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Victorian-era £5 gold coin showing 20-year-old Queen leading a lion sells for a record £530,000

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Victorian-era £5 gold coin showing the 20-year-old Queen leading a lion representing the burgeoning British Empire sells for a record £530,000

The 1839 ‘Victoria Una and the Lion’ five pound shows the queen leading a lion

Shows Victoria as Una, from Edmund Spenser’s Elizabethan poem Faerie Queene

Only 400 of the gold coins, by William Wyon, of the Royal Mint, were ever struck

It had been…