CNG 100, Lot: 2305. Estimate $750. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HANOVER. George III. 1760-1820. AR Crown (38mm, 28.33 g, 6h). New coinage. London mint. Dually dated RY LVIII and 1818. Laureate head right / St. George on horseback rearing right, holding reins and sword and slaying dragon to lower right; all within Collar of the Order of the Garter. ESC 212; SCBC 3787. In NGC encapsulation graded MS 62. Dark gray and muted royal blue toning.

Ex José Pellegrino Collection (Leu/Spink, 26 April 1978), lot 221, where cataloged as a proof.

Though described by NGC as a circulation strike, ESC notes: ”With some hesitancy these inscribed edge proofs have been included as they have been published previously and are generally considered to have been struck. This is confirmed by the other denominations of which there are undoubted proofs. The standard of the striking of these crowns was so high and they were issued, and are still found, in such perfect preservation that is is almost impossible to distinguish a proof from a perfect ordinary specimen.”