x The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck Collection of Numismatic Portraits from Medieval Flanders and Tudor England | George II (1727-1760), Half-Guinea, 1738, first younger laureate head left, rev. large crowned garnished shield, edge obliquely milled, 4.17g [64.6grns], 6h (MCE 348; EGC 641; Spink 3681A), bagmarks in otherwise lustrous and quite brilliant fields, hints of orange tone in recesses, otherwise almost extremely fine, the reverse flashy and much as issued, seldom encountered at auction, especially in this grade Provenance Spink, 30 July 1991
