Una and the Lion Coin Sells for $1 Million

At an auction in Switzerland, bidders ravage historical gold coins that an anonymous collector buried decades ago. The current price of the precious metal contributes to this.

Una and the Lion Coin Sells for $1 Million

Prototype of the ‘’Una and the Lion’ £5 coin of Victoria, Courtesy of Numismatica Ars Classica. By CoinWeek… On May 20, 2025, the first auction of the Traveller Collection in Zürich saw an exceptionally rare “Una and the Lion” pattern coin from Queen Victoria’s reign fetch CHF 980,000 ($1,188,330), marking only the eighth time a British coin has sold for over $1 million. The auction, featuring 220 British coins, sold for CHF 6,341,200 ($7,680,34…