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Auction 21154  22 Sep 2021
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Lot 6733

Starting price: 2500 GBP
Price realized: 4800 GBP
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The Uvedale Collection | MS62 | George II (1727-1760), Two-Guineas, 1738, first younger laureate head left, stop above head, rev. crowned garnished shield with rounded arches, seven strings to harp, edge obliquely milled, 16.81g, 6h (SNC, February 1957, pp. 55; Stratos 164 same dies; EGC 568; Schneider II, 570/-, dies 4/1, edge A; MCE 291; Spink 3667B), traces of smoothing on hair to mask adjustment marks with resulting softness in corresponding area of reverse, otherwise lustrous and quite brilliant, approaching extremely fine, the seven-string variety very rare for date, in NGC holder, graded MS62 (Cert. 6135269-007).
Purchased May 1997
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From our spectacular Stratos Sale (London, 15 September 2020, lot 164), the following footnote was appended: 'Herbert Schneider in his article for the Spink Numismatic Circular (February 1957, pp. 43-55) records this die combination from only one example that he traced through the Dominic Mitchell dispersal (Glendining, 27 April 1949, lot 97). A further example surfaced through the Douglas-Morris collection in 1974, and has recently reappeared in the London market place (SR, 25 September 2018, lot 79). Evidently the seven-string harp die for 1738 remains particularly elusive.'
Estimate: £3000 - £4000
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