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About Una and the Lion
The Una and the Lion is a British £5 gold coin depicting Queen Victoria. It is characterized by the Royal Mint Museum as "one of the most beautiful coins in the world." Designed by William Wyon in 1839, it commemorates the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign. The coins were first produced in 1839 and were intended for collector sets rather than for circulation. The production ran to a few hundred coins including a number of variations such as different metals, different hairbands on the depiction of the queen, different edge types, and a variation in the reverse inscription.
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