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Auction: 21007 - British and World Coins Autumn Auction
Lot: 128

Edward III (1327-1377), Pre-Treaty Period, Noble, July 1357-June 1358, Series Ga/Gb, Henry de Brisele (Master), London, annulet before E | DWARD . DEI . GRA . REX . ANGL . 7 . FRANC . D hY | B, King standing in ship, holding a sword and shield, ropes 3/1, quatrefoils 3/4, ornaments -11-11, annulet stops, rev. + IhC x AVTEM . TRAnCIEnS x P MEDIVM x ILLORVM IBAT, floriate cross, crowned leopards in angles, E at centre, saltire stops, 7.66g, 6h, p.m. cross pattée (Brooke [1911] cf. 18-19 and 23 [?], this coin not listed; Lawrence [1932], Part III, pp. 119; LAL AW/16; cf. Schneider I, 43; North 1179/1180; Spink 1490), a small fracture to edge at 1 o'clock, and struck with rusty dies, otherwise handsome golden-ochre tone, a pleasing very fine, and with a distinguished pedigree

provenance
Spink, 1992
Spencer, 2 August 1979, lot 221
R C Lockett, Part V, 17 October 1961, lot 4258 [illus.] - very fine - £42.0.0 [Spink]
H J Gayford, by private treaty to Lockett
East Raynham (Norfolk) Find, December 1910


George Cyril Brooke of the British Museum documented this find in the annals of the Numismatic Chronicle for 1911 (pp. 291-330). 200 Nobles were discovered by Henry John Gayford (or Gifford [?]), land agent and sheep farmer whilst constructing a drain in the village four miles south-west of Fakenham. Brooke noted 119 obverse dies and 179 reverse dies with only 12 coins sharing dies, despite 165 examples emanating from the London Mint.


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Sold for
£4,500

Starting price
£1200