Watch List notes:

William III (1694-1702), Great Recoinage, London, Second Bust, Sixpences (4), 1696, inverted A for second V in GVLIELMVS [?], stop thereafter, but no stop after GRA, second laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, extra hair curl across breast, rev. no stop between 96 and MAG, small crowned shields cruciform, four strings to harp, seven billets, 2.73g, 6h (Bull 1232/1217 [R4]; ESC 1550), rather flat as usual for type, the muling unknown to Bull, strictly good to fair, extremely rare; also, 1697 (3), similar, rev. no stop between BR FRA, five strings, seven billets, 2.84g, 6h (Bull 1224; ESC 1564), crimp at V of GVLIELMVS, fair / fine, rare; another, re-entered M in GVLIELMVS, rev. 'untidy legend', stop between BR FRA, four strings, 2.80g, 7h (Bull 1226 [R5]; ESC 1564), fields smoothed in antiquity with residual flawing, largely retoned, struck details good, rare; lastly, reading GVLIEMVS [sic] in error, rev. four strings, seven billets, 2.98g, 7h (Bull 1229 [R4]; ESC 1565; Spink 3537), off-struck as the Slaney parallel specimen, this with granular and flawed surfaces, graffiti across bust, otherwise struck details fair, the die-sinker's error clear, very rare; a remarkable quartet of the fabled second bust issues of William III including the probable 1696 Pattern issue (4).
Provenance
i) Format, Birmingham, 4 August 1993
ii) D G Barney, Colyton (Devon), 4 August 1993
iii) By private treaty, 16 August 1996
iv) Format, Birmingham, 16 August 1996
Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00