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Auction: 382 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NY INC
Lot: 186

NGC XF Details | George III (1760-1820), Pattern for a Sixpence, 1788, by Jean-Pierre Droz, in gold, crowned GR cypher in wreath, rev. Britannia seated left, 1788 in exergue, edge straight grained, 3.55g, 12h (Crowther -; Renotiere -; Montagu -; Murdoch III, 242[a]; Selig - [cf. 1230 same dies]; Mitchell-David 518; Bole 1740 this coin; W&R 151 [recte, grained edge]; Bull 2217 [R5]; ESC 1643 [R6]; Spink -), slightly creased, otherwise residually brilliant and accentuated with flares of reddish-blue, almost very fine, excessively rare in this metal and unknown to Crowther, Montagu, Renotiere and Selig, and one of three available to discerning type collectors, in NGC holder, graded XF Details ~ Bent (Cert. #6295540-001)

Provenance
Baldwin FPL, Winter 2011-2012 (3 February 2012), BM127 - red tone, a little undulation, with some creasing to flan and other light marks, a bold very fine and extremely rare - £6,500
Alfred Bole, Part I, DNW 89, 29 September 2010, lot 1740 - creased, otherwise about very fine with red tone, extremely rare




The three examples to appear at global auction this millenium are: the Alfred Bole (2010, lot 1740) and this coin; the Mitchell-David (2010, lot 518, graded NGC MS63); and the WR 151 plate coin (Baldwin 52, 25 September 2007, lot 543, and Tallent and Belzberg (Stack's, 24 April 2008, lot 1249).

Sold for
$7,500

Starting price
$7500