Patterns & Proofs
Lot 1545 Session 5 (7.30pm Wednesday) Patterns & Proofs
Estimate $80,000
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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 Sales 15 & 64 (lot 680, 2010). 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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