Lot 1212

Sale 63 · Important Australia Coins & Banknotes, World Coins & War Medals, Featuring Highlights of the Moran Collection

Edward VIII, 1937, set of four privately issued pattern/proof crowns in (.925) silver, copper, Barton's metal, and golden alloy. Obverse features crowned portrait of Edward by Donald R. Golder, based on the coinage effigy of Goerge V used on contemporary South African coinage. Reverse bears the crowned national shield. (4)