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Auction: 22004 - The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck and Simon English Esq. Collections of English Hammered and Milled Coins
Lot: 145

(x) The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck Collection of Numismatic Portraits from Medieval Flanders and Tudor England | Victoria (1837-1901), Specimen 'Gothic' Crown, MDCCCXLVII [1847] UNDECIMO, by W Wyon, 'Gothic' bust left, rev. crowned shields cruciform, edge lettered downwards, 28.37g, 6h (Bull 2571; ESC 288; L&S 57; Spink 3883), a breathtaking example of Wyon's 'Magnum Opus', with wisps of cabinet contact in otherwise brilliant fields, an astonishing 'snake' of iridescent blue trailing across obverse fields culminating in flaming reddish-purple in Victoria's Gothic Crown, splendidly choice FDC

Provenance
Spink, November 1991

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£20,000

Starting price
£8000