Watch List notes:

HANOVER. Victoria. 1837-1901. Proof AR Crown (37mm, 28.20 g, 6h). Young head coinage. Gothic type. London mint. Dually dated 1847 (in Roman numerals) and RY undecimo. Crowned and mantled bust left / Crowned cruciform coats-of-arms around Order of the Garter; rose, thistle, and shamrock in quarters composed of arches ending in lis. ESC 288; SCBC 3883. Proof, lightly toned, once cleaned, hairlines and tooling marks in the fields and on Irish shield. SOLD AS IS.

From the WN Collection. Ex Status International 246 (16 May 2005), lot 9139.