Details
LOT 4025
Great Britain. Hanover, George III AR Shilling. Dated 1817. London mint. 'Bull Head' type. Last coinage.
Designs by Benedetto Pistrucci and Thomas Wyon. GEOR : III D : G : BRITT : REX F : D :, laureate head to right; date below / Ornate crowned Royal shield overlaid with smaller crowned shield, all within Garter inscribed HONI(unbarred H) • SOIT • Q MAL • Y • PENSE. Bull 2146; ESC -; SCBC 3790. Very Fine.(5.55gr, 24mm, 12h.).
Provenance
Ex Spink and Son Ltd., 5 January 1980.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
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