Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 31

Pre-Long Beach Coin Auction

George IV (1820-1830)

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 2565		Great Britain. Proof 5 Pounds, 1826. S.3797; Fr-373; KM-702. George IV. The largest gold coin of George IV, the Five Pounds was only struck in 1826, and then most of the small number of pieces were made for inclusion in the 11-coin Proof set of that year. With a handsome obverse bust of the King facing left and a reverse design of crowned shield and mantle, this is on of England's most attractive and rare 19th-century gold coins. Exceptionally pretty for a "62," and in fact above average. Very small mintage, exact figure unknown, but probably fewer than 200 exist, not many much nicer than this coin. NGC graded Proof 62. Estimated Value $14,000 - 17,000. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $15,000
Lot 2566		Great Britain. 2 Pounds, 1823. S.3798; Fr-375; KM-690. George IV. Bare head of George IV facing left, JBM below. Reverse: St. George and dragon. Although not a rare coin in low grade, the 1823 £2 is seldom seen in uncirculated condition. Top quality specimens have all but disappeared from the marketplace. This is a sharply struck, practically flawless coin with a light red old tone. MS-64-a great rarity in this grade. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $3,000 - 3,500. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,760
Lot 2567		Great Britain. 2 Pounds, 1826. S.3799; Fr-374; KM-701. George IV. Featuring the second (Chantry) bust of the King. Proof-62 probably undergraded, but a sharply struck brilliant Proof. One of only a few produced bearing this one year type date. NGC graded Proof 62. Estimated Value $6,000 - 6,500. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $6,325
Lot 2568		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1821. George IV. Laureate Head. Reeded edge. S-3800. WR-231 (rated R3, extremely rare). Fr-376; KM-682.Struck in very limited numbers (exact mintage not known) for inclusion in the Coronation Proof sets of this year. The 1821 set is among the rarest of all British Proof sets, as most have been broken up over the years by collectors desiring one or another denomination (and financially unable to retain the entire set). High quality is difficult to come by for the larger silver and especially for the gold pieces from those sets. The Norweb piece, which went into the Terner 1 auction, was deemed PR64 Deep Cameo by PCGS. It sold for $14,375 or more than 3 times our estimate in 2003. Dr Terner's duplicate, sold in the T2 auction, was graded PR65 Deep Cameo by PCGS but sold for less, $12,075 in 2004. We can explain the price discrepancy, perhaps, by remembering the lovely soft satiny texture of the T1/Norweb coin, compared to the blazing brilliance of the surfaces of the T2 specimen. The Cheshire specimen is beautifully frosted and similar in overall quality to the two Terner coins. Bidders should bear in mind that, while this item does appear with some frequency in UK sales (normally with a vague description), most known examples are abused, having hairlines and marks. The best three Proofs that we know about have appeared, one a year, in our last three "summer Long Beach" auctions. We expect strong bids for this gem! NGC graded Proof 64 Ultra Cameo. Estimated Value $7,500 - 9,000. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $7,820
Lot 2569		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1821. S.3800; Fr-376; KM-682. George IV, Laureate Head. A very scarce type to fine better than EF, this choice MS 64 example with satiny luster and lovely old-time yellow-gold tone fits in the best of collections. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,400. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,013
Lot 2570		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1823. George IV Laureate Head. S-3800. Fr-376; KM-682. One of the two key dates in this short series, with the highest catalogue value for any coin of its type (3,500 Pounds or about $6,650 in EF grade; not given any estimate of value in Uncirculated by the Spink guidebook). The great Terner collection included a PCGS MS63 of this date, and at the time the cataloguer noted that it took 17 years for Dr Terner to find a coin that nice. That coin sold in 2003 (lot 269) for $7,475. However, the Spink valuation at that time for an EF, before sovereigns became one of the hottest areas in English numismatics, was only 2,000 Pounds ($3,200). In other words, the T1 coin sold for more than twice catalogue. The only rarer George IV sovereign is the 1828 Bare Head type. It's almost impossible today to locate an 1823 of this quality. In fact, after this lot sells, we honestly would not know how to find another at any price. Bidders wishing to own this very rare coin should act accordingly, for this is one of the nicest 1823 sovereigns extant, with satiny surfaces, only a few scattered marks in line with the number grade given to it, and a nice balanced look, despite a few areas that are softly struck. One of the finest known of this rare date. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $7,000 - 8,500. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $8,913
