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GI27042

George III 1804 Half-Guinea, Iverson dies 2/A NGC MS64

Regular price £2,500
Regular price Sale price £2,500

George III (1760-1820), gold Half Guinea, 1804, seventh laureate head right, Latin legend and toothed border surrounding, GEORGIVS III DEI GRATIA, rev. quartered shield of arms with crowned escutcheon of the arms of Hanover, all within crowned garter, Old French legend on garter reads as HONI. SOIT. QUI. MAL. Y. PENSE., date below, Latin legend commences upper right, BRITANNIARUM REX FIDEI DEFENSOR, edge milled (Iverson dies 2/A; Bull EGC 849; MCE 442; S.3737). A pleasing example with an attractive light orange hue, particularly on the reverse, scarcer die variety, graded by NGC as MS64.

NGC Certification 6340068-002.

We note only one example graded higher as of November 2022.

There must have been a lot of dies used for the 1804 coinage of what was only currency Half and Third Guineas as the output for this calendar year amounted to £718,397 worth of gold which is the highest for this type of the Half-Guinea.

The Latin legend on the obverse translates as "George the Third by the Grace of God", King of the Britons, Defender of the Faith".

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