British Coins from the Collection of Ian Sawden

George III (1760-1820), Pre-1816 issues, Pattern [believed to be for a Penny], 1799, by J. Westwood Jr, in copper, laureate bust right dividing date, rev. vigebit in omne aevum in four lines, edge plain, 24.33g/12h (Montagu 28; cf. BMC pp.237-8; BHM 465; cf. DNW 147, 1556). Minor spotting, otherwise virtually as struck, attractive patina £200-£260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Coins from the Collection of Ian Sawden.

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Provenance: St James’s Auction 10, 6-7 November 2008, lot 876.

Although BHM and many other recent cataloguers have ascribed these pieces to J.-P. Droz, it is clear from the portrait, which is extremely close in likeness to the ‘British Commercial’ series of 1797 patterns by J. Westwood Jr, that Westwood was the artist responsible for them; Droz had long fallen out of favour in British minting circles by 1799