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Auction: 21064 - The Horace Hird Collection of Tudor, Stuart and Commonwealth Coins and Patterns
Lot: 43

AU Details | Henry VIII (1509-1547), Third Coinage, Type IIb, [20ct. Fineness], Small Module, Sovereign [of 20-Shillings], (June 1545 - April 1547), Southwark, (E) hEnRIC .' 8 .' DI .' GRA .' AGL .' FRAnCIE '. Z '. hIB '. REX .' double sleeve or 'hook' stops, mature Holbeinesque portrait of King holding orb and sceptre, seated on throne, very fine latice work and pellet backing, flanked by pillars, Tudor Rose below, rev. (m.m.) ihS : AVTEM : TRAnSIEnS : PER : MEDIVM : ILLOR : IBAT, double trefoil stops, crowned Royal shield flanked by supporters, HR in cartouche below, 12.19g [188.5grns], 11h, m.m. E/S (HCN 18; Whitton 14 this coin, dies F/ff; Schneider I, - [cf. 611]; North 1825; Spink 2291), some very faint parallel scoring across bust, otherwise with attractive reddish tone and unusually uniform for strike, a bold very fine, presumed UNIQUE, in NGC 'Horace Hird' holder, graded AU Details ~ Obverse Scratched (Cert. #6135299-043)

Provenance
A Lost Parcel from the Celebrated Horace Hird Collection
Whitton [BNJ, 1949], pp. 75-76, no. 14 this coin
'The following is a list of fourteen London Sovereigns of types I and II, all from the British Museum save not. 2, 8 and 14. No. 2 is in the collection of Dr E C Carter, no. 8 in the Ashmolean Museum, both showing reverse dies absent from the National Collection, while no. 14, a recent discovery with obverse i.m. E, reverse S (also two new dies) formed lot 77 in the Shand sale (Glendining, March 1949), where it was misdescribed in the catalogue. The obverse dies are described by capital letters A, B, C, D, E, and F and the reverse dies by small letters a, aa, b, c, d, e, ee, f, ff, and g.'
BNS, Ordinary Meeting: 25 May 1949:
'By the President on behalf of Mr. H. Hird: Cast on an unpublished sovereign of the last coinage of Henry VIII, with obverse i.m. Lombardic E, reverse S. The stops on obverse are 'sleeves' which Brooke calls "hooks", and on the reverse trefoils. This coin forms the long-looked-for complement to the sovereign in the B.M. which has obv. i.m. S and rev. Lombardic E. The reverse die of the new coin also, with i.m. S, is new, previously all S coins known were found to be struck from the same pair of dies.
F J Shand, Glendining, March 1949, lot 77


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