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Auction: 21064 - The Horace Hird Collection of Tudor, Stuart and Commonwealth Coins and Patterns
Lot: 29

MS64 | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Third 'Restoration' Coinage, Sixth Issue [Crown Gold], Half-Pound Sovereign [of 10-Shillings], (Pyx Period: 8 February 1599 - 30 April 1600), Tower, ELIZABETH : D .' G .' ANG .' FRA '. ET : HI .' REGINA, crowned bust 8B left, rev. (m.m.) SCVTVM • FIDEI • PROTEGET • EAM • crowned square-topped shield dividing E-R, 5.42g [83.3grns], 10h, m.m. anchor over key (HCN 160; Montagu III, -; Murdoch I, 595 = Lockett 3293 this coin; Ryan -; Schneider I, 808-812 this m.m. unrepresented; Brown & Comber G29; North 2009; Spink 2535A), flashed but lustrous, otherwise near extremely fine, the anchor mintmark of the highest rarity for this denomination, in NGC 'Horace Hird' holder, graded MS64 (Cert. #6135299-029)

Provenance
A Lost Parcel from the Celebrated Horace Hird Collection
R C Lockett, Part III, Glendining, 4-5 November 1958, lot 3293 - extremely fine and an extremely rare mark - £90.0.0
Alexander Mann, Sotheby's, 29 October 1917, lot 309 - fine, very rare and apparently unpublished with this mint mark - £4.12.0 [Spink]
Thomas Bliss, Sotheby's, 22 March 1916, lot 300 - fine, extremely rare and apparently unpublished - £3.5.0 [Mann]
J G Murdoch, First Portion, Sotheby's, 31 March - 4 April 1903, lot 595 - fine and extremely rare, unpublished - £3.10.0
Arthur Edmund Denis, 16th Viscount Dillon, Sotheby's, 27 June 1892, lot 68 - fine
Sir William Earle Welby-Gregory, 4th Baronet, collection sold, presumably to pay for the renovations at Denton Hall, 1879-1883
~ thence by descent ~
Denton Hall Collection, Grantham, Lincolnshire
Sir William Earle Welby, 2nd Baronet Denton, published the family history in 1842 (died 1852)


Brown and Comber record ZERO instances of this privy mark for denomination as listed in the Spink Numismatic Circular and Seaby Bulletin between 1937 and 1983. Challis records the mint output for this Pyx Period at £14,098 for Crown Gold.

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Sold for
£42,000

Starting price
£5000