Choice Proof with full lustre and attractive toning
the original box a little rough with Sellotape repair to front edge and a broken hinge on one side
SEPT MDCCLXI
date in exergue (Freeman 125
George III 1808 Half-Guinea, 7th head, AU58, ex Baumhauer Choice Proof with full lustreGeorge III (1760 1820), gold Half Guinea, 1808, Military type, seventh laureate head right, legend GEORGIVS III DEI GRATIA, rev. quartered shield of arms within crowned garter, French legend on garter HONI. SOIT. QUI. MAL. Y. PENSE., date below, legend commences upper right, BRITANNIARUM REX FIDEI DEFENSOR, weight 4. 24g (Schneider ; EGC 852; MCE 444; S. 3737). Toned example with good underlying residual mint lustre, graded by NGC as AU58.