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NYINC Signature Sale 3061 7-8 Jan 2018
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George VI stainless steel Trial Strike Shilling 1952 MS66 NGC Royal mint, FT326, KM-TS3. Thick flan, horizontal TRIAL reverse. From the collector: "A trial piece struck in stainless steel on a thick flan weighing 5.068gm. The word "TRIAL" in relief vertically in front of face on obverse and horizontally above date figures 52 on the reverse." A wonderfully preserved example, with light gunmetal toning on both sides. Missing from both the Diana and Arielle Collections. To provide a somewhat comparable example, the Diana Collection possessed a King's Norton mint aluminum trial strike that was supposedly one of two known (Baldwin's 58, lot 1445); that piece hammered at £1,100, or over $2,000 at the time. Apparently extremely rare, in addition to being an objectively attractive strike.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 1000-1200 USD
George VI stainless steel Trial Strike Shilling 1952 MS66 NGC Royal mint, FT326, KM-TS3. Thick flan, horizontal TRIAL reverse. From the collector: "A trial piece struck in stainless steel on a thick flan weighing 5.068gm. The word "TRIAL" in relief vertically in front of face on obverse and horizontally above date figures 52 on the reverse." A wonderfully preserved example, with light gunmetal toning on both sides. Missing from both the Diana and Arielle Collections. To provide a somewhat comparable example, the Diana Collection possessed a King's Norton mint aluminum trial strike that was supposedly one of two known (Baldwin's 58, lot 1445); that piece hammered at £1,100, or over $2,000 at the time. Apparently extremely rare, in addition to being an objectively attractive strike.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 1000-1200 USD