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Auction: 19051 - The Isladulcie Collection of English Hammered Gold Coins
Lot: 41

Edward III (1327-77), Noble, Tower, class I, 7.45g [115.0gns], 2h, {Treaty lettering], double saltire stops, ed | ward dei * g * re*x * ang * z * fra : dns : hyb aq | t, annulet before edward, ropes 3/2, ornaments -11-11, quatrefoils 4/3, crescent on forecastle, bowsprit behind, rev. i.m. cross pattée [6], reads mediv', large e in centre (LAL, group I {Post-Treaty/Treaty 'mules'}, pl. XIX, no. 1, same obverse die; Doubleday 281, same dies; Potter 2; cf. Stewartby III {'class I'}, 916; Schneider I, 107, same dies; N.1277; S.1517), creased, and struck with a rusty obverse die, otherwise a bolder fine, very rare

Purchased Heidelberg, Germany, 20 August 2006



This coin is die linked to the Doubleday specimen, the obverse of which was noted in study by Lawrence and Whitton to be latterly paired with a Calais reverse die, cf. Glendining, 7-8 June 1972, lots 298-299 and Whitton, BNJ XXIV, pp. 110-112.

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£1,400