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Auction: 22109 - The David Hoover Collection of Crowns: 1551-1953
Lot: 2073

(x) William III (1694-1702), Crown, 1696 OCTAVO, third laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, straight breast plate, rev. crowned shields cruciform, six strings to early harp, nine billets, lettered edge downwards, 6h (Pywell-Phillips -; Bull 1004; ESC 94; Spink 3472), the host coin good, the private engraving neatly applied in cursive script reading JOHN ALLEN 1780 NELLY YOUNG, with a heart and ship at sail carved into the bust, an appealing love token of a bygone age

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