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Auction: 21064 - The Horace Hird Collection of Tudor, Stuart and Commonwealth Coins and Patterns
Lot: 37

MS61 | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Third 'Restoration' Coinage, Sixth Issue [Crown Gold], Pound Sovereign [of 20-Shillings], (Pyx Period: 1 May 1600 - 20 May 1601), Tower, (m.m.) ELIZABETH • D .' G .' ANG .' FRA .' ET • HIB .' REGINA • crowned and elaborately decorated bust 8A left, rev. (m.m.) SCVTVM • FIDEI • PROTEGET • EAM •, crowned square-topped and lightly garnished shield dividing E-R, 11.09g [171.2grns], 5h, m.m. O [small size cypher] (HCN 144; Brown & Comber F22; Lockett 1984 = Hird [1961], 48 = Schneider II, 804; North 2008; Spink 2534), flashed with some surface marks behind bust, otherwise on a neat round flan, a really bold very fine with hints of residual reddish tone in recesses, in NGC 'Horace Hird' holder, graded MS61 (Cert. #6135299-037)

Provenance
A Lost Parcel from the Celebrated Horace Hird Collection


Brown and Comber record thirty-four 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 £26,477 for Crown Gold.

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Sold for
£29,000

Starting price
£3000