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Auction 8  15 Feb 2023
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Lot 161

Starting price: 400 GBP
Price realized: 400 GBP
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Edward VII (1901-10), silver Halfcrown, 1908, bare head right, DeS below truncation for engraver George William De Saulles, Latin legend and toothed border surrounding, EDWARDVS VII D: G: BRITT: OMN: REX, rev. crowned quartered shield of arms, garter motto in Old French surrounding, HONI. SOIT. QUI. MAL. Y. PENSE., beaded border surrounding, abbreviated Latin legend in upper half, FID: DEF: IND: IMP:, date dividing denomination HALF CROWN in lower half, edge milled (Bull 3574; ESC 753; Spink 3980). Toned, with some light digs around the neck, graded by PCGS as MS63, only one example graded higher.

PCGS Certification 206166.63/83674093

Calendar year mintage 1,758,800.

The Latin legends translate on the obverse as "Edward the Seventh by the Grace of God, King of the Britons," continuing on the reverse as "Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India."
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