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                    Lot: 84
                
                    
                        British Administration, Hong Kong, Victoria (1837-1901), Specimen Proof Dollar, 1866, by Leonard Charles Wyon, Hong Kong Mint on Sugar Street in Causeway Bay, VICTORIA - QUEEN, crowned young head left, rev. ONE DOLLAR HONG KONG 1866, edge milled, 26.67g (KM 10; Pridmore 1A; Mars C41; Dav. 245; "Hong Kong Coins", pp. 55, no. 94), lightly wiped with residues in recesses, otherwise residually brilliant with peripheral flares of bluish-purple, a handsomely bold very fine, extremely rare and highly prized as the first year of the extremely short-lived three year issue
                        
                                            
                
                    
                        Sold for                    
                        
                        
                        $15,000                    
                    
                        
                            Starting price                        
                            
                            
                            $4000