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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 520

George I (1714-1727), 'Welsh Copper Company', Shilling, 1724 WCC, GEORGIVS • D ' G • M • BR • FR • ET • HIB • REX • F • D • second laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, W.C.C. below truncation, rev. 24 • BRVN ET • L • DVX S • R • I • A : TH • ET • EL • 17, four crowned shields cruciform, six strings to harp, six hearts to semée, interlocking Cs and plumes in angles, 5.92g, 5h (Pywell-Phillips -; ESC 1182 [R2]; Bull 1595 [R2]; S.3650), rainbow cabinet toned and lustrous, a really pleasingly good very fine / extremely fine, a fabled Shilling rarity, especially so in this stupendous condition

Provenance

The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection (1870-1941)

William S Lincoln & Son, by private treaty, 26 January 1899 - £1.18.0

William Allen, Sotheby's, 14-17 March 1898, lot 226 [part] - "...Shillings [9], 1724, W.C.C. and plumes...some in mint state" - £2.14.0 [Lincoln]


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