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Auction: 23006 - The Official COINEX Auction at Spink
Lot: 234

George I (1714-1727), Guinea, 1716, fourth laureate head right, rev. crowned shields cruciform, eight strings to harp, seven hearts to Hanoverian shield, edge obliquely milled, 8.242g, 5h (Ellerby 217-225; MCE 248; Farey 605; EGC -; Spink 3631), light surface 'pock' marks on chin and Scottish Lion, otherwise lightly toned and residually lustrous, a bolder fine, one of the more frequently encountered dates and bust variety combinations in series, as testified by the Ellerby Area Hoard sale in these rooms in October 2022

Provenance

The 'Eleutherios' Collection of English Coins

Thomas H Law, Stack's Bowers, ANA Sale 176, 13-20 August 2013, lot 20256 - wherein holdered NGC 'Thos H Law' F12 [Cert. #3636826-009], and the following note: "A Guinea that has seen good use, perhaps thrown across the gaming tables of London a few times in its past."

R Lobel, by private treaty, 1979

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