Lot 2571		Great Britain. Proof gold overeign, 1826. S.3801; Fr-377a; KM-696; WR-237 (Rarity-2). George IV, Bare Head. Mintage: approximately 400 pieces. The special sets of this year were occasioned by the king's own request that his portrait on all his coinage be changed to this new style, which shows him as being much less portly than he actually was; it's quite a dignified bust, and all of the coins of this style are rarer than catalogue value suggest, in truly choice states. NGC graded Proof 65 Ultra Cameo. Estimated Value $5,000 - 6,000. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $6,095
Lot 2572		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1826. S.3801; Fr-377; KM-696. George IV, Bare Head. A pleasing lustrous example. NGC graded MS-62. Estimated Value $1,500 - 1,800. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,898
Lot 2573		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1829. S.3801; Fr-377; KM-696. George IV, Bare Head. To find a mint state example of the George IV 'bare head' sovereign without surface abrasions and cuts is truly rare. This coin is free of usual defects and has the sort of flawless finish normally associated with a proof or specimen. Very conservatively graded MS62. NGC graded MS-62. Estimated Value $1,800 - 2,200. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,128
Lot 2574		Great Britain. Half Sovereign, 1821. WR-243 (Rarity-6, just 3 to 5 known); DM-149. George IV. Laureate head left. Reverse: Crowned, square-topped shield, with a spray of thistle, rose and shamrock below. Reverse style used from 1823 to 1825 on the currency issues. Superb Choice Proof with a moderate cameo. A major opportunity for the specialist in rare British pattern gold. NGC graded Proof 64 Cameo. Estimated Value $4,000 - 6,000. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2575		Great Britain. Half Sovereign, 1824. S.3803; Fr-379; KM-689. George IV. Laureate head. Obverse has a few tiny toning spots on a glittering prooflike surface. Very rare date. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $750 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2576		Great Britain. Half Sovereign, 1825. S.3803; Fr-379; KM-689. George IV. Laureate head. Prooflike obverse with a satiny and boldly struck reverse. An especially choice example of the last date of this design style. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $750 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2577		Great Britain. Gold Proof Half Sovereign, 1826. George IV. Bare head. S-3804. From one of the sets of this year, made to show off the new portrait so favored by the king himself over the previous Laureate style. Very scarce. Mintage unknown, unrecorded, but varyingly believed to be between 225 and 400 pieces, which seems accurate to this cataloguer. Light orange-gold toning. Some wispy hairlines but a very superior example of this wonderful design type. NGC graded Proof 65 Cameo. Estimated Value $2,750 - 3,250. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,760
Lot 2578		Great Britain. Half Sovereign, 1827. S.3804; Fr-380; KM-700. George IV. Bare head. Very choice with a sharp strike and satiny luster. Rare date and difficult to locate this nice. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $750 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2579		Great Britain. Half Sovereign, 1828. S.3804; Fr-380; KM-700. George IV, Bare Head. Last of just three years of issue for this rare type. A very pleasing lustrous coin. NGC graded MS-62. Estimated Value $1,100 - 1,300. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $930
Lot 2580		Great Britain. Crown, 1821. S.3805; ESC-246; Dav-104; KM-680.1. George IV. Secundo edge. Flawless fields and a sharp strike with a superb rainbow tone. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $2,600 - 3,000. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,880
