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Auction: 19025 - Ancient, Indian and Islamic, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1301

(x) George, Prince of Wales and Seneschal of Scotland, Pattern Gold Sixpence, 1799, 6.89g, by Milton for Colonel Fullarton, possibly a later striking by W J Taylor, georgivs . p.s.s.c.d {georgius princeps senescaltus scotiae cornubia dux}, cuirassed and draped bust left, rev. br. l. pr. e reg. sc. pr et. sen cor. dux, crowned cruciform shields, Garter Star at centre, Prince of Wales plumes in angles (DH 5 Bis II; ST 298; Stainton 31c), brilliant and heavily frosted, good extremely fine, extremely rare

provenance
H Selig, part II, Spink 131, 2 March 1999, lot 1443
Glendining, 12 May 1976, lot 67
F Cockayne, Glendining, 17 July 1946, lot 388
S H Hamer, Glendining, 26 November 1930, lot 705
W N Clarkson, Sotheby, 16 April 1901, lot 505 - £4.4.0 (to Verity)

A further provenance was given in the Hamer catalogue attributing this piece to the collection of Edmund Shorthouse (1838-1916). However, as far as can be ascertained, the coin was not present in any of his four lifetime dispersals prior to the Clarkson sale, nor in the sale of his effects in 1916. The dealer James Verity, who acquired the "Pattern Half-Sovereign" as it was listed in 1901, obviously connected this piece and the Shorthouse commissioned Pattern Penny restrikes after Joseph Moore of c.1886. In the absence of corroborating evidence however, this earlier provenance is considered highly speculative, and more likely the result of a simple transcription error in the Hamer catalogue where other known Shorthouse restrikes were offered. Similarly no parallel is to be found in the sale of William Joseph Taylor's effects (Sotheby, July 1886, lots 164-267).

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