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Auction: 21006 - British Hammered and Milled Coins: Summer Auction
Lot: 271

VF30 | Ex Lingford & Willis | William III (1694-1702), Crown, 1696 OCTAVO, first laureate and draped bust right, reads GEI GRATIA in error, rev. crowned shields cruciform, seven strings to early harp, 29.57g, 12h (Bull 1000; ESC 91 [R5]; Lingford 415 = Willis 152 this coin; Spink 3470), an exemplary specimen of this bizarre and unusual error, almost very fine and very rare, with an excellent pedigree, in early NGC 'Tokyo' holder, graded VF30 (Cert. #2011260-101)

Provenance
BSJ NYINC Sale 41, 19 January 2020, lot 153
'A Tokyo Collection', by private treaty with Heritage, Spring 2011
Willis, Part II, Glendining, 7 October 1991, lot 152 - 'good fine, toned, a pleasing example of this error, practically never found in better state' - £290 [Ishii]
H M Lingford, Glendining, 24-26 October 1950, lot 415 - 'unusually fine for this rare coin' [Willis]
Baldwin, January 1938

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Sold for
£1,600

Starting price
£1000