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LOT 4018
Great Britain. Hanover, Victoria AR Crown. Dated 1889. London mint. Jubilee coinage.
Designs by Joseph Edgar Boehm and Benedetto Pistrucci. VICTORIA D : G : BRITT : REG : F : D :, crowned, veiled and draped bust to left; J.E.B. in small lettering on truncation / St. George on horseback to right, holding sword with right hand and wearing plumed helmet and billowing cloak, slaying the dragon which falls to right; small B. P. beneath ground line to right, date in exergue. Bull 2589; ESC 299; SCBC 3921. Good Fine.(27.88gr, 38mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey, one of the global authorities on the confederate army in the US civil war; thence by descent to his grandson.
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