Half guinea of George III

A detectorist named Ronan sent in the images of this 20mm diameter gold coin. I was asked to grade the coin and to provide a valuation on it.

Ronan’s find is a half guinea of George III. It has the fourth head on the obverse and is dated 1776 on the reverse. The date is scarcer than some other half guineas of the same type.

Valuation

The coin would grade VF and has no visible faults so it is much better than most detecting finds. Over recent months gold coins have risen quite sharply in value due to the seemingly ever increasing price of gold bullion on the international market. If this half guinea was offered for sale at auction I would expect the pre-sale estimate to be no lower than £800-900.

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