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STUART. Anne. 1702-1714. AV 5 Guineas. Dated 1706. Transitional issue dated before the Union, but with Post-Union types. Holloway 68; Bull, Gold 448; MCE 200; Schneider 599; SCBC 3566. Warm red toning. In NGC encapsulation 6066351-003, graded MS 61. Rare.
Ex Paramount Collection (Heritage 3096, 25 March 2021), lot 30310.
The monarchies of England and Scotland had been in personal union since the accession of James VI of Scotland to the throne of England as James I following death of Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1602. This arrangement was not always comfortable for the two neighboring countries, particularly under Charles I and the restored Stuart monarchs later in the 17th century, and the two parliaments often found themselves opposed. On 22 July 1706, the Treaty of Union was signed by the two countries, officially beginning the process of joining the two nations to be completed on 1 May 1707, when the Parliament of Scotland and the Parliament of England each signed the respective Acts of Union.
This imposing gold coin bears the features the 1706 date combined coat-of-arms of England and Scotland, adopted on the rest of the English coinage in 1707, indicating it was produced in the intervening period between the Treaty of Union and the Acts of Union.
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