A rare and yet puzzling technological sample of a 1919 fifty-penny coin, with the image of Saint George on the reverse.
This item comes from the archives of the liquidated Kings Norton mint, where it was purchased in its entirety with documentation in 2003 in Birmingham, by Karl Stephens, auctioneer of the Karolkiewicz Collection.
The coin's obverse is consistent with the denomination SAMPLE, while the reverse with St. George was struck at the Birmingham Mint and is therefore stylistically different from the depiction of St. George on sovereigns issued by the Royal Mint.
The type of this coin is present in the NGC and PCGS registers.
The only piece with the highest grade in the PCGS registry.
In the case of proof coins of the Second Republic, also with rare samples of this period, there are all sorts of objections and speculations about the circumstances of the item's creation in the era, which are difficult to address unequivocally due to the lack of reliable and unambiguous sources, nevertheless the coin in question is present in the registers of PCGS and NGC, and also appears as a separate item in the catalog by Janusz Parchimowicz "Coins of the Republic of Poland 1919-1939", with the understanding that with regard to proof coins of this period not all issues have been fully examined and in many cases a question mark necessarily remains.
