Una and the Lion

1839 Una and the Lion gold five pounds, Great Britain, engraved by William Wyon. This showpiece was never meant for anyone's pocket. It was made mainly for the specimen sets of Queen Victoria's first coins, and no more than a few hundred were struck. Wyon cut both sides: the young queen's portrait on the left, and on the right a scene drawn from Spenser's Faerie Queene that casts Victoria as Una, guiding the British lion with a scepter in her hand. This proof is in the Smithsonian's National Numismatic Collection.