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Baldwin's of St. James's
Auction 14  14 Jan 2018
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Lot 193

Estimate: 2500 USD
Price realized: 4000 USD
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British Coins, Victoria, sovereign, 1853, WW in relief, young head l., rev. crowned shield of arms within wreath (S.3852C), certified and graded by NGC as Mint State 66, a wonderful example of this issue, gleaming with satiny lustre, displaying a fine portrait as well as (unusually) a fully detailed royal shield, the obverse showing only tiny abrasions while the reverse is virtually flawless, streaming die-breaks on obverse winding beneath GRATIA and in a fine line across the queen's neckline and cumulating heavily to left of the date down to the beading, and on reverse a fine die-crack through RE to the top right tip of the shield
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