Stanley Gibbons Baldwin's
Auction 79 8 May 2013
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The Bentley Collection of British Milled Gold Sovereigns
Extremely Rare George IV 1830 Proof Sovereign Struck en médaille
George IV, Proof Sovereign, 1830, 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 en médaille, 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, 7.99g (WR -; Montagu -; Murdoch -; Nobleman -; Douglas-Morris -; S 3801). Some very light surface marks on obverse, one tiny spot above legend on reverse, otherwise toned, as struck and the only known example in private hands, a superb coin.
ex DNW auction, 28 September 2005, lot 951
This milled edge proof of 1830 carries eight hearts in the Hanoverian Arms like the currency pieces, as opposed to the seven heart semée plain edge piece published in part one of the Bentley Collection for the very first time, it also has an upright axis. The 1830 Proof was only discovered, confirmed by the Royal Mint and sold for the first time publicly in 2005 at DNW where Noble Investments bought it on behalf of the Bentley collector.
The coin was unknown to Wilson and Rasmussen and it was reported that the vendor at the auction had owned it since the 1960s when it was purchased from a coin dealer. Unique in private hands and preserved in the best of quality, this is one of the key pieces of George IV in the collection.
George IV died 26 June 1830
Estimate: £25,000-30,000
The Bentley Collection of British Milled Gold Sovereigns
Extremely Rare George IV 1830 Proof Sovereign Struck en médaille
George IV, Proof Sovereign, 1830, 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 en médaille, 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, 7.99g (WR -; Montagu -; Murdoch -; Nobleman -; Douglas-Morris -; S 3801). Some very light surface marks on obverse, one tiny spot above legend on reverse, otherwise toned, as struck and the only known example in private hands, a superb coin.
ex DNW auction, 28 September 2005, lot 951
This milled edge proof of 1830 carries eight hearts in the Hanoverian Arms like the currency pieces, as opposed to the seven heart semée plain edge piece published in part one of the Bentley Collection for the very first time, it also has an upright axis. The 1830 Proof was only discovered, confirmed by the Royal Mint and sold for the first time publicly in 2005 at DNW where Noble Investments bought it on behalf of the Bentley collector.
The coin was unknown to Wilson and Rasmussen and it was reported that the vendor at the auction had owned it since the 1960s when it was purchased from a coin dealer. Unique in private hands and preserved in the best of quality, this is one of the key pieces of George IV in the collection.
George IV died 26 June 1830
Estimate: £25,000-30,000