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Auction: 19040 - The Waterbird Collection of Choice Numismatic Rarities
Lot: 26

George IV (1820-30), pattern Halfcrown, 1822, by B. Pistrucci and W. Wyon, laureate head left, rev. similar to second currency reverse, crowned shield in Garter, straight line below St George, similar to the regular issue but the whole design is smaller, edge grained, 14.05g (ESC 2381 (650) R7), a few faint marks but uncirculated and of medallic like quality, a great rarity, believed to be one of only three examples, in NGC 'Waterbird' holder, graded PF64 (Cert. #4861773-002)

provenance
'Jacobs', Glendining, 4 October 1962, lot 168 - £85.0.0 (Spink)
SNC, April 1929, no. 86589 - "unique - F.D.C - £15.10.0"
Hamilton-Smith III, Glendining, 23-25 May 1927, lot 525 - 'brilliant and unique' - £12.10.0 (Spink)
Purchased Spink, £13.4.0
'Nobleman' (Philipp von Ferrary de La Renotière), Sotheby, 27-31 March 1922, lot 169 - 'unique with this edge, two others known with plain edges' - £12.0.0 (Spink)

Corpus:

i) National Museum of Scotland, edge milled - (Accession: 1911.506.732); Major Lindsay-Carnegie bequest, 1911; Murdoch (Part III, Sotheby, 15-19 March 1904, lot 407 - £20.10.0 - Lincoln); Egmont-Bieber (Sotheby, 13-18 May 1889, lot 536 - £40.0.0)

ii) This coin, edge milled

iii) Montagu, edge plain, (Spink and Son, October 1890, no. 960) (£52.10.0); Brice, collection purchased by Montagu, (1887); John Marshall (Sotheby, 13.8.1875, lot 169) - £9.0.0 (Webster)

A potential earlier provenance for one of the above is to be found in the William Forster dispersal (28 May 1868, lot 269), wherein a Crown and Halfcrown of 1822 were offered together. The surrounding lots testify to the strength and depth of Forster's collection of Hanoverian proof and pattern coins, so it is somewhat of a mystery that such a coin, if indeed the listing is to be believed, was not noted at the time

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