Pattern or Trial striking of obverse die for a Shilling, 1787, by Jean-Pierre Droz, struck in lead, tall laureate bust right, D. on truncation, date below, GEORGIUS III. D.G. MA.BR.F.ET H. REX, beaded border, rev. blank but heavily filed, edge plain, 4.41g. (cf.ESC 1242), practically as struck, of the highest rarity

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Pattern or Trial striking of obverse die for a Shilling, 1787, by Jean-Pierre Droz, struck in lead, tall laureate bust right, D. on truncation, date below, GEORGIUS III. D.G. MA.BR.F.ET H. REX, beaded border, rev. blank but heavily filed, edge plain, 4.41g. (cf.ESC 1242), practically as struck, of the highest rarity
Provenance
Glendining, 10 March 1982, lot 254