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Auction: 3024 - The Slaney Collection of English Coins
Lot: 124

William IV (1830-37), Proof Two Pounds, 15.91g., 1831, by William Wyon after Chantrey, bare head facing right, w.w. incuse on truncation, gulielmus iiii d:g: britanniar: rex f:d:, toothed border and raised rim both sides, rev. inverted die axis, by J B Merlen, crowned escutcheon of Hanover within quartered shield upon crowned ermine mantle, seven strings to Irish harp, Garter below, anno to left, date to right, edge, plain (WR 258 R3; S.3828), clear fields, with just the slightest of surface marks, tiny rim nick each side, otherwise as struck, a superb example Estimate £3,000-4,000 provenance Purchased Baldwin 1945 for £50

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