Patterns & Proofs
Lot 1409 Session 5 (7.30pm Wednesday) Patterns & Proofs
Estimate $50,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $45,000
GEORGE V, Melbourne Mint proof or specimen set, 1916M, florin, shilling, sixpence and threepence. Has been dipped, the sixpence and threepence with brilliant fields, the florin and shilling frosted, the shilling also with characteristic 45ø die rotation, nearly FDC and very rare. (4)
The florin has minor hairline die breaks on the reverse, which is unusual for proof strikings but not for these first ever issues of specimen coins by the Mint. This set, acquired from Downies in 1995, is sold with their ticket.
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