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Auction: 19025 - Ancient, Indian and Islamic, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1677

Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Half-Pound {of 10-Shillings}, sixth issue, Tower, 5.49g, m.m. tun, elizab' d.' g.' ang.' fra' et: hib.' regi.', crowned bust with flowing hair and elaborate dress left, rev. crowned shield dividing e-r (cf. Schneider 809, although regina abbreviated; N.2009; S.2535), a hint of cabinet friction and die shifting, otherwise attractive, extremely fine or near so

provenance
Spink 221, 2-3 December 2013, lot 628
Believed to be
Kendall Hazeldine, Sotheby, 3 April 1914, lot 109 - "very fine - £3.7.6. (to Spink)


Whilst the legend abbreviation ~REGI~ is not represented in Schneider's corpus (indeed its rarity is testified by the marked absence of a comparable specimen at worldwide public auction over at least the past two decades), these dies are shared by an example plated in the Hazeldine sale. Whilst the 1914 plate testifies to a coin struck on an extremely regular but apparently flawed planchet (note ANG), careful analysis identifies a sufficiently strong degree of similarity both in physical subtleties of flan shape and die shifting as exhibited on the present coin, to permit the present cataloguer to conclude that they are in fact one and the same coin, and that the plate discrepancy is simply an imperfection borne out of the wax casting process

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Sold for
£12,000