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Auction: 21064 - The Horace Hird Collection of Tudor, Stuart and Commonwealth Coins and Patterns
Lot: 13

UNC Details | Henry VIII (1509-1547), Third Coinage, Crown of the Double Rose, 1546-1547, Bristol Castle, (Under-Treasurer, William Sharrington), (m.m.) hEnRIC '. 8 • ROSA : + : SInE : + : SPInE : (trefoil) : double saltire stops, crowned double Tudor Rose, dividing crowned h - R, rev. : WS : D .' G.' AnGLIE : + : FRA .' Z : hIB '. REX :, crowned squared-topped shield dividing h - R, double saltire stops, Lombardic lettering, 3.03g [46.8grns], 7h, p.m. -/WS (HCN 36; Lockett 4344; Whitton variant 2; Schneider I, 640; North 1836; Spink 2310), a slightly irregular flan and some smoothing to reverse 2 o'clock, otherwise lustrous and handsomely uniform, a really good very fine, very rare, in NGC 'Horace Hird' holder, graded UNC Details ~ Reverse Spot Removed (Cert. #6135299-013)

Provenance
A Lost Parcel from the Celebrated Horace Hird Collection

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£5,200

Starting price
£1500