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Auction: 22004 - The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck and Simon English Esq. Collections of English Hammered and Milled Coins
Lot: 131

(x) The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck Collection of Numismatic Portraits from Medieval Flanders and Tudor England | Edward VI (1547-1553), Second Period, Second Issue, Half-Sovereign, 12 April 1549 - April 1550, Southwark, (m.m.) EDWARD .' VI : D : G : AGL '. FRA '. Z : HIB : REX, young crowned bust right, with decorated breast armour, lozenge stops, rev. (m.m.) SCVTVM * FIDEI * PROTEGET * EVM, crowned oval garnished shield, dividing E-R, rosette stops, 5.33g [82.0grns], 8h, m.m. Y (Rashleigh [1953], 30 same dies; Lockett 1869 same dies; Schneider I, - [cf. 687]; North 1911; Spink 2438), on an irregular flan, very lightly crimped with a metal flaw before face, otherwise a most attractively uniform portrait of the 'Boy King', considerably above average for issue, a pleasingly good very fine / very fine and rare thus

Provenance
Spink 164, 23 July 2003, lot 405


There are two distinct portraits on Edward VI crowned bust half-sovereigns, Potter, BNJ 1962 pp.135-6. The first is a 'baby-faced' portrait similar to the uncrowned half-sovereigns, with a prominent rounded forehead and plain breast armour. The second is an older, more angular portrait with a smaller ear set lower on the head and decorated breast armour. Both varieties were struck at the Southwark mint, though the second is not represented at mintmark level in the Schneider collection.

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Sold for
£7,500

Starting price
£4000