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Auction: 3024 - The Slaney Collection of English Coins
Lot: 106

George III, Guinea, 8.37g., 1813, by Lewis Pingo after Marchant, "military" type sixth laureate bust facing right, with long ties, georgivs iii dei gratia, toothed border both sides, rev. struck en medaille, crowned escutcheon of Hanover within quartered shield of arms within crowned garter, honi soit qui mal y pense motto, four strings to Irish harp, date in field below, britanniarum rex fidei defensor, edge, obliquely milled (MCE 404; S.3730), a little weak of strike otherwise lightly toned, extremely fine Estimate £800-1,000 provenance Purchased Baldwin 1943 for £6.10/-

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