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Auction: 25007 - … British and World Coins and Medals featuring The Oriole Collection of Gold and Silver English Coins
Lot: 383

PCGS PR64 | Victoria (1837-1901), Engraver's Model and Pattern for a Half-Sovereign, 1880, struck in silver, from the Sixpence Obverse and the Reverse Puncheon of an 1817 Sovereign, by Leonard Charles Wyon after Benedetto Pistrucci, VICTORIA DEI GRATIA BRITANNIAR: REG: F:D:, young head left, rev. St. George and Dragon, with broken lance, no initials, edge plain, 2.87g [44.3grns], 1h (W&R 354 = Hocking 2201 [Gold]; Montagu -; Murdoch -; Nobleman -, cf. 272b same reverse die; ), richly and colourfully cabinet toned, overlying brilliant original fields, much as struck, UNIQUE, in PCGS holder, graded PROOF 64 (Cert. #34915047)

Provenance

Heritage ANA Signature 3066, 17 August 2018, lot 30333


LCA 159, 3 December 2017, lot 812


Baldwins 13, 28 May 1997, lot 2040* - "brilliant and toned, of the highest rarity"



This issue is reminiscent of the equally incongruous 1841 Pattern Sixpence struck in Gold from the obverse die of a contemporary Half-Sovereign. Why a Sixpence die was utilised rather than an accessible Half-Sovereign matrix is not entirely clear.



https://www.pcgs.com/cert/34915047

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Estimate
£10,000 to £12,000

Starting price
£8000