Details
Pattern or Trial striking of obverse die, undated (1818), by Benedetto Pistrucci, struck in a pewter alloy on a Crown size flan, large laureate bust right, wreath with two tie ends, border and legend lines added, field faintly divided into squares, rev. blank, edge plain (L&S 173), two edge knocks, otherwise practically as struck, of the highest rarity
Provenance
From the engraver's estate
Baron Philippe de Ferrari La Renotiere, Sotheby, 27 March 1922, lot 76 Bought Seaby, March 1948
H M Lingford, Glendining, 24 October 1950, lot 475
Bought Spink and Son, 19 April 1988