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Auction 109  4-5 Nov 2020
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Lot 489

Starting price: 80 000 GBP
Price realized: 130 000 GBP
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Victoria, young head, proof 'Una and the Lion' five-pounds, 1839, by William Wyon, bust left with hair bound in two decorated fillets, the front showing five full scrolls above the ear and the rear with nine leaves fully visible, rev., dirige deus gressus meos., the Queen, as Una, guiding the British lion, holding orb and sceptre and wearing a mantle with Garter star, in ex., date mdcccxxxix, lettered edge reads [rose stop] decus et tutamen [rose stop] anno regni tertio between wire-line raised rims, 36.12g (L. & S. 18; W. & R. 279; Douglas-Morris 230; S. 3851), several surface scratches and marks and surface has been lightly tooled at the Queen's neck, thus about extremely fine, in NGC holder graded proof details – repaired, rare
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