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Sale 108
Lot 1103
George IV (1820-30). Gold Two Pounds, 1823, bare head left, tiny J.B.M. below truncation for engraver Jean Baptiste Merlen, abbreviated Latin legend and toothed border surrounding, GEORGIUS IIII D:G: BRITANNIAR: REX F:D:, Rev. St George and dragon right, W.W.P. below broken lance on ground-line for Mint Master William Wellesley Pole, date in exergue, initials B.P. to upper right of exergue for engraver Benedetto Pistrucci, edge engraved in raised letters, DECUS ET TUTAMEN. ANNO REGNI IV. (Schneider 635; MCE 470; S.3798; Fr.375; KM.690). Light red tone, has been graded and slabbed by NGC as MS63, of 94 examples currently graded, only seven pieces are finer; for comparison PCGS have currently graded 114 examples of which only 13 are finer. Estimate Value $4,500 - UP
Ex Comprehensive Collection of British Gold Coins, Glendining, May 1976, lot 26. Ex Thos. Law Collection, Stacks Bowers, 13th August 2013, lot 20345. Ex A H Baldwin, Fixed Price List, Winter 2013, item BM030.
NGC certification 4862402-005. The Latin legends translate as "George the Fourth by the Grace of God, King of all the Britons, Defender of the Faith" and on the edge as "An ornament and a safeguard, in the fourth year of the reign". The various initials that feature on the coin are for the engravers and Master of the Mint as shown above. William Wellesley Pole was the elder brother of the Duke of Wellington.
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