Trial Strike from Unfinished Dies

CNG 109, Lot: 1088. Estimate $400. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HANOVER. temp. George III. 1760-1820. Trial Æ Medal (48mm, 46.3 g, 12h). Staffordshire Agricultural Society – Prize Medal. By C.H. Küchler. Soho (Birmingham) mint. Struck circa 1800. Britannia seated left on lion, raising hand, holding overflowing cornucopia; lion resting paws on Union shield / Wreath. Pollard, J.G, “Matthew Boulton and Conrad Heinrich Küchler,” in NC 1970, 21 note. In NGC encapsulation, 3298525-001, graded PF 63 BN. Extremely rare.

From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio 172 (15 November 2012), lot 10450.