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Auction: 21064 - The Horace Hird Collection of Tudor, Stuart and Commonwealth Coins and Patterns
Lot: 3

AU53 | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), First 'Tentative' Coinage, First Issue [Fine Gold], Angelet or Half-Angel [of 5 Shillings], (Pyx Period: 1 January 1561 - 31 October 1562), Tower, (m.m.) ELIZABETH • D .' G .' ANG .' FRA .' ET • HIB .' REGINA, beaded inner circles, St. Michael vanquishing Dragon, rev. (m.m.) A • DNO '. FACTVM • EST • ISTVD .' ET EST • MIRA' •, Ship surmounted by square-topped shield and crucifix mast dividing E [over rose] and Rose [over E], twisted rigging 2/1, with bowsprit, waves lapping below, 2.44g [37.7grns], 10h, m.m. cross-crosslet (HCN 115; Montagu -; Murdoch -; Lockett 3283 this coin; SCMB 632 [1971], G469 same dies; Comber I, -; Schneider I, -; Brown & Comber D2; North 1980; Spink 2517), a hint of creasing, otherwise a broad striking on a full flan, the die-sinker's error with reversed cognizances delightfully clear, good fine / almost very fine, excessively rare, in NGC 'Horace Hird' holder, graded AU53 (Cert. #6135299-003)

Provenance
A Lost Parcel from the Celebrated Horace Hird Collection
R C Lockett, Part III, Glendining, 4-5 November 1958, lot 3283 - very fine and extremely rare - £60.0.0



Brown and Comber record four instances of this privy mark for denomination [not accounting for duplication] as listed in the Spink Numismatic Circular and Seaby Bulletin between 1937 and 1983. Challis records the mint output for this Pyx Period at £7,145 for Fine Gold, and £106,278 for Crown Gold.


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Sold for
£3,500

Starting price
£1000