£7,500 - £8,500
Victoria 1887 11 Coin Golden Jubilee Set. An eleven-coin specimen set from Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee year: 1887. This set contains four gold coins and seven silver coins, including a Five Pound, Two Pound, Sovereign, Half Sovereign, Crown, Double Florin, Half Crown, Florin, Shilling, Sixpence and Threepence, all dated 1887. Each piece bears Joseph Edgar Boehm’s Jubilee Portrait of Victoria, introduced in this year: the first coinage portrait specifically introduced to mark a jubilee. This year is also significant in that it saw the gold Five Pound coin enter circulation and the introduction of the second circulating gold Two Pound coin. Silver pieces are generally EF. Gold pieces are generally EF with the twopound being NGC graded at MS62, the fivepound would grade similar. The set is contained in an antique silk and velvet lined box (excluding the graded twopounds).
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