Lot 2581		Great Britain. Pattern or Trial Strike copper Crown, 1821. ESC-249: R6, extremely rare! Just 3 or 4 pieces are known. George IV, Laureate Head style combined with the large Saint George reverse. Edge not readable in the slab, which calls it Plain Edge. A trial striking, but without edge lettering, for the adopted coinage which commenced this same year. Seldom seen, this is an intriguing piece which should interest all crown and pattern collectors and fanciers of this king's coinage. Officially this piece was never intended to leave the Mint, as a trial striking or coin of record for the first production of the then-new crown of George IV. Very choice except for a long scratch vertically just behind Saint George and into the horse's flank on the reverse. Dark brown surfaces. A fabulous rarity!. NGC graded MS-61. Estimated Value $3,500 - 4,000. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $4,025
Lot 2582		Great Britain. Silver Crown, 1822. George IV. S-3805. "SECUNDO" edge designated on the slab but not readable. Light lines under the color on obverse; the reverse, however, is superb. Flashy cartwheel luster is very evident beneath handsome, pastel bluish gray and mauve toning. The strike is especially crisp, with every tiny detail well defined, as they would be on a Proof. One of only two years of issue for this style crown, and 1822 is decidedly more difficult to find in choice condition than 1821. Very scarce so fine! NGC graded MS-63. Estimated Value $1,900 - 2,200. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,300
Lot 2583		Great Britain. Proof silver Crown, 1826. S.3806; ESC-257; KM-699. George IV. "SEPTIMO" inscribed edge (not viewable in the slab). One-year type, struck only as a Proof, today extremely difficult to locate as fine as the present specimen. Most are knocked about and ugly. Even the better ones, without much abuse, tend to be dingy gray in color. However, here we have for your bidding pleasure an unusually well-preserved Proof with deep blue toning. The owner of the Cheshire Collection tells us that he purchased an original, full set of 1826 Proofs just to acquire this crown! He has owned it for a number of years, and long ago disposed of the other pieces from the set. Mintage is not known but has long been thought to be about 400 pieces, as this was not the Coronation set but rather a set issued in very limited numbers to celebrate the new portrait so desired by the king himself, engraved after the marble bust of his majesty by Chantrey. This one would certainly have pleased the old boy! NGC graded Proof 64. Estimated Value $6,000 - 7,500. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $9,200
Lot 2584		Great Britain. Halfcrown, 1820. George IV. Laureate Head. Reeded edge. S.3807; ESC-629; KM-676. Lovely multi-shaded iridescent gold toning, mostly a bright sea-green. Exceptional eye appeal. The strike is so sharp that you can see every tiny detail in the small lions on the shield. Very rare grade for a rare coin, made as part of the first Proof coinage for this monarch. NGC graded Proof 65. Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,000. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,875
Lot 2585		Great Britain. Halfcrown, 1820. S.3807; ESC-628; KM-676. George IV. Laureate head left. Attractive silvery gray surfaces. NGC graded MS-63. Estimated Value $500 - 600. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $460
Lot 2586		Great Britain. Halfcrown, 1823. S.3808; ESC-634; KM-688. George IV. Second reverse. Laureate head left. Reverse: Crowned shield in garter. Toned a handsome silvery gray. NGC graded MS-63. Estimated Value $1,100 - 1,300. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2587		Great Britain. Halfcrown, 1824. S.3808; ESC-636; KM-688. George IV. Laureate head. A fantastic currency strike which gives the appearance of being a Proof, for which it could easily be mistaken. As a business strike in this grade, however, it may be even rarer than the Proof issue. Superb, bright blue and golden green iridescent toning sparkles atop glassy surfaces. Incredibly sharp in strike. A coiner's masterpiece of the Georgian Age!. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $1,750 - 2,000. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,185
Lot 2588		Great Britain. Halfcrown, 1825. George IV. Bare head. S.3809; ESC-642; KM-695. Superb, delicate golden mauve toning, a little softness of strike in the center of the shield as usually seen, but an exceptional example. Gem Uncirculated. One of the finest grade pieces known. NGC graded MS-65. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,250. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $920
