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Auction: 24004 - British and World Coins and Medals Spring Auction
Lot: 119

Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Third 'Restoration' Coinage, Sixth Issue, Gold Crown, 1 May 1600 - 20 May 1601, Tower, (m.m.) ELIZAB '• D '. G '. ANG •' FR •' ET • HI REGINA • crowned and elaborately decorated bust 8C left, rev. (m.m.) SCVTVM • FIDEI • PROTEGET • EA '• crowned square-topped and lightly garnished shield dividing E-R, m.m. O, 2.78g [42.9grns], 9h (Durlacher 151; Dr R T Cassel 291; British Museum 1935,0401.2060 same dies; Raynes 159; V J E Ryan 342; Lockett 4101; AHH Virtual 145 [Sale I, lot 57]; Brown & Comber H22; Schneider I, 815; North 2010; Spink 2536), an area of striking softness in bottom left quadrant of Tudor shield and subtle brightness in obverse fields, otherwise naturally lustrous with wisps on honey-golden tone to peripheries, a most pleasingly bold very fine, very rare

Provenance

M Roberts, by private treaty, 2020

Christopher Comber, Part I, Baldwin of St James's 50, 15 October 2020, lot 40 - "possibly once cleaned, a few weak areas, otherwise sharply struck, almost extremely fine" - £8,800

R Richardson, by private treaty with Comber

SNC, December 1999, no. 5039 - "good very fine and a very rare mark" - £1,650

Glendining, 19 June 1974, lot 19 - "very fine" - £900


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Estimate
£8,000 to £12,000

Starting price
£7500