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Auction: 22004 - The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck and Simon English Esq. Collections of English Hammered and Milled Coins
Lot: 167

The Lost Collection of Simon English Esq. | Edward IV, First Reign (1461-1470), Light Coinage, Half-Ryal, c. 1465-1466, Type VI, Bristol, ED | WARD * DI * GRA * REX * ANGL * S * FRANC, trefoil stops, King standing in ship, holding sword and shield, E on standard, B in waves below, ropes 3/1, quatrefoils 3/3, ornaments 1- | -1, rev. DOMINE * NE * INFVRORE * TVO : ARGVS : ME [sic], trefoil stops, reading ARGVS and flanked by double trefoil stops, ornate cross fleury, crowned leopards in angles, 3.73g [57.6grns], 8h, p.m. rose and sun [on reverse only] (Blunt & Whitton VI [Pl. XI, no. 7]; Webb Ware dies 1/1; Marsham 342 same dies; Drabble 115; Ryan 78 same dies; Lockett 3130 this coin; cf. Schneider I, 420; North 1555; Spink 1960), the faintest hint of a crease through shield, otherwise a uniform striking on a slightly elliptical flan, a handsomely bold very fine, very rare, especially with the double pyx mark

Provenance
The Lost Collection of Simon English Esq.
Charles Dabney-Thompson, collection sold by Spink, 15 October 1965 - £250.0.0
Lockett, Part III, Glendining, 4-6 November 1958, lot 3130* - very fine and very rare - £72.0.0 [Spink for Dabney-Thompson]

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Sold for
£5,200

Starting price
£2500