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Top Ten Lots
5 May 2005
The Samuel King Collection of Highly Important Gold Coins

Tim Hirsch, Chairman, Collectables: “This market goes from strength to strength with new private buyers continually emerging. The prices realised at Spink today once again reflect the strength of the current market. The highlight of the sale was the Queen Anne Five Guineas – in 1989 this coin fetched £39,000 at Spink. Sixteen years later the famous Vigo Five Guineas returned to the saleroom to sell for a staggering £149,500.”

Sale Total: £1,630,228/$3,113,735
Exchange rate: $1.91
Sold %: 95%
Lots sold: 202
Lots offered: 217

Lot 142
Anne (1702-14), the celebrated Vigo Five Guineas, 1703 - AUCTION RECORD
Sold for £149,500

Lot 179
George III (1760-1820),
Pattern Five Guineas, 1770
Sold for £80,500

Lot 193
George III, Pattern Five Pounds, 1820
Sold for £66,700

Lot 37
Edward VI, third period,
Fine Sovereign
Sold for £59,800

Lot 21
Henry VII (1485-1509),
type IV, Sovereign
Sold for £40,250

Lot 51
Elizabeth I, fifth issue, Ryal
Sold for £29,900

Lot 76
Charles I, Triple-unite, 1642
Sold for £29,900

Lot 22
Henry VII, type IV, Sovereign
Sold for £28,750