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PEACE, 1651 (Rud. pi. xxxii. n. 1), 18 10s.; a
pattern half-crown by Blondeau (Snelling, pi. vi. n. 18), on edge
TRVTH . AND . PEACE . 1651 . PETRVS . BLOND^EVS .
INVENTOR . FECIT., 25 another ; by same artist (Snelling,
pi. Ti. n. 14), on edge, IN . THE . THIRD . YEARE . OF .
FREEDOME . BY . GODS . BLESSING . RESTORED . 1651.,
11 15s.; and a like shilling, with engrailed edge (Snelling,
pi. vi. n. 12), 1 10s. Of the Protector's coinage of 1658, with
rev. PAX . QV^ERITVR . BELLO, a crown, half-crown,
shilling, and crown (Dutch) in silver, all of same type, realised
5, 3 3s., 2 18s., and 8 15s. respectively; and a twoshilling
piece, 1656, with bare neck, and with &c. before PRO.,
edge plain, 25 ; and of the gold coins a fifty -shilling piece,
1656, laureate head to 1., neck bare, rev. PAX . QV.ERITVR .
BELLO., edge inscribed + PROTECTOR . LITERIS .
LITERS! . NVMMIS . CORONA . ET SALVS, 77. (This
com was from the Hollis, Edmonds, Duncombe, and Wigan
cabinets.) Of the hammered coins of Charles II. were sold a
half-crown, m.m. crown, without value and inner circle,
9 2s. 6d. ; and a similar coin, with value XXX and inner
circle, 1 7s.;
without value,
also a half-sovereign, gold, of the usual type and
14 10s. Of the milled coinage of Charles II.,
a five-guinea piece, 1668, with elephant under bust, realised
8 17s. 6d. a similar coin of James ; II., 1687, with elephant
and castle, 15 10s.; and another of William and Mary, of same
type, dated 1691, 13 10s.; the two-guinea piece, of 1694, was
sold for 10 Is. Five guinea pieces, of succeeding sovereigns,
were sold as follows, of William III., 9 of ; Anne, 15 of
;
George I., 11 and of ; George II. 9 5s. and 8 10s. Of Anne
a pattern guinea, 1702, undraped bust to 1., with lock of hair
on shoulder, rev. legend and type as on current guinea, 15 15s.
Among the rarer coins of George III. there were, in silver, a pattern
crown, 1818, by Pistrucci, very large head laureate to r.,
rev. St. George and Dragon within garter, 20 ; in gold, a pattern
five-guinea piece, 1773, by Tanner, young bust, with long hair,
but not curling below truncation, rev. M . B . F . ET . H . REX,
&c., garnished shield of arms, crowned, 23 10s. ; a similar
piece, 1777, by Yeo, bust different with hair curling below the
truncation, edge plain, 25 10s. ; and a pattern two-guinea
piece, 1768, by Tanner, of the same type as his five-guinea piece,
8 15s. ; the pattern five-pound piece, 1820, by Pistrucci, large
head of king to r., below, PISTRUCCI, rev. St. George and the
Dragon, with artist's name, on edge, DECUS, &c., 31. The
pattern five-pound piece of George IV., 1826, by Wyon, arms
on mantle crowned, sold for 8 ; and a pattern crown in gold,
1831, of William IV., rev. royal arms encircled by the collar of