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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 461

(g) NGC PF60 CAM | Victoria (1837-1901), Pattern Five-Pounds, 1839 TERTIO, "Una and the Lion", by William Wyon, VICTORIA D: G: BRITANNIARUM REGINA F: D: young diademed head left scroll-garnished fillet (6 / 3), one eleven-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', DECUS ET TUTAMEN * ANNO REGNI TERTIO * in raised lettering upwards between 'wire-rims' on edge, 39.282g [606.21grns], 12h (Montagu 1559; Murdoch 490-491; Nobleman 237-238; Douglas-Morris 229; L&S 17; W&R 278; EGC II, 1050 [R4]; Hill F23; GH 106; S.3851), minor contact marks on portrait and lightly wiped in antiquity, nevertheless a most attractively bold extremely fine, an undisputed icon of British Numismatics, in NGC Black 'Pallas' holder, sympathetically graded PF60 CAMEO (Cert. #8534310-006)

Provenance

The "Pallas" Collection of English Coins


Seaby, by private treaty (ref. 761454), 27 September 1976 - £5,000



https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/8534310-006/60/

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Sold for
£110,000

Starting price
£50000