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Auction: 19051 - The Isladulcie Collection of English Hammered Gold Coins
Lot: 56

Henry IV (1399-1413), Noble, Tower, type IIb, 5.58g [86.1gns], 4h, saltire stops, reads hib aq, annulet on stern, annulet and trefoil on side of ship, ropes 3/1 {twisted}, ornaments 1-1-1-1, quatrefoils 2/2 [?], castles crenellated, rev. i.m. cross pattée [6], additional trefoil in first and fourth quarter before leopard's head, pellet and large h in centre (Stewartby, "Primary phase", class Pbi; cf. Schneider I, 198, albeit no trefoil in second quarter; N.1355; S.1715), clipped and cleaned, somewhat flat, otherwise a strict fine, very rare, the reverse variant unknown to Schneider or Stewartby

provenance
Goldberg, "Pre-Long Beach" 59, 30 May 2010, lot 3060



Stewartby noted: "Another characteristic of the class P is the slipped trefoil, already found on very late dies for heavy [coinage] Nobles, but primarily associated with the first phase of the light coinage.". Further research by the present cataloguer would also suggest this to be a previously unrecorded reverse die featuring an additional trefoil before the leopard's head in both the first and fourth quarters

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£1,900