 Victoria. Pattern Proof 5 Pounds, 1887. Jubilee bust l. by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, created to mark the 50th anniversary of the Queen's reign. Rv. Pistrucci's St. George and the Dragon, without artist's initials B.P. in the exergue, reeded edge. Linecar 73, S.3864, Montagu 1561, Murdoch 494, Nobleman 251/252. This breath-taking coin's glittering liquid-glass fields are ''hallmarked'' by two hair-fine parallel lines below the horse's nose. This is one of the greatest, if less known rarities of the Victorian Gold coinage, of which a mere handful exists. For sheer beauty and absolute rarity it is a coin that might well be impossible to duplicate. Brilliant Proof or finer. (Est. $8,000-$10,000)
Ex Captain K.J. Douglas-Morris Collection (Sotheby & Co., lot 236); previously ex Lady Duveen Collection (Glendining and Co., September 1964, lot 68).
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