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Auction: 22004 - The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck and Simon English Esq. Collections of English Hammered and Milled Coins
Lot: 12

Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Third 'Restoration' Coinage, Sixth Issue, Gold Crown, 1 May 1600 - 20 May 1601, Tower, (m.m.) ELIZAB '• D '. G '. ANG •' FR •' ET • HI REGINA • crowned and elaborately decorated bust 8C left, rev. (m.m.) SCVTVM • FIDEI • PROTEGET • EA '• crowned square-topped and lightly garnished shield dividing E-R, 2.83g [43.6grns], 9h, m.m. O [small size cypher] (AHH Virtual 145 this coin; Brown & Comber H22; Schneider I, 815; North 2010; Spink 2536), die wear to high points, otherwise on a full round flan, lightly toned a pleasing very fine, very rare and with an important pedigree

Provenance
Thomas H Law, Stack's, Bowers and Ponterio 176, 13 August 2013, lot 20116
Alderman Horace Hird, Part I, Sotheby's, 30-31 May 1961, lot 57 - nearly extremely fine and very rare - £92.0.0

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Estimate
£10,000 to £12,000

Starting price
£9750