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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 55

(g) George IV (1820-1830), Sovereign, 1821, Type 1, laureate head left, rev. St. George and Dragon, no helmet streamer, edge milled, 7.93g [122.4grns], 6h (MCE 471; Marsh 5; EGC 959; Bentley 13; Stratos 119-120; Spink 3800), minor rim nicks and lightly cleaned but residually lustrous, very fine, the first instance of Pistrucci's revised St. George brandishing a sword to appear on the Currency Sovereign and ergo the very model for the design still maintained to this day

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