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Auction: 1012 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1124

g Victoria, Five-Pounds 1839, head left, six scrolls visible on front fillet and thirteen leaves visible on rear fillet, victoria d:g: britanniarum regina f:d: in narrow neat lettering, rev. dirige deus gressus meos, Una and the Lion, lettered edge slightly off centre (LS -. type X edge; S.3851), light hairlines both sides and a small mark in front of Una´s face, small area of metal turned up on the edge between 4 and 5 o´clock on the obverse rim, a most attractive coin with deep reflective fields, brilliant about uncirculated, a very rare individual proof striking, markedly different from the coin found in the sets, in contemporary case Estimate £ 20,000-25,000

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£34,000