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2. Guinea (coin) - Wikipedia

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   It was the first English machine-struck gold coin, originally representing a value of 20 shillings in sterling specie, equal to one pound, [2] but rises in the price of gold relative to silver caused the value of the guinea to increase, at times to as high as thirty shillings. From 1717 to 1816, its value was officially fixed at twenty-one ...

3. Two guineas (British coin) - Wikipedia

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   The two guinea piece was a gold coin first minted in England in 1664 with a face value of forty shillings. The source of the gold used, also provided the coin its name - the "guinea", with the regular addition of an elephant or castle symbol on the earliest issues to denote bullion supplied by the Royal African Company. For most of its period ...

4. List of most expensive coins - Wikipedia

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   List of most expensive coins Price Year Type Grade Issuing country Provenance Firm Date of sale $18,900,000 1933 1933 double eagle: MS-65 CAC United States: King Farouk of Egypt: Sotheby's [1] June 8, 2021 $12,000,000 1794 Flowing Hair dollar: SP-66 CAC United States Neil, Carter Private sale [2] January 24, 2013 $9,360,000 1787 Brasher ...

5. List of bullion coins - Wikipedia

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   Bullion coins are government-minted, legal tender coins made of precious metals, such as gold, palladium, platinum, rhodium, and silver. They are kept as a store of value or an investment rather than used in day-to-day commerce. [1]

6. How Much Is a Gold Bar Worth?

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   Coins: Unlike rounds, gold coins are legal tender that, according to Private Bullion, always display the coin’s weight, purity, face value and year. They’re highly collectible because they ...

7. Five guineas (British coin) - Wikipedia

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   The Five Guinea was a machine-struck gold coin produced from 1668–1753. Measuring 37 millimetres in diameter and weighing between 41 and 42 grams, it was the largest regularly produced gold coin in Britain .

8. Guinea Pigs Get a Christmas Feast and It's the Cutest Thing ...

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   It could be that they were sold for a guinea (a gold coin made with gold from Guinea). Also, boats from South America on the way to Europe may have stopped over in Guinea, which may have given ...

9. Five pounds (gold coin) - Wikipedia

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   The five guinea gold coin started out in 1668 as a coin worth one hundred shillings (five pounds), and was sometimes called a five-pound coin. This was before the fluctuating value of the guinea settled at twenty-one shillings in 1717.