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Auction: 3024 - The Slaney Collection of English Coins
Lot: 229

William IV (1830-37), Proof Crown, 27.66g., 1831, bare head facing right, w.w. incuse on truncation, gulielmus iiii d:g: britanniar: rex f:d: toothed border both sides, rev. inverted die axis, crowned shield of Hanover within quartered shield of arms within Order of the Garter, all upon crowned ermine mantle, seven strings to Irish harp, anno 1831 below, edge, plain (ESC 271 R2; L&S 1; Davies 300; S.3833), light hairline across neck, other light hailrines in fields, otherwise brilliant as struck, rare Estimate £5,000-6,000 provenance Purchased Baldwin 1945 for £35

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