Pattern Guinea, 1791, by C H Kuchler, similar to preceding coin, struck on a thicker flan, en medaille, hair fractionally longer, extending closer to border, wreath with one berry and four leaves at top, truncation plain, rev. similar, edge plain, 10.91g. (cf.Montagu 526A; Murdoch 142; Nobleman -; Douglas-Morris 114 [this coin]; Num. Chron. Vol. XIII (1850-51), p.121, No.45), light haymark behind neck, otherwise brilliant, practically as struck, of the highest rarity

Details

Pattern Guinea, 1791, by C H Kuchler, similar to preceding coin, struck on a thicker flan, en medaille, hair fractionally longer, extending closer to border, wreath with one berry and four leaves at top, truncation plain, rev. similar, edge plain, 10.91g. (cf.Montagu 526A; Murdoch 142; Nobleman -; Douglas-Morris 114 [this coin]; Num. Chron. Vol. XIII (1850-51), p.121, No.45), light haymark behind neck, otherwise brilliant, practically as struck, of the highest rarity

Provenance

V M Brand Collection, dispersed post mortem from 1932
J G Brooker, purchased by Spink and Son, April 1971
Capt. K J Douglas-Morris, Sotheby, 26 November 1974, lot 114

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