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Auction: 17011 - The Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby: English Coins Part 5, Tudor and Stuart Coins
Lot: 1595

Henry VIII (1509-47), second coinage, Halfgroats (2), London, 1.19g, m.m. rose, henric viii di g r agl z fra, mixed letters, saltire stops, crowned bust right, rev. posvi dev adivtoe mev, Lombardic letters, saltire stops, shield on long cross fourchée; 1.21g, m.m. lis/rose, d g r, otherwise as previous (N.1800; S.2341A, 2341; Stewartby p.471), rough surfaces, the first good fine and very rare, the second creased, good fine and rare (2)

provenance:
(i) Shirley-Fox bequest 1939
C E Blunt
(ii) Bt Spink, September 1954


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