Stanley Gibbons Baldwin's
Auction 79 8 May 2013
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The Bentley Collection of British Milled Gold Sovereigns
Extremely Rare William IV 1832 Proof Sovereign with First Bust
William IV, Proof Sovereign, 1832, by William Wyon after Francis Chantrey's model, first bare head right with finer hair and round topped ear, W.W. incuse fully on truncation, first W meets field, nose points to second N in BRITANNIAR, GULIELMUS IIII D: G: BRITANNIAR REX F: D:, finer toothed border and raised rim both sides, rev struck with inverted die axis, by Jean Baptiste Merlen, crowned quartered shield of arms, with the arms of Hanover as an escutcheon, Irish arms with eight harp strings, ANNO 1831 below, lettering doubled, finer taller border teeth, edge milled, 7.97g, 22mm (WR 263 R7, this coin; Douglas-Morris -; S 3829). Lightly hairlined in fields both sides, otherwise practically as struck and of highest rarity, only two examples known to cataloguer, this coin being the plate coin in Wilson and Rasmussen.
ex Spink Auction 107, 22 November 1994, lot 428
Estimate: £10,000-15,000
The Bentley Collection of British Milled Gold Sovereigns
Extremely Rare William IV 1832 Proof Sovereign with First Bust
William IV, Proof Sovereign, 1832, by William Wyon after Francis Chantrey's model, first bare head right with finer hair and round topped ear, W.W. incuse fully on truncation, first W meets field, nose points to second N in BRITANNIAR, GULIELMUS IIII D: G: BRITANNIAR REX F: D:, finer toothed border and raised rim both sides, rev struck with inverted die axis, by Jean Baptiste Merlen, crowned quartered shield of arms, with the arms of Hanover as an escutcheon, Irish arms with eight harp strings, ANNO 1831 below, lettering doubled, finer taller border teeth, edge milled, 7.97g, 22mm (WR 263 R7, this coin; Douglas-Morris -; S 3829). Lightly hairlined in fields both sides, otherwise practically as struck and of highest rarity, only two examples known to cataloguer, this coin being the plate coin in Wilson and Rasmussen.
ex Spink Auction 107, 22 November 1994, lot 428
Estimate: £10,000-15,000