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Auction: 12009 - The Magnus Collection, Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 980

George I (1714-27), Halfcrown, 1726 decimo tertio, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, rev. four crowned shields cruciform, roses and plumes in angles (ESC 593; S.3644), about very fine / very fine, very rare Estimate £ 6,000-8,000 provenance Parsons, Glendining, 11-13 May 1954, lot 600 Parsons, Glendining, 31 October, 1929, lot 672, with comment "this coin was unknown to Hawkins and appears, though so late, to be one of the rarest in the milled series, a specimen, however appeared in the Hamilton Smith collection, lot 483 W.D. Ferguson, Sotheby 14-15 July, 1851, probably lot 90 (part)

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