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Live auction - fwo_456889 - GREAT-BRITAIN - WILLIAM IV Souverain, 2e type 1837 Londres

GREAT-BRITAIN -  WILLIAM IV Souverain, 2e type 1837 Londres VF
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Estimate : 500 €
Price : 391 €
Maximum bid : 398 €
End of the sale : 12 December 2017 18:15:56
bidders : 3 bidders
Type : Souverain, 2e type
Date: 1837
Mint name / Town : Londres
Quantity minted : 1173000
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,8 g.
Edge : cannelée
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire présentant une usure régulière et prononcée de circulation
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du Docteur Frédéric Nordmann

Obverse


Obverse legend : GULIELMUS IIII D:G: BRITANNIAR: REX F: D:.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Guillaume IV à droite ; signé W. W. en creux sur la tranche du cou.
Obverse translation : (Guillaume IV par la grâce de Dieu, roi des Bretons, défenseur de la Foi).

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANNO - 1837.
Reverse description : Écu festonné couronné, écartelé aux 1 et 4 d'Angleterre, au 2 d'Écosse, au 3 d'Irlande, sur le tout un écu aux armes de Brunswick.

Commentary


Le souverain de Guillaume IV fut fabriqué entre 1831 et 1837. Pour le premier buste, il existe deux variantes de signatures pour Wyon, avec ou sans points après W W.

Historical background


GREAT-BRITAIN - WILLIAM IV

(06/25/1830-06/20/1837)

Guillaume IV (21/07/1765-20/06/1837), second son of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg, succeeded his brother in 1830. He married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1792-1849) but they did not had no children and it was his niece Victoria I who succeeded him in 1837.

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