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Auction: 392 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NY INC
Lot: 35A

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

NGC have previously assessed this as 'Altered Surfaces', a determination highly disputed by the present cataloguer

Sold for
$4,000

Starting price
$4000