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Auction: 21007 - British and World Coins Autumn Auction
Lot: 146

Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Sixth Issue, 'Crown Gold', Pound of 20-Shillings, 1594-1596, Tower, ELIZABETH • D.' G•' ANG•' FRA•' ET • HIB•' REGINA •, tall crowned bust 8A left, wearing elaborate bodice of finely incised workmanship, annulet stops, rev. SCVTVM • FIDEI • PROTEGET • EAM •, crowned garnished shield, dividing E-R, annulet stops, 11.24g, 8h, m.m. woolpack (Brown and Comber F6; Lockett 1982 same obverse die; Schneider I, 799; North 2008; Spink 2354), trace doubling to reverse legend and scrubbed before portrait with resultant hairlines and brightness, otherwise lustrous and pleasingly round, a most handsomely bold very fine, rare in this condition

provenance
The Baron de Dinan Collection
Glendining, March 1963, lot 15 - £135.0.0 [via Baldwin]

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Sold for
£13,000

Starting price
£5000