Watch List notes:

THE BENTLEY COLLECTION OF BRITISH MILLED GOLD SOVEREIGNS. George III (1760-1820), Pattern Sovereign 1816, struck in silver, engraved by Thomas Wyon Jnr after Pistrucci’s model, laureate head right, with ties at back, four leaves at top of laurel wreath that consists of 13 leaves, toothed border both sides, legend GEORGIUS III DEI GRATIA, no punctuation, rev struck en médaille, crowned square shield of arms, quartered with the arms of Hanover as an escutcheon, five strings to Irish harp, crown with eleven jewels on left arch, twelve on right arch, central crown upright with parallel vertical lines of jewels, five to left and six to right, date 18 16 below arms, legend BRITTANIARUM REX FID: DEF: with colon stops, edge obliquely grained milling, 5.57g, 23.1mm (cf WR 187; Montagu 587). Once polished and lacquered, as is typical of King Farouk provenance pieces, and a little unevenly toned, otherwise good extremely fine and of the highest rarity.
ex King Farouk, Palace Collections of Egypt, Sothebys, from 24 February 1954, Cairo, Egypt, lot 2334 (part)
Herman Selig Collection (part II), Coins of George III, Spink Auction 131, 2 March 1999, lot 1168
The key features of this early pattern are Wyon’s George III portrait as used and adopted for the silver Shilling, the 13 leaf wreath with four leaves at the top, five strings to the Irish harp, and the crown on shield with 11/12 pearl arrangement with a 5/6 arrangement on the central vertical.The Reign of King George III (1760-1820)
House of Hanover
Born: 4 June 1738
Accession: 25 October 1760
Married: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 8 September 1761
the day they met for the first time.
Coronation: Tuesday, 22 September 1761
Children: nine sons, six daughters
Died: 29 January 1820, aged 81

Estimate: £4000-6000