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Auction: 22109 - The David Hoover Collection of Crowns: 1551-1953
Lot: 2098

(x) NGC MS61 | George II (1727-1760), LIMA Crown, 1746 DECIMO NONO, older laureate, draped and cuirassed bust left, rev. crowned shields cruciform, roses in angles, ten strings to harp, seven hearts, lettered edge upwards, 6h (Pywell-Phillips 312; Bull 1668; ESC 125; Spink 3689), lightly cleaned but residually lustrous with the usual rusty die flaw before face, colourfully retoned, a bolder extremely fine, in NGC holder, graded MS61 (Cert. #2851146-001)

Provenance
K Bayford (Hertfordshire), by private treaty - £3,750
LCA 160, 17 March 2018, lot 2038 - good extremely fine, with colourful tone and a few light flecks of haymarking on the obverse - £2,200
Goldberg's 100, 5 September 2017, lot 2586 - practically mint state with a golden gray tone, otherwise as last - [unsold]
Goldberg's 98, 6 June 2017, lot 2942 -as last [unsold]
Goldberg's 96, 14 February 2017, lot 2965 - wherein offered in PCGS holder, graded AU Details ~ Cleaned - $2,500
DNW 137, 21 September 2016, lot 1228 - extremely fine or better, dark tone, wherein in PCGS holder, graded AU58 - £1,700
SNC, March 1994, no. 1104 - faintly haymarked, richly toned EF - £475



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Sold for
£2,400

Starting price
£1800