Lot 2589		Great Britain. Halfcrown, 1826. George IV. Bare head. S.3809; ESC-647; KM-695. Issued in the sets. Quite rare; exact mintage unknown but a few hundred pieces at best, few of which can today claim to be as pretty as the present specimen. Deep golden blue iridescent toning. Frosty portrait. Splendid eye appeal! NGC graded Proof 64. Estimated Value $1,750 - 2,000. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,415
Lot 2590		Great Britain. Halfcrown, 1828. S.3809; ESC-648; KM-695. George IV. Bare head. Lustrous. Light golden toning. Rare date in this short series. One of the nicest seen in years. NGC graded MS-63. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,250. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2591		Great Britain. Halfcrown, 1829. S.3809; ESC-649; KM-695. George IV. Bare head. Dark gray toning with some colorful hues. NGC graded MS-61. Estimated Value $900 - 1,100. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $978
Lot 2592		Great Britain. Pattern silver Shilling, 1820. George IV Laureate Head. ESC-1246 (R5). Reeded edge (just discernible in the slab). Style of S-3810 of 1821. An extremely rare coin (R5 equates to 5-10 known, but the Cheshire collector notes knowledge of just 4 pieces). Prototype for the coming coinage, first of the new king, who of course had been Regent of England for years (from 1811 onward) under his father's dementia. This king became known for his exuberance and bravura, his high living, his love of all things sensual, and his artistic sensibilities. These seem all reflected in his coinage, among the most beautiful of all the English series. Here, however, is something very special, a superb piece that is really the predecessor of the great coins yet to be made. NGC graded PR64, but clearly a Gem Proof with a 100% strike. The mirrors are bright beneath the deep toning, which is an exquisite bluish gray, highlighted by flashes of sun gold. An exquisite and utterly rare and elegant coin! In fact, without doubt the finest known example. NGC graded Proof 64. Estimated Value $6,000 - 7,000. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $6,900
Lot 2593		Great Britain. Shilling, 1821. S.3810; ESC-1247; KM-679. George IV. Beautifully toned: pastel deep blue and gold. Sharp strike, with the shield in nice relief. Rare so fine, and a very choice example of this one-year type. NGC graded MS-65. Estimated Value $650 - 750. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $863
Lot 2594		Great Britain. Silver Shilling, 1823. George IV Laureate Head. Reverse: crowned shield inside garter. S-3811. Very rare date! EMC-1199, rated "R5, extremely rare in mint state." That reference is now 30 years old, and time-proven in its insights into the rarity of many British milled coins in high grade. The cataloguer has never seen or heard of a Gem of this date! Here is one of the finest to be found, ever, no matter how long you search: NGC graded MS62. Strong luster with no evidence of wear, usual softness of strike on the reverse but the portrait is highly detailed, lovely iridescent golden green toning, beneath which are a number of fine lines and small abrasions, accounting for the "62" assigned "grade." Nonetheless, about as fine as exists, and a major opportunity for the aware date collector! NGC graded MS-62. Estimated Value $950 - 1,200. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $834
Lot 2595		Great Britain. Proof silver Shilling, 1824. George IV Laureate Head. Reverse: crowned shield inside garter. S-3811. EMC-1202, listed as R5. ESC-1252, as R4: 11 to 20 pieces known, total. Truly elusive, and as many advanced collectors know the total known number includes coins locked up inside museums, which means that availability is even less; this is probably the R5 estimate (5 to 10 known) made by EMC. And, here is certainly one of the finest of the few extant pieces: a very Choice and lovely specimen, with a full sharp Proof strike, gleaming reflective mirrors around the devices, and bright toning which is bluish gray on obverse and a fetching, deep mauve on reverse. One of the rarest silver coins of this monarch, indeed of the first half of the 19th century. NGC graded Proof 64. Estimated Value $2,750 - 3,250. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,645
