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Auction 5  15 Mar 2022
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Lot 61

Starting price: 1600 GBP
Price realized: 2600 GBP
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MS63 | George IV (1820-30), gold Sovereign, 1822, first laureate head left, B.P. for Benedetto Pistrucci below neck, legend and toothed border surrounding, GEORGIUS IIII D: G: BRITANNIAR: REX F:D:, rev. die axis slightly off-centre, St. George and dragon right, date in exergue, B.P. to upper right of exergue for designer and engraver Benedetto Pistrucci, raised WWP on ground line below lance for Master of the Mint William Wellesley Pole, 8.01g (Bentley 13; Marsh 6; S.3800). Lustrous, a far superior specimen for this early Sovereign, graded by PCGS as MS63.

PCGS Certification 14689071

Calendar year mintage 6,356,787.

The Latin legends translate to on obverse "George the Fourth by the Grace of God, King of the Britons, Defender of the Faith."

(£2,000-£3,000)
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