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Five Guineas: Anne (obverse); Shields and rose (reverse)
The collection record classifies this work as coins. It is dated 1703. Recorded culture or place: England, Anne, 1702-1714.
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- Museum title
- Five Guineas: Anne (obverse); Shields and rose (reverse)
- Date
- 1703
- Culture / origin
- England, Anne, 1702-1714
- Materials and technique
- gold
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 2.9 cm (1 1/8 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1969.203
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
The coinage during Anne's reign remained fairly constant to the designs inaugurated in 1662. Before the Act of Union with Scotland (1706), the arms of England and Scotland remained separate, as shown. After the act the two arms were conjoined on one shield. The word Vigo denotes that the coins were struck from gold captured from the Spanish at the Battle of Vigo Bay (1702). Although silver coins bearing the Vigo inscription are less rare, the three gold denominations bearing the symbol are all extremely rare.
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