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Auction: 25007 - … British and World Coins and Medals featuring The Oriole Collection of Gold and Silver English Coins
Lot: 334

George I (1714-1727), Guinea, 1716, fourth laureate bust right, rev. crowned shields cruciform, eight strings to harp, seven hearts to Hanoverian shield, edge obliquely milled, 8.12g, 5h (Ellerby 217-225; MCE 248; Farey 605; EGC - [omitted in error]; S.3631), smoothed and bright, with scratches to obverse, fair to fine

Provenance

London Mint Office, by private treaty, 7 January 2009


Unfortunately, the latest publication of EGC conflates the third (EGC 505) and fourth busts of the 1716 Guinea by presenting the third bust as muled with the Arms of Hanover at date error, thus far only met with on the fourth bust (EGC 506). The cataloguer proposes EGC 505A to dissipate confusion between these two important bust varieties.

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Estimate
£700 to £800

Starting price
£480