Stanley Gibbons Baldwin's
Auction 76 27 September 2012
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THE BENTLEY COLLECTION OF MILLED GOLD SOVEREIGNS.
PART TWO. Royal Mint Issues – London. Very Rare 1825 Milled Edge Proof Sovereign with Eight Heart Semée in the Arms. George IV, Proof Sovereign, 1825, engraved by William Wyon after Francis Chantrey's model, second bare head left, date below, rosette either side, toothed border and raised rim both sides, GEORGIUS IV DEI GRATIA, rev struck with inverted die axis, by Jean Baptiste Merlen, crowned quartered shield of arms, with the arms of Hanover as an escutcheon, eight hearts in semée of Hanoverian lion, two upper lis of inner frame around Scottish lion incomplete, Irish arms with nine harp strings, re-touched frosting on design elements, leaving finest detail indistinct, evident on crown band, BRITANNIARUM REX FID: DEF:, edge milled, 8.03g (WR 236 R5; Montagu 930; Murdoch 382 (part); Nobleman 137 (part); DM 159; S 3801). Lightly hairlined, otherwise as struck and very rare.
This milled edge 1825 proof carries eight hearts in the Hanoverian Arms like the currency pieces, as opposed to the seven heart semée plain edge piece (published for the very first time in part one of the Bentley Collection).
All the denominations issued for the current new coinage of the second type of George IV in 1825 were also produced to proof quality, no doubt to present to officials and very important persons, and included a pattern gold Five Pounds, Two Pounds and silver Crown that were not current this year. Additionally, Pistrucci himself would be able to supply proofs to whomever he pleased or to those who would commission him to do so. These very rare proofs of 1825 were obviously in demand, as they led directly to the sale of entire Proof Sets in cases from the following year (1826). Proof Sets then began to be produced on a more regular basis for Coronations, Jubilees and new coinages
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Estimate: £6000-8000
PART TWO. Royal Mint Issues – London. Very Rare 1825 Milled Edge Proof Sovereign with Eight Heart Semée in the Arms. George IV, Proof Sovereign, 1825, engraved by William Wyon after Francis Chantrey's model, second bare head left, date below, rosette either side, toothed border and raised rim both sides, GEORGIUS IV DEI GRATIA, rev struck with inverted die axis, by Jean Baptiste Merlen, crowned quartered shield of arms, with the arms of Hanover as an escutcheon, eight hearts in semée of Hanoverian lion, two upper lis of inner frame around Scottish lion incomplete, Irish arms with nine harp strings, re-touched frosting on design elements, leaving finest detail indistinct, evident on crown band, BRITANNIARUM REX FID: DEF:, edge milled, 8.03g (WR 236 R5; Montagu 930; Murdoch 382 (part); Nobleman 137 (part); DM 159; S 3801). Lightly hairlined, otherwise as struck and very rare.
This milled edge 1825 proof carries eight hearts in the Hanoverian Arms like the currency pieces, as opposed to the seven heart semée plain edge piece (published for the very first time in part one of the Bentley Collection).
All the denominations issued for the current new coinage of the second type of George IV in 1825 were also produced to proof quality, no doubt to present to officials and very important persons, and included a pattern gold Five Pounds, Two Pounds and silver Crown that were not current this year. Additionally, Pistrucci himself would be able to supply proofs to whomever he pleased or to those who would commission him to do so. These very rare proofs of 1825 were obviously in demand, as they led directly to the sale of entire Proof Sets in cases from the following year (1826). Proof Sets then began to be produced on a more regular basis for Coronations, Jubilees and new coinages
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Estimate: £6000-8000