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Lot 2010       Patterns & Proofs

Estimate $70,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $85,000

GEORGE VI, Royal Mint pattern penny 1937. Toned blue brown with some mint red, particularly in the reverse, good extremely fine and extremely rare, one of the most important commonwealth coins.

Ex Spink Australia Sale 15 (lot 680). Owing to the abdication of Edward VIII a regular coinage with this new design could not be introduced in Australia until 1938. The London Mint prepared a few patterns for approval, we know of only six in private hands, probably less than ten were struck.

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