Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 31

Pre-Long Beach Coin Auction

George III (1760-1820)

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 2443		Great Britain. Dollar, ND. S.3765; ESC-129; KM-634. George III. Oval countermark with head of George III on a 1795 Mexico City 8 Reales. Attractively toned. NGC graded AU-53. Estimated Value $800 - 900. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,150
Lot 2444		Great Britain. Dollar, ND. S.3765; ESC-131; KM-626. George III. Oval countermark with head of George III on a 1795 Bolivia (Potosi) 8 Reales. Attractively toned. Very Rare. NGC graded AU-55. Estimated Value $1,400 - 1,700. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,438
Lot 2445		Great Britain. Half Dollar, 1795. S.3767; ESC-611. George III. Oval counterstamp on a Madrid 1794 4 Reales. Much rarer in grade than the dollar, this example with pleasant and bright blue and gray tone and original luster. Among the finest known of this emergency issue. The counterstamp is very sharp indeed. See our comments under other silver of this period for insights on the emergency nature of these coins. NGC graded MS-62. Estimated Value $1,500 - 1,800. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,440
Lot 2446		Great Britain. Proof silver Bank Dollar, 1804. George III. Bank of England issue. S-3768. Leaf to center, stop after "REX." "K" inverted and incuse. A flashy and mostly brilliant coin, pale gold toning here and there, quite a few hairlines but still close to the Choice technical designation. Undertype almost invisible, due to the Proof strike. NGC graded Proof 62. Estimated Value $1,200 - 1,350. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,495
Lot 2447		Great Britain. Silver Bank Dollar, 1804. George III. Bank of England issue. S-3768. Leaf to left, upright "K." A very lovely Choice Brilliant Uncirculated coin, sharply struck, bold denticles, several tiny die-breaks, several small toning spots, undertype almost invisible. Bank dollars seldom come this nice, and are very rare in higher grades. NGC graded MS-63. Estimated Value $1,100 - 1,300. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2448		Great Britain. Silver Bank Dollar, 1804. George III. Bank of England issue. S-3768. Emergency issue, struck over a Spanish 8 Reales. See our comments under the Three Shillings coins (1811-16) elsewhere in this sale, for background information about the period of time in which this coin was struck. Leaf to left, upright "K." Slightly scuffy fields, silvery gold with iridescent hues, large die-break from rim to king's forehead, undertype elements clear. NGC graded MS-62. Estimated Value $1,100 - 1,300. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2449		Great Britain. Copper Die-Trial Bank Dollar, 1804. George III. Bank of England issue. ESC-152. S-3768 for type. Leaf to center, stop after "REX" and upright "K." Engraver's "centering" or guide lines scribed on obverse die, incuse dot at center of portrait, "24 h" (the coin's weight) scratched in obverse right field in script style of the era. Very clean for what it is, lovely medium brown color. A fascinating and rare glimpse at the creative process of laying out the design! Unique? NGC graded AU-58 Brown. Estimated Value $1,500 - 1,700. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,783
Lot 2450		Great Britain. Bank Dollar, 1804. S.3768; Dav-101. George III. Laureate head right. Reverse: Britannia seated left. Lustrous. NGC graded AU-55. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $460
Lot 2451		Great Britain. 1811 Pattern Bank of England Five Shillings & Sixpence. George III. By C. H. Kuchler. ESC-194A, type of C/4. Thick flan, 36.79 grams. Standard obverse type with designer's initials at the truncation as "C.H.K"; rev: Seated Britannia with shield & spear. Sharply struck with frosted devices on almost flawless fields. This lovely specimen is beautifully toned in old time multicolor iridescence that only careful handling, correct storage conditions and a time span of almost two centuries can produce. The eye appeal is exceptional. Rated in ESC as R7, "only one or two examples known." In fact there are two and this is the finest by far. The other known example weighs 36.67 grams and was offered in a 1989 Spink Tokyo auction estimated at 32,000,000 Yen (US$30,000). Semi-Unique and of the greatest importance to the British series. PCGS graded Proof 67 Cameo. Estimated Value $15,000 - 20,000. Boulton Family. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $32,200
Lot 2452		Great Britain. Three Shillings silver Bank Token, 1812. George III. S-3769. Draped bust in armor. Anyone interested in the history of these pieces should see the wonderful study by E.M. Kelly entitled Spanish Dollars and Silver Tokens, published by Spink, London, 1976. This choice coin has attractive silvery gray toning. NGC graded MS-63. Estimated Value $250 - 300. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $374
Lot 2453		Great Britain. Three Shillings Bank Token, 1811. S.3769; ESC-408; KM-Tn4. George III. Draped and laureate bust in armour right. Toned. NGC graded MS-62. Estimated Value $250 - 300. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $374
