gold proof Two Ounce of Two Hundred Pounds 999
legend surrounding commencing top right
The key date of this series
of the highest rarity and not recorded in Burns
49mm (BHM unlisted with this obverse
George III 1797 Guinea, 5th head, MS63, spade reverse, ex Baumhauer gold proof Two Ounce ofGeorge III (1760 1820), gold Guinea, 1797, fifth laureate head right, GEORGIVS . III. DEI. GRATIA, rev. spade shaped crowned quartered shield of arms, date below, legend reads in abbreviated Latin commencing lower left M. B. F. ET. H. REX. F. D. B. ET. L. D. S. R. I. A. T ET. E., weight 8. 39g (MCE 401; EGC 730; S. 3729). With reflective lustre and minimal handling marks, graded by NGC as MS63, a rare date.