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Auction: 18025 - The Pywell-Phillips Collection of English Milled Silver and Copper Coins
Lot: 268

George I (1714-27), Shilling, 1716, rev. nine strings to harp (ESC 1562 [R3] {1163}; S.3645), toned, very fine, very rare thus

provenance
H Samuel, Spink 109, 4 July 1995, lot 404 - £190

Note: Although Bull records '8 strings' in his revised ESC corpus, the cataloguer determines this to be a simple clerical error, for comparison study against the half-dozen examples to have appeared at auction in the last two decades indicates nine strings to be the most typically found variety for date

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Sold for
£450