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Auction: 3024 - The Slaney Collection of English Coins
Lot: 235

Victoria, Pattern Crown, 28.22g., 1888, by Leonard Charles Wyon, large older coronetted bust left, l.c.w. on truncation, victoria d:g: britt:reg:f:d: ,legend ends behind shoulder of truncation, toothed border both sides, rev. struck en medaille, St George slaying dragon right, traces of wwp under lance, date in exergue, b.p.to upper right, edge, milled (ESC 357 R6; L&S 99), very attractively toned, mint state, extremely rare Estimate £8,000-10,000 provenance L C Wyon, Sotheby, 12 December 1901, lot 15 J G Murdoch, Sotheby, 8 March 1904, lot 567 Baron Phillipe de Ferrari la Renotiere, Sotheby, 27 March 1922, lot 306 V M Brand, died in 1926, portion of collection purchased by Seaby in USA in 1935 H M Lingford, Glendining, 24 October 1950 lot 579

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