George II gold "East India Company" 5 Guineas 1729 AU58 NGC, KM571.2, S-3664, Schneider-556. A beautiful representative of this rare "signed" 5 Guineas, closely connected with the history of the British East India Company, an organization which eventually rose to account for half of the entire world's trade, bolstering the financial and territorial roots of the British Empire and serving an integral part in the events leading up to the American Revolution. Not often a coin which is readily procured free of issues, let alone so nearly Mint State, this coin displays an astounding level of both clarity and brilliance for the assigned grade. Likely bound in its designation by just a minimal degree of high-point friction and scattered light surface chatter, whether viewing the coin head-on or at a tilt, its lustrous qualities and bold reliefs are immediately apparent. Glassy elements that decorate the open fields well in the curls of George's coiffure, creating a perceptible depth to designs that are normally found flatly rendered. Though predominantly honey gold, a ring of goldfish-orange tone has begun to take to the margins, rounding out the coin's splendid eye appeal.

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