1718, Great Britain, George I. Beautiful Gold 1/4 Guinea Coin. Rare! PCGS MS-62

  
1718, Great Britain, George I. Beautiful Gold 1/4 Guinea Coin. Mint Year: 1718 Denomination: Gold Guinea Reference: Friedberg 331, S-3638, KM-555. Certified and graded by PCGS as MS-62! - Amazing appearance for the grade, much more attractive most other available MS-63 graded specimens!

917 Diameter: 15mm Weight: 2.1gm. Obverse: Laureate head of George I right. Reverse: Crowned cruciform coat-of-arms of the United Kingdom with four scepters in fields. The guinea was a coin, minted in Great Britain between 1663 and 1814, that contained approximately one-quarter of an ounce of gold. The name came from the Guinea region in West Africa, from where much of the gold used to make the coins was sourced.

It was the first English machine-struck gold coin, originally worth one pound sterling, equal to twenty shillings, 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 shillings.

George I George Louis; German. 28 May 1660 - 11 June 1727 was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) within the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727. He was the first British monarch of the House of Hanover. Born in Hanover to Ernest Augustus and Sophia of Hanover, George inherited the titles and lands of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg from his father and uncles. A succession of European wars expanded his German domains during his lifetime; he was ratified as prince-elector of Hanover in 1708.

After the deaths in 1714 of his mother, and his second cousin Anne, Queen of Great Britain, George ascended the British throne as Anne's closest living Protestant relative under the Act of Settlement 1701. Jacobites attempted, but failed, to depose George and replace him with James Francis Edward Stuart, Anne's Catholic half-brother. During George's reign, the powers of the monarchy diminished and Britain began a transition to the modern system of cabinet government led by a prime minister. Towards the end of his reign, actual political power was held by Robert Walpole, now recognised as Britain's first.

George died of a stroke on a trip to his native Hanover, where he was buried. He is the most recent British monarch to be buried outside the United Kingdom. This item is in the category "Coins & Paper Money\Coins: World\Europe\UK (Great Britain)\Gold". The seller is "coinworldtv" and is located in this country: AT. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Circulated/Uncirculated: Uncirculated
• Composition: Gold
• Country/Region of Manufacture: Guinea
• Certification: PCGS
• Denomination: 1/4 Guinea
• KM Number: 555
• Grade: MS 62
• Year: 1718