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Kid’s ‘pirate treasure’ turns out to be a rare gold coin worth nearly $280,000
A London-area auction house sold one of Britain’s rarest coins on Wednesday, a coveted Queen Anne “Vigo” 5-guinea ... northern Spain, in 1702. It is one of only 15 known to have survived ...
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Kid’s ‘toy’ coin turns out to be worth £250,000
The Queen Anne ‘Vigo’ five guinea coin is just one of 20 made from 7.5lbs of gold seized from Spanish treasure ships by the British in Vigo Bay, northern Spain in 1702. It belongs to a man who ...
The Sun8y
Labourer lands £250,000 windfall after discovering rarest British coin ever made in his four-year-old son’s treasure chest
The 35-year-old labourer was given the "lost" 300 year old Queen Anne Vigo five guinea coin by his late grandfather ... treasure ships by the British in 1702 following the Battle of Vigo.
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Rare gold coin worth £250,000 found in toy treasure chest
The Queen Anne Vigo coin was one of 20 minted ... a city in southwest Spain, in 1702. The fleet managed to seize gold and silver from Franco-Spanish treasure ships. One of the Vigo coins was ...