MS64+ | George III (1760-1820), silver Crown, 1819 LIX, laureate head right, PISTRUCCI below truncation, date below, Latin legend and toothed border surrounding, GEORGIUS III D: G: BRITANNIARUM REX F: D: rev. St. George and dragon right, PISTRUCCI in exergue, Order of the Garter motto in French surrounding, .HONI . SOIT. QUI. MAL . Y. PENSE. edge inscribed in raised letters and dated, DECUS ET TUTAMEN* ANNO REGNI LIX*, 28.32g (Bull 2010; Davies 5; ESC 215; S.3787). Attractively toned, with some light surface marks, has been graded by NGC as MS64+.

NGC Certification 6031695-014.

The Latin legend translate as on the obverse "George the Third, by the grace of God, King of the Britains, Defender of the Faith" and the French on the reverse, "Evil to him who evil thinks," additionally on the edge "An ornament and a safeguard, in the fifty ninth year of the reign".

Provenance:
Purchased from Colin Cooke Ltd, 2009.

(£800-£1,000)