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209, Lot: 492. Estimate $150.
Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HANOVER. George III. 1760-1820. AR Crown (38mm, 28.32 g, 6h). Last or new coinage. Benito Pistrucci, engraver. Dated 1819. Laureate head right; PISTRUCCI below / St. George and the Dragon; PISTRUCCI below. ESC 215; SCBC 3787. Good VF, a few marks, retoning from an old cleaning.


The 181 in the date has been re-engraved, as have some of the letters in the Garter legend (notably the A in MAL). On re-engraving of dies, see notes 2 and 3 on p. 27 of ESC.