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Auction: 21064 - The Horace Hird Collection of Tudor, Stuart and Commonwealth Coins and Patterns
Lot: 8

MS62 | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Third 'Restoration' Coinage, Sixth Issue [Fine Gold], Angel [of 10 Shillings], (Pyx Period: 1 February 1592- 8 May 1594), Tower, (m.m.) ELIZABETH : D .' G .' ANG .' FR '• ET • HI .' REGINA, St. Michael vanquishing Dragon, rev. (m.m.) A : DNO : FACTVM : EST : ISTVD : ET : EST ' MIRARI ' [sic], Ship surmounted by square-topped shield and crucifix mast dividing E and Rose, twisted rigging 3/2, with bowsprit, waves lapping below, 5.13g [79.2grns], 10h, m.m. tun (HCN 110; Montagu -; Murdoch -; Lockett 4092; Comber II, 125; Schneider I, 786-790 this m.m. unrepresented; Brown & Comber C42; North 2005; Spink 2531), staining at 11 o'clock and a minor hint of die clashing in legends, otherwise lustrous and attractively cabinet toned, a most handsome and neat round coin, the legend reading unusual, a really good very fine, very rare thus, in NGC 'Horace Hird' holder, graded MS62 (Cert. #6135299-008)

Provenance
A Lost Parcel from the Celebrated Horace Hird Collection
Baldwin, 31 August 1959 - £18.0.0


Brown and Comber record twelve 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 £46,973.

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Sold for
£9,000

Starting price
£2500