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Auction 22096  8 Dec 2022
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Lot 23

Starting price: 1000 GBP
Price realized: 1500 GBP
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The St. Albans Collection of English Gold Coins | NGC AU Details | George I (1714-1727), Guinea, 1716, third laureate head right, no hair below truncation, rev. small S in S R I A, crowned shields cruciform, eight strings to harp, seven hearts, emblem-adorned sceptres in angles, edge obliquely milled, 8.36g, 5h (MCE 248; Farey 600; EGC 505; Spink 3630), lightly wiped with subtle smoothing in third quarter of reverse, a scarcely perceptible rim bruise at reverse 2 o'clock, otherwise residually lustrous especially so in recesses, struck details a pleasingly bold very fine, rare thus and not to be mistaken for the more frequently encountered fourth bust issue, with NGC 'St Albans' Certification, graded AU Details ~ Cleaned (#6295553-033).
Provenance
'A Distinguished Collection', purchased en bloc via Spink, August 2018,
M Roberts, by private treaty, 2011 - £1,900
Spink 208, 22-23 June 2011, lot 991 - "good very fine" - £1,200
Estimate: £1800 - £2400
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