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Auction 18025  30-31 Oct 2018
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Lot 418

Starting price: 850 GBP
Price realized: 1900 GBP
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George III (1760-1820), Pattern Shilling, 1778, by Richard Yeo, struck on a heavier flan, stop after gratia, intermediate laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, rev. inverted die axis, crowned shields cruciform, edge plain, 6.52g (cf. Clark 491; cf. Slaney II, 510; cf. ESC 2169 [R3] {cf. 1240}; S-), once cleaned, nevertheless retaining some residual brilliance, extremely fine thus, coin alignment not recorded by Bull for the heavier flan issue, very rare.
provenance
Spink Numismatic Circular, October 1995, no. 5641 - £1,000
Estimate: £1200 - £1500
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