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Auction: 19051 - The Isladulcie Collection of English Hammered Gold Coins
Lot: 84

Edward IV, First Reign (1461-70), Ryal, Tower, type VI, 7.71g [119.0gns], 8h, m.m. -/sun, single trefoil stops, including after dns i b, double after di, ropes 3/1, ornaments 1-|-1, quatrefoils 3/3, rev. reads tranniens, first n over e and similarly d over e in medivm, double trefoil stops, single after ihc' avt', nothing after per, large trefoils in spandrels (Kenyon {1884}, pp. 59, MB.5; Webb Ware {1985}, pp. 100, table 3, no. 7; Blunt and Whitton, type V/VI; Spink 213, 27-28 June 2012, lot 438, same dies; Stewartby III {'class VI'}, 953; Schneider I, 346; N.1549; S.1950), good very fine, the legend variety recorded in 1884, and confirmed in Webb Ware's 1985 corpus to originate from a single reverse die, this being the third example traced by the cataloguer, and by far the finest, very rare

provenance
Wayne, CNG 73, 13 September 2006, lot 1254



For die study, see T G Webb Ware, 'Dies and Designs: The English Gold Coinage: 1465-1485: Part 1", BNJ {1985}, pp. 95-133.

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Sold for
£3,800