Lot 2596		Great Britain. Pattern silver Shilling, 1824. George IV Bare or Uncrowned Head. Thin inner circle surrounding the portrait and the reverse shield. Engraved by William Wyon and J.B. Merlen. ESC-1263. Plain edge (not viewable in the slab). R6: just 3 or 4 pieces known! Also known with a Reeded Edge, also R6. Thus, for those desiring to own this pattern, there are only 6 to 8 pieces to locate, of both edge types, including those in museums. So rare, the cataloguer has seen this coin only once before, in 25 years. Crowther (A Guide to English Pattern Coins, published in London, 1886) knew of only a Reeded Edge specimen, from the 1875 Marshall sale (at 9 Pounds, almost the same price as an Una and the Lion gold Five Pounds at the time). This is one of the most alluring of all patterns for this denomination, at once the prototype for the Bare Head type which was introduced as currency the following year, 1825, and also a specimen with a unique reverse which was probably a model for, or inspired, the exquisite engraving seen on the Proof crown of 1826. Yet, this reverse is distinctly different, and conceived on a high level, offering the eye a balance seldom found except on the most classical of items. A large squarish crown rests atop an intricately engraved Hanover Shield, beneath which the Order of the Garter banner appears as a spray with floriated ends. The fine circle separates this from the outer legend, which consists of the royal titles; the crown intrudes into this at 12 o'clock, and at 6 o'clock is a tiny Tudor rose, open, with three oak leaves at each side. Both sides have a deep-beaded rim, itself inside a high raised edge which is squared off. This wonderful specimen is tightly graded by NGC. Its surfaces are silvery gray and reflective, showing only fine hairlines and a few tiny ticks in the field behind the portrait. All in all, a wonderful memento of its age! The Cheshire collector believes this piece is the only example in private hands. NGC graded Proof 63. Estimated Value $5,000 - 6,000. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $5,175
Lot 2597		Great Britain. Shilling, 1824. S.3811; ESC-1251; KM-687. George IV. Laureate head. Reverse: Crowned shield. Light golden toning. Rare date. NGC graded MS-63. Estimated Value $700 - 800. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2598		Great Britain. Shilling, 1824. S.3811; ESC-1251; KM-687. George IV. Laureate head. Lustrous. Rare date. NGC graded AU-58. Estimated Value $125 - 175. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $108
Lot 2599		Great Britain. Pattern silver Shilling, 1825. George IV Bare Head. Small Lion reverse. ESC-1264: rated R5, Extremely Rare (just 5 to 10 pieces known, in all). Reeded edge (not viewable in the slab). This is the prototype for the coinage which began in 1825 (style as S-3812), but the beautifully trim, smaller lion and the crown he stands upon here, on this pattern, were remodeled for the issued coinage. Thus this reverse is unique to this pattern. It's a classic of its age, the time of the English literary Romantics, Byron and Shelley and Keats, all of whom wrote passionately about derring-do, and Byron was famous for swimming the Hellespont, in the Dardanelles straits. Their writings inspired the entire nation, and surely were a key to the concept of Imperialism which sent the navy around the globe and troops into almost every far corner of the world, in search of conquest. In other words, this period of time set the stage for Queen Victoria's reign, when England resembled ancient Rome as ruler of the world. The coin here offered has beautiful reflective surfaces and a hard gray toning showing iridescent highlights. The strike is deep. Only a few pieces are known. The great Terner Collection contained a PCGS PR66 example, probably the finest known, but this coin is also beautiful and must rank within the top 3 for quality. NGC graded Proof 63. Estimated Value $3,000 - 3,500. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2600		Great Britain. Shilling, 1825. S.3811; ESC-1253; KM-687. George IV. Laureate head. Reverse: Crowned shield. Lovely deep toning. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $600 - 700. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2601		Great Britain. Silver Shilling, 1825. George IV Laureate Head. Reverse: crowned shield inside garter. S-3811. Rare final year of this type. Silvery gray with pale gold highlights. Struck fairly well, all but the tiny details of the shield being full. NGC graded MS-62. Estimated Value $350 - 400. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $460
Lot 2602		Great Britain. Pair of Shillings. S.3811 and 3812; KM-687, 694. George IV. Laureate and bare head types. Lot of 2 coins. About Uncirculated. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details	Realized $184
