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Auction: 11024 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 94

Mary, sole rule, Fine Sovereign, 15.28g, mdliiii (1554), m.m. pomegranate, queen, crowned with flowing hair, seated on throne flanked by two pillars, portcullis below, rev. shield over rose (Schneider 705; N.1956; S.2488), short of flan at top, good portrait, very fine, this date extremely rare Estimate £ 30,000-40,000 There are believed to be only five examples of the 1554 Sovereign in private hands. This is thought to be the first example to appear at auction since 1993. provenance SCMB, October 1978, no. A.1117 W.L. Raynes, Glendining, 15-17 February 1950, lot 108 J.B. Heath, Sotheby, June 1937, lot 38 J. Haswell, Sotheby, 12 July 1926, lot 86

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£26,000