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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 462

(g) NGC PF63 UCAM | 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, 38.631g [596.17grns], 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), a coin that requires neither introduction nor superlative, with the deftest cabinet friction and peach fuzz in otherwise brilliantly choice fields, practically FDC, with sublime cameo definition, the finest we have handled for many years, in NGC Black 'Pallas' holder, exceptionally harshly graded PROOF 63 ULTRA CAMEO (Cert. #8534310-005)

Provenance

The "Pallas" Collection of English Coins


Messrs Spink & Son, by private treaty, 8 September 1965 - £1,150.0.0



https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/8534310-005/63/

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Sold for
£190,000

Starting price
£180000