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Auction: 12008 - Fine Coins of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 605

Hong Kong, Victoria, Silver Proof Pattern Dollar, 26.78g, 1864, bust left, wearing open arched crown and decorated bodice, rev. one dollar hong kong 1864, four shields cruciform around a star, sprigs of oak and laurel in angles, the shields with the Chinese characters ´hsiang chang i yuan, in wide decorated border, edge grained, coin alignment (KM-Pn.105; Pridmore 232), some hairlines, deeply toned, extremely fine, extremely rare Estimate HK$ 1,500,000-1,800,000 provenance Irving Goodman Collection, 28-29 May 1995, lot 729 (illustrated on the front cover of the catalogue and on colour plate 1)

Sold for
HK$1,100,000