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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 627

(g) NGC PF62 UCAM | Victoria (1837-1901), Pattern Proof Five-Pounds, 1839 TERTIO, 'Una and the Lion', by William Wyon R.A., VICTORIA D: G: BRITANNIARUM REGINA F: D: young diademed head left scroll-garnished fillet (5 / 2), one nine-leaved floral-garnished fillet, W. WYON R.A. on truncation, rev. en médaille, DIRIGE DEUS GRESSUS MEOS. Queen Victoria leading the British Lion, wearing Mantle and Badge of the Most Noble Order of the Garter; an allegory of Edmund Spenser's 'Faerie Quene' 'Una and the Lion', DECUS ET TUTAMEN * ANNO REGNI TERTIO * in raised lettering upwards on edge, 36.14g [557.725grns], 12h (Whetmore 109 same dies; Douglas-Morris 230; L&S 18; W&R 279; GH - [cf. 110]; Spink 3851), the faintest cabinet friction in fields and wisps to nape of neck, otherwise a stunning example, sumptuously accentuated by honey-golden tone overlying brilliant fields, the central devices and portrait sharpened by deep cameo and frosted definition, a beautifully honest, original gem, unseen in commerce since the Second World War, in NGC holder, graded PF62 ULTRA CAMEO (Cert. #6769440-001)

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