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Auction: 5028 - The Samuel King Collection of Highly Important British Gold Coins
Lot: 195

gGeorge III, Pattern Two Pounds, 1820, lx, 15.93g., by Benedetto Pistrucci, laureate head right, date below, georgius iii d:g: britanniarum rex f: d:, finely toothed border both sides, rev. inverted die axis, St. George and dragon, w.w.p. under broken lance, small b.p. to upper right of exergue, edge upright inscription in raised letters decus et tutamen* anno regni lx*, rosette stops (W&R.179 R3; L&S 207 note; S.3784), hairlines both sides, small edge nick and edge scratch, tiny nick on truncation, otherwise good extremely fine and very rare, only sixty specimens struck Estimate £ 12,000-15,000

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