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Auction: 21064 - The Horace Hird Collection of Tudor, Stuart and Commonwealth Coins and Patterns
Lot: 26

MS60 | Henry VIII (1509-1547), Third Coinage, Half-Sovereign, 1546-1547, Bristol Castle, (Under-Treasurer, William Sharrington), (WS) hEnRIC ?x 8 : D '. G '. AGL .' FRAnCIE : Z : hIB .' REX : double saltire stops, King enthroned holding orb and sceptre, rev. iHS .' AVTE '. TRAnSIEnS : PER MEDI .' ILLOR .' IBAT, crowned squared-topped shield flanked by Royal supporters, HR in cartouche beneath, trefoil stops, Lombardic lettering, 6.11g [94.0grns], 10h, p.m. WS/- (HCN 25; Kenyon 98/20; Whitton, Part IV, pp. 317-318, Pl. XXIII, 2 same dies; Montagu -; Murdoch -; Lyddon 21; Ryan 150 this coin; Lockett -; Whitton variant 2; Schneider I, -; North 1829; Spink 2298), striking weakness as usual for series, otherwise on a neat round flan, a pleasing very fine, of the highest rarity and known from only one pair of dies, in NGC 'Horace Hird' holder, graded MS60 (Cert. #6135299-026)

Provenance
A Lost Parcel from the Celebrated Horace Hird Collection
V J E Ryan, Part I, Glendining, 28 June 1950, lot 150 - very fine and rare - £27.0.0 [Spink for Hird]
Probably
Major PWP Carlyon-Britton, SCMB M286, New Year 1938, J14/3 - VF, but centre rather weak, extremely rare of this mint for this denomination - £12.10.0


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Sold for
£16,000

Starting price
£3000