Lot 2603		Great Britain. Shilling, 1825. S.3812; ESC-1254; KM-694. George IV. Bare head. Reverse: Lion on crown. Toned. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $350 - 400. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2604		Great Britain. Shilling, 1825. S.3812; ESC-1254; KM-694. George IV. Bare head. Reverse: Lion on crown. Toned. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $350 - 400. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $299
Lot 2605		Great Britain. Shilling, 1825. S.3812 (Listed only as Extremely Rare without a price). George IV. Bare head. Reverse: Lion on crown. Roman I in date. Obviously the die-cutter chose an "I" numeral, as used in the legend, instead of a number digit. What he so easily missed produced a remarkable rarity for present-day students of coins to savor! Rarity-7. Only one or two examples known. Undiscovered for many years, this is an incredibly rare coin. If it were a very fine piece it would be an important item, but its high grade elevates it to the realm of the spectacular. The lion is struck fully, right down to the tiny details in his snout! The toning is a pleasing, medium silvery gray. Surfaces nicer than the number grade suggests. Our estimate is, admittedly, a guess and only the bidders will determine its true value. NGC graded MS-62. Estimated Value $1,800 - 2,500. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,668
Lot 2606		Great Britain. Shilling, 1826. S.3812; ESC-1258; KM-694. George IV. Bare head. Reverse: Lion on crown. Attractively toned: dark blue and gold on a lovely gray base. Very choice and handsome too. NGC graded Proof 65. Estimated Value $500 - 600. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $805
Lot 2607		Great Britain. Shilling, 1826. S.3812; ESC-1257; KM-694. George IV. Bare head. Reverse: Lion on crown. Toned. NGC graded MS-65. Estimated Value $350 - 400. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $357
Lot 2608		Great Britain. Shilling, 1826. S.3812; ESC-1257; KM-694. George IV. Bare head. Reverse: Lion on crown. Prooflike obverse. Beautiful deep pastel toning, shades of mauve and blue. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $300 - 350. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $265
Lot 2609		Great Britain. Shilling, 1826. S.3812; ESC-1257; KM-694. George IV. Bare head. Reverse: Lion on crown. Toned. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $300 - 350. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $265
Lot 2610		Great Britain. Shilling, 1826. S.3812; ESC-1257; KM-694. George IV. Bare head. Reverse: Lion on crown. Toned. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $300 - 350. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $265
Lot 2611		Great Britain. Shilling, 1827. S.3812; ESC-1259; KM-694. George IV. Bare head. Reverse: Lion on crown. Very rare date, almost never found in Mint State. This is a lovely coin having a sharply struck lion and pleasing light, original silvery gold surfaces. Aside from the Roman I piece offered above, this is the key date among Bare Head shillings, and finding a better one could prove a major chore! Catalogues for £600 ($1,200) in "Unc" in the 2005 Spink book, but finding even a second one this nice, in the cataloguer's opinion, would be most difficult, no matter how much cash you have in your checkbook. It should be worth well over our estimate but only time will tell how acute bidders will be in this immense sale of lovely and rare British coins. NGC graded MS-63. Note to collectors. Want a real challenge? Try putting together a nice set of 1827 coinage, in all metals, of King George IV. Estimated Value $900 - 1,100. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,150
Lot 2612		Great Britain. Shilling, 1829. S.3812; ESC-1260; KM-694. George IV. Bare head. Reverse: Lion on crown. Toned a bright medium gray. Rare date. NGC graded MS-63. Estimated Value $750 - 850. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $748
Lot 2613		Great Britain. Sixpence, 1821. S.3813; ESC-1655; KM-678. George IV. Milled edge. Laureate head left. Reverse: Crowned Garnished shield. Bright gold and blue toning against a light gray, mirrored background. One of the nicest of these to be found! From the Proof set of this coronation year. Rare! NGC graded Proof 63. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,250. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2614		Great Britain. Sixpence, 1821. S.3813; ESC-1654; KM-678. George IV. Laureate head left. One-year type with this shield and portrait combination. Beautiful olive-green iridescent toning, and a solid Gem coin. Tiny details of the shield not fully struck. NGC graded MS-66. Estimated Value $550 - 650. The Cheshire Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold

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