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Auction: 3024 - The Slaney Collection of English Coins
Lot: 111

George III, Half-Guinea, 4.16g., 1802, by Lewis Pingo after Marchant, sixth laureate bust facing right, georgivs iii dei gratia., legend continuous over bust, 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, diagonally milled (MCE 440; S.3736), toned, very fine Estimate £80-120 provenance Purchased Baldwin 1944 for £3.3/-, on a reused ticket from a 1798 Half-Guinea purchase at £2.5/-

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