Lot 2454		Great Britain. Three Shillings silver Bank Token, 1811. George III. S-3769. Draped bust in armor. For years at the end of this reign, and in fact during what is known to history as The Regency period, when King George was suffering his dementia and his son stepped in to fill many of his royal duties, England was at war with Napoleon. Specie was in very short supply. Gold was virtually nonexistent in the homeland, being hoarded. A special "Military Guinea" and its half were authorized strictly to pay troops abroad, fighting forces. At home, silver had vanished because of fears of a bad outcome to the war. No coins in silver were struck for the Crown. Earlier, the Bank of England had gathered Spanish silver 8 Reales coins and had overstamped them as emergency issues, known today as the Bank Dollars. By 1811 things were a little less uncertain, and the Bank of England once again issued coins in the king's name. Several denominations appeared, all of them different from traditional denominations so as not to cause confusion. The largest were these "3 Shillings" coins. Two types were made, two head styles, and today they are elusive in high grade but otherwise common. The Cheshire collector notes: "I collected several Bank Tokens of the same date because, even until recently, they seemed relatively cheap. And it was possible to put together a group of these pieces with different colour tones at no great expense!" Here is the first, showing light silvery gray toning. A distinctive feature of these is the shallow engraving. NGC graded MS-61. Estimated Value $200 - 250. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $242
Lot 2455		Great Britain. Three Shillings Bank Token, 1812. S.3770; ESC-416; KM-Tn5. George III. Laureate head. Toned. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $350 - 400. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $403
Lot 2456		Great Britain. Three Shillings Bank Token, 1812. S.3770; ESC-408; KM-Tn5. George III. Deeply toned. NGC graded MS-63. Estimated Value $250 - 300. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $288
Lot 2457		Great Britain. Three Shillings Bank Token, 1812. S.3770; ESC-408; KM-Tn5. George III. Fully lustrous with light golden toning. NGC graded MS-62. Estimated Value $250 - 300. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $345
Lot 2458		Great Britain. Three Shillings Bank Token, 1814. S.3770; ESC-422; KM-Tn5. George III. Deeply toned. NGC graded MS-63. Estimated Value $250 - 300. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $368
Lot 2459		Great Britain. Three Shillings silver Bank Token, 1814. George III. S-3770. Laureate head. Uncirculated, light silvery gold toning, strong luster. NGC graded MS-61. Estimated Value $200 - 250. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $276
Lot 2460		Great Britain. Three Shillings silver Bank Token, 1815. George III. S-3770. Laureate head. Uncirculated, a flashy example with attractive dappled gold toning over strong luster. NGC graded MS-62. Estimated Value $200 - 250. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $311
Lot 2461		Great Britain. Three Shillings Bank Token, 1816. S.3770; ESC-424; KM-Tn5. George III. Fully lustrous with lovely golden toning. Simply a superb example of this very rare date which is the key to the series. Absolutely irreplaceable and certainly among the finest known. See our initial comments on why the Cheshire Collector found this short series so alluring, under the first lot of this denomination. NGC graded MS-65. Estimated Value $4,000 - 5,000. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $4,140
Lot 2462		Great Britain. Eighteen Pence, 1811. S.3771; ESC-969; KM-Tn2. George III. Bank of England token. Lightly toned. NGC graded MS-62. Estimated Value $125 - 150. The Cheshire Collection. View details	Realized $173
Lot 2463		Great Britain. Eighteen Pence, 1813. S.3772; ESC-976; KM-Tn3. George III. Bank of England token. Lovely toning. NGC graded MS-65. Estimated Value $225 - 250. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $259
Lot 2464		Great Britain. Eighteen Pence, 1814. S.3772; ESC-977; KM-Tn3. George III. Bank of England token. Lovely toning. NGC graded MS-65. Estimated Value $225 - 250. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $322
Lot 2465		Great Britain. Eighteen Pence, 1816. S.3772; ESC-979; KM-Tn3. George III. Bank of England token. Deeply toned. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $150 - 200. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $253
Lot 2466		Great Britain. Halfpenny, 1770. S.3774. George III. Laureate bust right. NGC graded MS-64 Red & Brown. Estimated Value $375 - 425. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $345
Lot 2467		Great Britain. Halfpenny, 1771. S.3774. George III. Laureate bust right. Date touches exergue line. Lustrous with some red. NGC graded MS-64 Brown. Estimated Value $325 - 375. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $311
Lot 2468		Great Britain. Halfpenny, 1771. S.3774. George III. Laureate bust right. Date does not touch exergue line. Lustrous with traces of red. NGC graded MS-64 Brown. Estimated Value $400 - 450. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $456
Lot 2469		Great Britain. Halfpenny, 1771. S.3774; KM-601. George III. Couple of minor toning spots. Considerable luster. ANACS graded MS-64. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $299
Lot 2470		Great Britain. Halfpenny, 1772. S.3774. George III. Laureate bust right. Lustrous with some mint red. NGC graded MS-65 Brown. Estimated Value $450 - 550. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $414
