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Auction: 21007 - British and World Coins Autumn Auction
Lot: 143

Edward VI (1547-1553), Second Coinage, First Issue, Half-Sovereign, 24 January 1549 - 12 April 1549, Tower, (m.m.) EDWARD .' VI : D : G : AGL '. FRA '. Z : HIB : REX, crowned and garnished shield dividing E-[R], rev. (m.m.) SCVTVM * FIDEI * PROTEGET [*] EVM *: bare, draped and cuirassed bust right, 5.42g, 2h, m.m. arrow (Schneider I, 670; North 1908; Spink 2435), some minor marks in fields, otherwise a lovely full coin on a pleasingly neat round flan, the central devices and legends handsomely bold and considerably above average for this notoriously 'soft' issue, a bolder very fine, with peripheral hints of 'Chippendale' tone, rare and curious 'transposed legends' issue thus

provenance
Major The Lord St. Oswald MC, Christie's, 13 October 1964, lot 16 [illus.] - £115.0.0 [Spink]

Nostell Priory Collection, Wakefield:

'Lord St. Oswald at Nostell Priory in Yorkshire is the fortunate possessor of a remarkably fine coin-cabinet made by Chippendale for which there still exists the original bill. The cabinet contains a miscellaneous collection of coins such as a country gentleman of the eighteenth century would have got together, and, as might be expected, there are one or two pieces in the Anglo-Saxon series which are of outstanding interest.'

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Sold for
£13,000

Starting price
£3000