Great Britain Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 2019 Session 6 (9.30am Wednesday) Great Britain Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $150
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SOLD $190
IRELAND, Queen Victoria, unofficial retrospective pattern double florin or four shillings, dated 1901, crowned and veiled old head left, by Donald R. Golder, proofs in 925 silver, copper and aluminium bronze, (Krause "Unusual World Coins" X11, 11a, 11b, CV US$165); Edward VII, unofficial pattern double florin or four shillings, dated 1901, 'colonial' crowned and robed bust right, by Donald R. Golder, proofs in 925 silver, copper and aluminium bronze, (Krause "Unusual World Coins" X13, 13a, 13b, CV US$165) (total CV $330). FDC. (2 sets, 6 coins)
Mintage 360 only for each type of Queen Victoria and 425 for each type of Edward VII. These Ireland pattern double florins were inspired by those of Reginald Huth, who instructed John Pinches to produce a small number of patterns to commemorate Queen Victoria's visit to Ireland in 1900. Huth/Pinches produced a version of Brock's 'old head' portrait of the Queen for the medallic coin's obverse and adopted a cruciform shield design reminiscent of the 1887 double florin for the reverse. The reverse of this 1901 dated pattern combines a crowned Irish harp design, found on the Irish coinage of George III and George IV, with a very detailed quatrefoil design featured on the British pattern florins of 1848.
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