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Auction: 16022 - The Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby: English Coins part 4, Coins of Edward III to Richard III
Lot: 1373

Edward IV, first reign, (1461-1470), Light Coinage, Groats (2), London, Xa, 3.01g, mm. long cross fitchée /sun, trefoils by bust, on cusps and on breast, rev, trefoil after devm; Group XIb, 2.89g, mm. long cross fitchée, trefoil stops, trefoils on cusps and breast, nothing by neck, rev, no stops (N.1577, 1579; S.2003, 2002; Stewartby p.431, Xa, /XIb), both toned, very fine the second cracked but extremely rare (2)

provenance:
(i) R C Lockett, Glendining, 4-6 November 1958, lot 3143
Bt A H Baldwin, June 1999
(ii) E M H Norweb
I Buck, Spink 176, 30 November 2005, lot 315

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