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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 488

(g) NGC PF61 UCAM | Victoria (1837-1901), Pattern Five-Pounds, 1839 TERTIO, "Una and the Lion", by William Wyon R.A., VICTORIA D: G: BRITANNIARUM REGINA F: D: young diademed head left scroll-garnished fillet (5 / 2), one nine-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, 39.295g [606.415grns], 12h (Whetmore 109 same dies; Douglas-Morris 230 same dies; L&S 18; W&R 279; EGC II, 1052 [R2]; Hill F26; GH - [cf. 110]; S.3851), small bagmarks in lightly hairlined but otherwise playfully brilliant fields further accentuating delightful cameoing to key devices, an attractively bold extremely fine, a celebrated and 'pinnacle' rarity within the long and illustrious history of British numismatics, in NGC Black 'Pallas' holder, graded PROOF 61 ULTRA CAMEO (Cert. #8534320-001)

Provenance

The "Pallas" Collection of English Coins


Spink, by private treaty, 26 September 1964 - £1,250.0.0 [part]


https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/8534320-001/61/

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Sold for
£150,000

Starting price
£80000