Yeo-Tanner Pattern Shilling

CNG 103, Lot: 1205. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HANOVER. George III. 1760-1820. Pattern AR Shilling (25mm, 12 h). Tower (London) mint. Dies by Yeo or Tanner. Dated 1764. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Crowned cruciform coats-of-arms around Order of the Garter. ESC 1238. In NGC encapsulation graded PF 63. Toned.

Ex Slaney Collection (Part II, Spink 229, 14 May 2015), lot 509 (hammer £5200); K. R. Readhead Collection, purchased by Baldwin in 1950; Col. H. W. Morrieson Collection (Sotheby & Co., 20 November 1933), lot 841 (part of); J. G. Murdoch Collection (Part III, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 15 March 1904), lot 288 (part of).