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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 719

Victoria, Pattern Halfcrown, 1884, struck in silver on a 32mm flan, Jubilee style bust with necklace of eleven pearls, larger earring and small crown facing left within wire circle, smaller spread letters in legend, victoria / dei gratia, toothed border obverse, rev. struck en medaille, toothed border, smaller quartered shield within crowned Garter, honi . soit . qui . mal . y. pense ., normal stops, six strings to Irish harp, surrounded by Order of the Garter, date below, number 5 scratched in field next to date, britanniarum regina fid: def:, edge, milled (Davies 636; cf.ESC 742), toned, mint state, of the highest rarity Estimate £ 4,000-5,000PROVENANCEH M Lingford, collection purchased en bloc by Baldwin, 1951

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