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Auction: 22004 - The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck and Simon English Esq. Collections of English Hammered and Milled Coins
Lot: 166

The Lost Collection of Simon English Esq. | Edward IV, First Reign (1461-1470), Light Coinage, Quarter-Ryal, 1467-1468, Type VIII, London, (m.m.) EDWARD * DI * GRA * REX * ANGL' * Z * FR, trefoil stops, Royal shield in quatrefoil, E above, rose to left, sun to right, lys below, rev. EXALTABITVR (lys) in (lys) GLORIA, lys stops, ornate cross fleury, leopards in angles, 1.96g [30.2grns], 8h, m.m. crown over sun [both sides] (Blunt & Whitton VIII [1945, Pl. X, no. 9 this coin]; Webb-Ware dies 17/31; Shepherd 178 = Montagu 590* = Roth 217 = Lockett 3131* = Schneider I, 414 same dies; Ryan 96 same dies; North 1560; Spink 1965), some peripheral striking softness, otherwise delightful and lustrous surfaces, a really pleasingly good very fine, much as issued, rare in this honest, original state

Provenance
The Lost Collection of Simon English Esq.
Pickard, by private treaty, 1965 - £140.0.0
G V Doubleday, Glendining, 20 November 1961, lot 59*
Dr Ernest Christison Carter, collection dispersed by Baldwin from 1950 - £8.0.0


Regrettably the Montagu provenance reported by Doubleday is not correct on account of that coin being accessioned into the Schneider collection via the Roth (1917, lot 217) and Lockett (1958, lot 3131) dispersals.

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