Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
January 2022 NYINC Auction 14-16 Jan 2022
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GREAT BRITAIN. Shilling, 1839. London Mint. Victoria. NGC PROOF-64 Cameo.
S-3904; KM-734.1; ESC-1284. Variety with plain edge, no W.W. on truncation, and medal alignment. An exceptionally wonderous representative of English coinage, this example comes from Victoria's first proof set. Deep and vibrant tone displays a mostly cherry red appearance that transmutes into nearly the full visible spectrum when held at an angle to the light. An attractive light frost on the devices ennobles this piece with a cameo contrast, so designated by NGC. Some light marks are the only hinderance to this example reaching even higher on the Sheldon scale. In the nearly half-millennia history of the Shilling, this type might have a case for the most beautiful, and this example of that type is possibly one of the nicest examples thereof.
Estimate: $2500 - $3500
S-3904; KM-734.1; ESC-1284. Variety with plain edge, no W.W. on truncation, and medal alignment. An exceptionally wonderous representative of English coinage, this example comes from Victoria's first proof set. Deep and vibrant tone displays a mostly cherry red appearance that transmutes into nearly the full visible spectrum when held at an angle to the light. An attractive light frost on the devices ennobles this piece with a cameo contrast, so designated by NGC. Some light marks are the only hinderance to this example reaching even higher on the Sheldon scale. In the nearly half-millennia history of the Shilling, this type might have a case for the most beautiful, and this example of that type is possibly one of the nicest examples thereof.
Estimate: $2500 - $3500