Patterns & Proofs
Lot 1229 Session 5 (7.30pm Tuesday) Patterns & Proofs
Estimate $160,000
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QUEEN VICTORIA, pattern proof half sovereign, 1856, with second type or wreathed head by L.C.Wyon for the Royal Mint , London, edge plain (3.89 grams). Minor surface marks, especially on the obverse otherwise nearly FDC and extremely rare.
Ex Pretoria Mint South Africa Collection in 1996.
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