetering on bankruptcy after the Commonwealth, so very little bullion was actually put into the hammered years.  A very rare, attractive and desirable coin.  £4,850

 

WAu-7816:  1673 Charles II Restoration Period Milled Full Gold Guinea.  Fourth laureate bust with the rounded truncation.  John & Joseph Roettier dies with Blondeau’s machinery – the milling on the edge of the coin was a safeguard against clipping which had been not just a thorn in the side of every hammered period, but rather a stake.  The practise of clipping officially ended here after several hundred years.  The Guinea was so named because some of the gold bullion used came from the country of Guinea, via the Africa Company.  It was a 20 shilling denomination, directly replacing the short-lived 1662 gold Broad of 20 shillings.  The racehorse aficionados among you are probably crying out “21 shillings, 21 shillings!” but revaluation of a guinea to that amount took place in 1717 under George 1st.  Incidentally, there were times prior to 1717 where the actual value of a guinea (and remember, the value of any coin, guineas very much included, was entirely based on the precious metal content) was even higher than 21 shillings due to market fluctuations in the value, or spot price of gold.  Spink 3344.  No mount marks.  £2,775

 

WAu-7817:  1701 William III Milled Full Gold Guinea.  Second laureate bust with a proliferation of hair.  The milling on the edge of the coin was a safeguard against clipping which had been not just a thorn in the side of every hammered period, but rather a stake.  The practise of clipping officially ended with the introduction of milled coinage in 1662.  The Guinea was so named because some of the gold bullion used came from the country of Guinea, via the Africa Company.  It was a 20 shilling denomination, directly replacing the short-lived 1662 gold Broad of 20 shillings of the earlier Charles II.  The racehorse aficionados among you are probably crying out “21 shillings, 21 shillings!” but revaluation of a guinea to that amount took place in 1717 under George 1st.  Incidentally, there were times prior to 1717 where the actual value of a guinea (and remember, the value of any coin, guineas very much included, was entirely based on the precious metal content) was even higher than 21 shillings due to market fluctuations in the value, or spot price of gold.  Spink 3463.  Ex Morton & Eden (their ticket sold with this coin) for £2,000 hammer (£2,600 after commissions) in 2022, ex Spink.  No mount marks and really, a very nice grade example for a William III guinea.  £2,975

 

WAu-7765:  1710 Queen Anne Full Gold Guinea.   Post Scottish union, third draped bust, Spink 3574.  8.36g.  It won’t have escaped your notice that with Queen Anne gold coinage in particular, when they do come up, they are almost always HALF guineas.  It really is hard work finding full guineas.  Very light ex mounting marks at 11, 12 and 1 o’clock but again, find one that doesn’t these days.  However, they really are minor and do not detract.  Sold with a ticket that made no mention of mount marks.  £2,395 RESERVED (M.He.23-5-23)

 

WAu-7818:  1714 Queen Anne Milled Full Gold Guinea.  Post Scottish union, third draped bust.  The milling on the edge of the coin was a safeguard against clipping which had been not just a thorn in the side of every hammered period, but rather a stake.  The practise of clipping officially ended with the introduction of milled coinage in 1662.  The Guinea was so named because some of the gold bullion used came from the country of Guinea, via the Africa Company.  It was a 20 shilling denomination, directly replacing the short-lived 1662 gold Broad of 20 shillings of the earlier Charles II.  The racehorse aficionados among you are probably crying out “21 shillings, 21 shillings!” but revaluation of a guinea to that amount took place in 1717 under George 1st.  Incidentally, there were times prior to 1717 where the actual value of a guinea (and remember, the value of any coin, guineas very much included, was entirely based on the precious metal content) was even higher than 21 shillings due to market fluctuations in the value, or spot price of gold.  It won’t have escaped your notice that with Queen Anne gold coinage in particular, when they do come up, they are almost always HALF guineas.  It really is hard work finding full guineas.  Spink 3574.  Ex Spink with associated Spink tickets.  Interestingly, Spink now appear to use the Ellerby Hoard as a classification guide – their classification is “Ellerby 181-190”, meaning lots 181 through to 190 in the Ellerby Hoard sale that they conducted were all 1714 Queen Anne Guineas.  For context, the Ellerby Hoard is a hoard of 266 17th-18th century hammered and milled gold coins found in a manganese-mottled salt-glazed stoneware vessel in the garden of a house in Ellerby, East Riding of Yorkshire in 2019.  Hoard estimate £200,000; hammer £750,000.  As this guinea is ex Spink (but not ex Ellerby), I think it only fair to compare.  The Ellerby coin that I’ve attached here, lot 187, is clearly not quite as good grade as the one on offer on this website.  Never-the-less, both attracted a Spink grade of “pleasing VF” (NGC got a little carried away and graded it About Uncirculated!)  The Ellerby coin sold for £4,000 after commissions, and that was several years ago with the market ever moving upwards.  Obviously there’s a small premium for provenance to consider as it was very good provenance.  This coin: no mount marks, some lustre, well struck up.  £3,275