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Auction: 5028 - The Samuel King Collection of Highly Important British Gold Coins
Lot: 200

gGeorge IV, Proof Two Pounds, 1826, bare head left, date below, rosette either side, georgius iv dei gratia, toothed border both sides, rev. inverted die axis, crowned escutcheon of the Arms of Hanover upon quartered arms on crowned ermine mantle, eleven strings to Irish harp, britanniarum rex fid: def:, edge inverted inscription in raised letters decus et tutamen* anno regni septimo*, cinquefoil stops, (Schneider -; W&R.228 R2; S.3799), edge nicks, otherwise with full mint brilliance, practically as struck Estimate £ 3,000-3,500

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