x The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck Collection of Numismatic Portraits from Medieval Flanders and Tudor England | Victoria (1837-1901), Specimen Gothic Crown, MDCCCXLVII [1847] UNDECIMO, by W Wyon, Gothic bust left, rev. crowned shields cruciform, edge lettered downwards, 28.37g, 6h (Bull 2571; ESC 288; L&S 57; Spink 3883), a breathtaking example of Wyons Magnum Opus, with wisps of cabinet contact in otherwise brilliant fields, an astonishing snake of iridescent blue trailing across obverse fields culminating in flaming reddish-purple in Victorias Gothic Crown, splendidly choice FDC Provenance Spink, November 1991
