Auction Catalogue

28 September 2005

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Important British and World Coins

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 416

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28 September 2005

Hammer Price:
£620

Elizabeth II (1952-, Pattern Decimal 5 Cents, 1961, obv. by M. Gillick, rev. after W. Wyon, in cupro-nickel, laureate bust right [from a Sixpence die], rev. lion on crown, value at sides, date below, edge grained, 19mm, 2.83g/12h (Davies p.118). Traces of handling and a spot by forepaw of lion, otherwise extremely fine and extremely rare (£350-450)

Provenance:
Mrs R. Henry Norweb Collection, Part II, Spink Auction 48, 13 November 1985, lot 749 [from Spink November 1963].

The decimal pattern coins dated 1961 utilised comparable sterling obverse equivalents, while some of the reverses employed old punches drawn from the Mint collection. These punches included George De Saulles’ standing Britannia, William Wyon’s Una and the lion and the same artist’s lion on crown motif, originally engraved for the final issue of shillings and sixpences of George IV (see lot 1068)