Pattern Two-pounds, 1820, by Benedetto Pistrucci, similar to preceding coin, but struck en medaille, edge plain, 16.01g. (Montagu -; Murdoch -; Nobleman 29 [this coin]; Douglas-Morris-), some light surface marks, otherwise brilliant, practically as struck and believed to be the only known example with this edge

Details

Pattern Two-pounds, 1820, by Benedetto Pistrucci, similar to preceding coin, but struck en medaille, edge plain, 16.01g. (Montagu -; Murdoch -; Nobleman 29 [this coin]; Douglas-Morris-), some light surface marks, otherwise brilliant, practically as struck and believed to be the only known example with this edge

Provenance

Baron Philippe de Ferrari La Renotiere, Sotheby, 27 March 1922, lot 29
V M Brand Collection, dispersed post mortem from 1932
Mortimer Hammell, Stack's, New York, 15 September 1982, lot 357

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