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Auction: 5028 - The Samuel King Collection of Highly Important British Gold Coins
Lot: 194

gGeorge III, Pattern Five Pounds, 1820, lx, 39.88g., by Benedetto Pistrucci, large laureate head right, pistrucci weakly struck below, georgius iii d:g: britanniar: rex f:d: 1820, finely toothed border both sides, rev. struck en medaille, St.George and the dragon, pistrucci in exergue, w.w.p. above broken lance on groundline, edge plain with bevelled rims (W&R.178 R5; L&S 209; S.3783), lightly scuffed, graze across neck, small rim nick above head, scratch above horse´s head, otherwise extremely fine, exceedingly rare, only two specimens struck Estimate £ 30,000-40,000 J G Murdoch, Sotheby, 15 March 1904, lot 175Mortimer Hammell, Stacks, New York, 15 September 1982, lot 356H Selig, Part 2, Spink Coin Auction 131, 2nd March 1999, lot 1159

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