George V (1910-36), uniface bronze reverse trial or model for Pattern Crown, undated, c.1910, by Allan Gairdner Wyon, stylised St George in flowing cloak on horseback, plunging lance into dragon, A.G.W. incuse to lower right, toothed border, diameter 100mm; framed with label on the back printed "FROM ALLAN G WYON, 80 BOUNDARY ROAD, ST. JOHN'S WOOD, LONDON, N.W.8." handwritten underneath "St George", as struck and of the highest rarity

细节

George V (1910-36), uniface bronze reverse trial or model for Pattern Crown, undated, c.1910, by Allan Gairdner Wyon, stylised St George in flowing cloak on horseback, plunging lance into dragon, A.G.W. incuse to lower right, toothed border, diameter 100mm; framed with label on the back printed "FROM ALLAN G WYON, 80 BOUNDARY ROAD, ST. JOHN'S WOOD, LONDON, N.W.8." handwritten underneath "St George", as struck and of the highest rarity

拍品专文

The contemporary crown-size Wyon patterns of 1910, with the obverse portrait of George V came with two reverses, undated, as this, with the date in the obverse legend (ESC 382-386B) or with the dragon raised on a ground line, with the date below (ESC 387-396B). There were no contemporary pattern Crowns dated 1911, the first year of the new coinage.