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LOT 4078
Great Britain. Windsor, Elizabeth II Proof AV Two Pounds. Dated 2018. Royal Mint. Commemorating 250 years since the first round-the-world voyage of Captain Cook. Designs by Jody Clark andGary Breeze.
ELIZABETH II · D · G · REG · F · D · 2 POUNDS ·, crowned bust of Elizabeth II to right / Cook's ship Endeavour set off-centre to left and superimposed on a map of Plymouth Sound with diagonal lines running through, 250 to right, Captain Cook's signature below; in outer ring the anniversary dates 1768 - 2018 above and CAPTAIN JAMES COOK below. Edge lettering: OCEANI INVESTIGATOR ACERRIMVS. S K48. PCGS PR70 DCAM, certification number: 35538627. PCGS population in this grade: 4, equal-finest graded.3 1/4 - 4 1/4 in. (365 grams total, 8.2-10.7 cm including case.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK coin market.
From the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman.
Diameter: 28.4 mm. Thickness: 2.5 mm. Weight: 15.9761 g. (AGW=0.4711 oz.) Composition: 917/1000 Gold.
Setting sail in August 1768 on HM Bark Endeavour, Cook would circumnavigate the world twice and fill in many gaps in the world map, including setting foot on Australia.
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LOT 4078
Great Britain. Windsor, Elizabeth II Proof AV Two Pounds.
Estimate £800 - 1,000€930 - 1,160 (for guidance only)$1,080 - 1,350 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£400 (EUR 464; USD 540) +BP*
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Great Britain. Windsor, Elizabeth II Proof AV Two Pounds. Dated 2018. Royal Mint. Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the First World War. Designs by Jody Clark and Stephen Raw.
Estimate: £1,000 - 1,400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £400
ELIZABETH II · DEI · GRA · REG · FID · DEF · 2018 ·; fifth crowned bust of Elizabeth II to right / THE FIRST WORLD WAR · ARMISTICE · 1918 above; fve-line inscription in handwritten typeface The truth untold, the pity of war, set on a rugged surface reminiscent of mud, TWO POUNDS below. Edge lettering: WILFRED OWEN KILLED IN ACTION 4 NOV 1918. S K49. 42.93 grams total, 82 mm including case.
PCGS PR70 DCAM, certification number 38055958. PCGS population in this grade: 6, equal-finest graded.
Acquired on the UK coin market. From the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman.
Diameter: 28.4 mm. Thickness: 2.5 mm. Weight: 15.9761 g. (AGW=0.4711 oz.) Composition: 917.0/1000 Gold. As part of a five-year series from outbreak to armistice, this fifth and final coin celebrates the Armistice in 1918. -
Great Britain. Hanover, Victoria AV Half Sovereign. Dated 1848/7. London mint. 8 over 7.
Estimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £125
VICTORIA DEI GRATIA, young head of Victoria to left, hair tied in fillet; date below truncation, with 8 struck over 7 / BRITANNIARUM REGINA FID: DEF:, crowned embellished shield-of-arms. Fr 389b; KM 735.1; Marsh 422A; SCBC 3859. 31.75 grams total, 82 mm including case.
PCGS XF45, certification number 37318659. PCGS population in this grade: 2. PCGS population in higher grade: 4.
Acquired on the UK coin market. From the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman.
Diameter: 19 mm. Weight: 3.99 g. (AGW=0.1176 oz.) Composition: 917/1000 Gold. -
Great Britain. Windsor, Elizabeth II Proof AV Quintuple Sovereign. Dated 2002. Royal Mint. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II. Designs by Ian Rank-Broadley and Timothy Noad.
Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,000
ELIZABETH · II · DEI · GRA REGINA · FID · DEF.; fourth crowned head of Elizabeth II to right; IRB below / Crowned Royal Shield of Arms of the United Kingdom, laurel wreaths around, date below. S SE9 (was 4401); KM 1028. 76.78 grams total, 86 mm including case.
NGC PF 70 ULTRA CAMEO, certification number 2155668-011. NGC Census in this grade: 117, equal-finest graded. Total NGC Census: 171.
Acquired on the UK coin market. From the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman.
Mintage: 3,000. Diameter: 36.02 mm. Weight: 39.94 g. (AGW=1.1777 oz.) Composition: 917.0/1000 Gold. This was the first time since 1893 the shield of arms was used on the reverse of a coin.