Lot 2471		Great Britain. Halfpenny, 1773. S.3774. George III. Laureate bust right. A very pleasing lustrous example. NGC graded MS-65 Red & Brown. Estimated Value $500 - 600. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2472		Great Britain. Halfpenny, 1774. S.3774. George III. Laureate bust right. Glossy brown. NGC graded MS-64 Brown. Estimated Value $500 - 600. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2473		Great Britain. Copper Halfpenny, 1775. George III, First issue, Tower Mint. S-3774. Variety with the supposed upside-down "A" for "V" in the king's name, but close inspection shows this to be die-flaws which look like the crossbar of an "A." The final "S" is however distinctly double-cut. Coin-die alignment. The so-called Laureate and Cuirassed Bust, in which the king is made to look a bit like the Roman emperor Nero. A gorgeous specimen showing loads of mint red luster on the reverse, a bit more subdued by brown toning on the obverse. Some pebbly die-rust pimples on the portrait. NGC graded MS-65 Red & Brown. Estimated Value $500 - 600. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $575
Lot 2474		Great Britain. Halfpenny, 1775/5. S.3774. George III. Laureate bust right. 5 over 5 in date. Some luster. NGC graded MS-63 Brown. Estimated Value $300 - 350. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $311
Lot 2475		Great Britain. Farthing, 1771 first 7 over 1. George III, first issue of the Tower Mint. S-3775. Unpriced in Spink above VF! This could be the finest known, as it gleams with mahogany-brown luster and is sharply struck with crisp details and none of the die-crumbling so often seen on coppers of this era. Hints of red luster remain. Our estimate could be on the low side as Spink values it at £175 ($350) just in VF grade. Very rare!. NGC graded MS-65 Red & Brown. Estimated Value $750 - 900. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $750
Lot 2476		Great Britain. Farthing, 1771. S.3775. George III. Laureate head. Lustrous. NGC graded MS-64 Brown. Estimated Value $550 - 650. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2477		Great Britain. Farthing, 1773. S.3775. George III. Laureate head. Much luster. NGC graded MS-65 Brown. Estimated Value $450 - 550. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $403
Lot 2478		Great Britain. Farthing, 1773. S.3775. George III. Laureate head. NGC graded AU-58 Brown. Estimated Value $200 - 250. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $230
Lot 2479		Great Britain. Farthing, 1774. S.3775. George III. Laureate head. Lustrous. NGC graded MS-64 Brown. Estimated Value $400 - 500. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2480		Great Britain. Copper Twopence, 1797. George III. Soho Mint. S-3776. The classic "cartwheel" and largest copper coin ever issued by Great Britain. Never, before the innovations of Boulton and Watt at their Soho Mint in Birmingham, had anyone managed to strike such a massive coin of nearly pure copper, inside a collar that contained the coin and in effect created an anti-counterfeiting masterpiece. Russia's big coppers come to mind as similar coins, of the same era, but they are crude by comparison, with far different and less effective edges. This coin is quite literally the ultimate numismatic expression of the triumph in metal of the Industrial Revolution in England. It was struck just one year in this style (though in 1805 patterns were struck of the so-called Third Issue). Each year, this coin has grown in popularity worldwide for its distinctive qualities and visual appeal. It was made in huge numbers, by the ton, and continued in circulation through the Victorian Era, when it was in use as "bus fare"; piles were shoveled each day from trolley cars, accounting for the big edge and surface marks seen on most circulated examples. This use or circulation continued for at least a century, and high-grade coins are today fairly rare. This one is sensibly rated by NGC as a 63 but underestimated by them for its luster (NGC insert only; coin too large for slabbing, so it is not in plastic). It's a lovely Choice Red & Brown Uncirculated, with more than the usual quotient of mint red luster remaining, though it's mostly medium brown. Sharp strike. Exceptional. Coins of this caliber, with this much red luster, have been bringing more than our top estimate in recent auctions, sometimes a lot more. NGC graded MS-63 Brown. Estimated Value $850 - 1,000. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,520
Lot 2481		Great Britain. Pattern Twopence, 1805. Peck-1313. Bronze. By Taylor. Restrike. George III. Draped bust right with K on shoulder. Reverse: Britannia seated on rock with shield. Mottled brick-red surfaces. NGC graded Proof 64 Brown. Estimated Value $1,200 - 1,600. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2482		Great Britain. Pattern Penny, 1797. Peck-1096. Struck in bronzed copper on a thin flan. Helmeted Britannia seated left on a globe. Very Scarce. At the bottom of the obverse the original engraver's 'locating' concentric lines for the positioning of the lettering are still visible. NGC graded Proof 65 Brown. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,250. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,438
Lot 2483		Great Britain. Pattern penny, 1797. George III, Soho issue. P-1122. Small laureate and draped bust facing right. Very scarce, but particularly nice! Handsome mahogany-brown bronzed surfaces. NGC graded Proof 64 Brown. Estimated Value $950 - 1,100. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,035
Lot 2484		Great Britain. Bronzed Proof Penny, 1797. Peck-1123; S.3777. George III. NGC graded Proof 64 Brown. Estimated Value $750 - 900. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,320
Lot 2485		Great Britain. Penny, 1797. S.3777. George III. Just the currency issue, but the first ever British copper penny. This piece was intended to circulate widely, and practically all specimens of this date are flat or worn badly. This piece has fresh mint luster, and has never seen circulation in over 200 years. NGC graded MS-61 Brown. Estimated Value $600 - 700. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,208

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