Pattern or Trial striking of reverse die, undated (1818), by Benedetto Pistrucci, struck in lead on a Crown size flan, St. George slaying dragon right, within narrow garter, ruled with horizontal lines, HONI.SOIT.QUI.MAL. Y.PENSE, pellet at centre, all within a toothed border, rev. plain, except HF scratched thereon (L&S 177), one or two light marks, extremely fine, of the highest rarity

Details

Pattern or Trial striking of reverse die, undated (1818), by Benedetto Pistrucci, struck in lead on a Crown size flan, St. George slaying dragon right, within narrow garter, ruled with horizontal lines, HONI.SOIT.QUI.MAL. Y.PENSE, pellet at centre, all within a toothed border, rev. plain, except HF scratched thereon (L&S 177), one or two light marks, extremely fine, of the highest rarity

Provenance

Capt H E G Paget, Glendining, 25 September 1946, lot 423
H M Lingford, Glendining, 24 October 1950, lot 479
Bought Spink and Son, 19 April 1988