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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 458

(g) NGC PF61 UCAM | Mint Error | George IV (1820-1830), Pattern Five Pounds, 1826 SEPTIMO, 'Narrow 6' in date, struck in ternary 22ct "Red Gold" Alloy, GEORGIUS IV DEI GRATIA, bare head left, rev. BRITANNIARUM REX FID: DEF:, crowned shield in mantle, seven semée of hearts, DECUS ET TUTAMEN * ANNO REGNI SEPTIMO * in raised lettering downwards on edge, 39.970g [616.8grns], 6h (L&S 27; W&R 213; Hocking 1906; S.3797), struck with a defective planchet with resulting rim manufacturing flaws at 11 and 4 o'clock and an annealing flaw through NO of ANNO on edge, otherwise with light cabinet friction to brilliant original fields, handsomely and naturally toned, a bold extremely fine , a scarcely imaginable and excessively rare "Mint Error" for this seminal collector's Proof!, in NGC Black 'Pallas' holder, curiously graded PF61 ULTRA CAMEO (Cert. #8534310-002)

Provenance

The "Pallas" Collection of English Coins


Messrs Spink & Son, by private treaty, 26 September 1964 - £550.0.0


Brigadier Basil Charles Lake, D.S.O., Glendining, 19 May 1964, lot 46* - "brilliant, near mint, rare" - £520.0.0 [Spink]



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