The Gary Oddie Collection of English Regal Shillings

George III (1760-1820), Pre-1816 issues, Shilling, 1787/6, no hearts, no stops at date, harp with 7 strings, 6.02g/12h (ESC 2128; S 3745). Some flan flecking on upper obverse, otherwise about very fine £60-£80

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, The Gary Oddie Collection of English Regal Shillings.

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The 1787-dated shillings were a private venture of the Bank of England intended to please favoured customers, not as a circulating medium of exchange. The ubiquity of surviving high-grade specimens and the long retention of them in the Bank of England’s vaults are consistent with their distribution on a small scale (Manville and Gaspar, BNJ 2004, p.91). For the rational ordering of this series, see the article by them