225, Lot: 685. Estimate $150. Sold for $210. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HANOVER. Victoria. 1837-1901. AR Double-Florin (36mm, 22.67 g, 12h). Jubilee coinage. London mint; Joseph Edgar Boehm, engraver. Dated 1889. Crowned, veiled, and draped bust left / Crowned cruciform coats-of-arms of England, Scotland, and Ireland around rayed central Garter Star; scepter in each angle. ESC 398A; SCBC 3923. Superb EF. Rare.

Featuring a broken die punch, the second ‘I’ in the obverse legend appears as an inverted ‘1,’ a rare variety exhibited in both the 1888 and 1889 Double-Florins.