The "Vigo Bay" collection of important English gold coins, [including] the celebrated "Vigo" Queen Anne, five-guineas, 1703; [as well as] the George III pattern five-guineas of 1770; [and] Pistrucci's famous pattern five-pound piece of 1820; a superb proof set of the George IV first coinage of 1821; [and] the new issue coinage proof set of 1826; the William IV Coronation proof set of 1831; Queen Victoria's "Una and the Lion" proof set of 1839; [and] the Golden Jubilee coinage of 1887; [etc.] ...
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