Richard III Coin Found Near Bosworth Battlefield Sells For £36,000 at Spink
Dec 05 2012

RICHARD III COIN FOUND NEAR BOSWORTH BATTLEFIELD SELLS FOR £36,000AT SPINK             London. December 5th, 2012. A gold coin discovered near the site of the famous Battle of Bosworth in Leicestershire, bearing Richard III's personal emblem of the boar, has sold for £36,000 to a private collector, against a pre-sale estimate of £12-15,000 at Spink in London. It went under the hammer in Spink's Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medal...

Richard III Coin Found Near Bosworth Battlefield
Nov 12 2012

RICHARD III COIN FOUND NEAR BOSWORTH BATTLEFIELD      London. Monday November 12, 2012. A historical gold coin bearing Richard III's personal emblem of the boar, has been discovered near the site of the famous Battle of Bosworth in Leicestershire and is set to cause much excitement when it goes under the hammer in Spink's Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals sale in London, on December 4th & 5th, 2012.   While badges, sword mounts and cann...

First Scottish coin realises three times estimate
Jun 28 2012

London. June 28, 2012. Today Spink, the world's premier auction house for collectables, sold the first known coin ever issued in Scotland for the staggering price of £8,400. The penny, discovered near Harrogate in North Yorkshire in 1998, is one of less than only ten known examples ever found and existing today, making it exceptionally rare. The coin was purchased by a private collector in the room, for more than three times its pre-sale low estimate of £2,500 at Spink's UK headquarters in Lond...