Patterns & Proofs
Lot 1464 Session 5 (7.30pm Tuesday) Patterns & Proofs
Estimate $90,000
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SOLD $95,000
GEORGE VI, Royal Mint pattern penny 1937. Toned even brown with trace of mint red, nearly FDC and extremely rare, one of the most important of all Australian Commonwealth coins.
Ex Spink Australia Sale 22 (lot 1890). 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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