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Description
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, George VI of the House of Windsor, King of the United Kingdom 1936-1952 AD, Gold Proof Two Pounds (16.01g, 28mm), 1937, Coronation issue, Royal mint, London. Obverse: Bare head of King George VI facing to the left, engraver’s initials “HP” (Humphrey Paget) below truncation, legend surrounds, “GEORGIVS VI D:G: BR: OMN: REX F:D: IND: IMP.”. Reverse: Saint George, wielding sword and wearing plumed helmet and billowing cloak, mounted atop his horse which rears right above a fallen dragon, his broken lance remains half embedded and the shaft rests to the left on the exergual ground-line, engraver’s initials ‘B.P’ (Benedetto Pistrucci) and date in exergue. Marsh-T46; S-4075. Proof Mintage of 5,501. Typical light hairlines which are all the more highlighted with macro photography, very attractive in hand and an ever-popular proof issue, Fleur de Coin.
The obverse Latin legend is the Royal titulature of King George V and reads unabridged as “Geōrgius quīntus, Deī grātiā, Britanniārum Omnium Rēx, Fideī Dēfēnsor, Indiae Imperātor”, with an English translation of “George the Fifth, by the Grace of God, King of all the British People, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India”.
