Stanley Gibbons Baldwin's
Auction 76 27 September 2012
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THE BENTLEY COLLECTION OF MILLED GOLD SOVEREIGNS.
PART TWO. Royal Mint Issues – London. An Extremely Rare Pattern Sovereign of 1816, Milled Edge Engraved by Thomas Wyon. George III (1760-1820), Pattern Sovereign 1816, engraved by Thomas Wyon Jnr. after Pistrucci's cameo, larger laureate head right, with ties at rear, four distinct leaves at top of laurel wreath that consists of 14 leaves, toothed border both sides, obverse struck slightly off-centre, legend in small letters both sides, GEORGIUS III D: G: BRITT: REX F: D:, rev struck en médaille, die flaw into crown and another in legend, crowned square shield of arms quartered with the arms of Hanover as an escutcheon, 5 strings to Irish harp, crown with 12 jewels on each arch, central crown upright with parallel vertical lines of 6 jewels, taller cross on crown with horizontal line separating it from orb below, date 18 16 below arms lightly double struck, legend BRITTANIARUM REX FID: DEF: edge, straight grained milled, 7.97g, 22.1mm (WR 186 R6 this coin; Murdoch 187; DM -). Tiny pin-point sized black spots below ear lobe, lightly toned, otherwise mint state and extremely rare.
ex Virgil M Brand collection, dispersed post mortem from 1932.
ex Herman Selig collection, Spink Auction 131, 2 March 1999, lot 1171 – the plate coin in Wilson and Rasmussen.
The key features of this proposed pattern engraved by Wyon are the portrait with 14 leaf wreath, five strings to the Irish harp and the crown arranged with pearls on the arches evenly balanced at twelve per side and six on each side of the central vertical. This is the companion piece to Lot 2 of the Bentley Collection which has a plain edge; we note that the milled edge piece offered here is of a significantly lower weight than the heavy weight plain edge piece.
Estimate: £15,000-20,000
PART TWO. Royal Mint Issues – London. An Extremely Rare Pattern Sovereign of 1816, Milled Edge Engraved by Thomas Wyon. George III (1760-1820), Pattern Sovereign 1816, engraved by Thomas Wyon Jnr. after Pistrucci's cameo, larger laureate head right, with ties at rear, four distinct leaves at top of laurel wreath that consists of 14 leaves, toothed border both sides, obverse struck slightly off-centre, legend in small letters both sides, GEORGIUS III D: G: BRITT: REX F: D:, rev struck en médaille, die flaw into crown and another in legend, crowned square shield of arms quartered with the arms of Hanover as an escutcheon, 5 strings to Irish harp, crown with 12 jewels on each arch, central crown upright with parallel vertical lines of 6 jewels, taller cross on crown with horizontal line separating it from orb below, date 18 16 below arms lightly double struck, legend BRITTANIARUM REX FID: DEF: edge, straight grained milled, 7.97g, 22.1mm (WR 186 R6 this coin; Murdoch 187; DM -). Tiny pin-point sized black spots below ear lobe, lightly toned, otherwise mint state and extremely rare.
ex Virgil M Brand collection, dispersed post mortem from 1932.
ex Herman Selig collection, Spink Auction 131, 2 March 1999, lot 1171 – the plate coin in Wilson and Rasmussen.
The key features of this proposed pattern engraved by Wyon are the portrait with 14 leaf wreath, five strings to the Irish harp and the crown arranged with pearls on the arches evenly balanced at twelve per side and six on each side of the central vertical. This is the companion piece to Lot 2 of the Bentley Collection which has a plain edge; we note that the milled edge piece offered here is of a significantly lower weight than the heavy weight plain edge piece.
Estimate: £15,000-20,000