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Auction: 22096 - The "St Albans" Collection of English Gold Coins
Lot: 8

The St. Albans Collection of English Gold Coins | NGC AU Details | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Second 'Restoration' Coinage, Sixth Issue, Fine Gold [.995 Fine], "Double Rose Noble" or Fine Sovereign of 30-Shillings, 1 February 1592 - 8 May 1594, Tower, ELIZABETH • D .' G .' ANG .' | FRA .' ET • HIB •' REGINA • (m.m.), Queen seated on ornamented throne with fine latice work and pellet backing, holding orb and sceptre, flanked by pellet adorned pillars, Portcullis below atop ornate tressure through which it and only her crown breaks, rev. (m.m.) A '• DNO '• FACTV .' EST • ISTVD ET • EST • MIRAB •' IN • OCVL •' NRS .' Royal Shield set atop Tudor Rose, spandrels plain, 15.32g, m.m. tun (Brown and Comber A26 [Type i b]; Holloway 18-25; Schneider 783, {same obverse die}; North 2003; Spink 2529), subtle smoothing to edges, otherwise bright and residually lustrous, slight striking softness to most raised devices, otherwise a well balanced coin with pleasing finer details, the portrait very fine, the environs better still, only nine examples recorded with this die pairing in Holloway's extensive corpus, rare thus, with NGC 'St Albans' holder, graded, AU-Details ~ Repaired (#6295553-008)

Provenance
'A Distinguished Collection', purchased en bloc via Spink, August 2018

R Richardson, Summer FPL, 2011, no. 57 - "with a sharp portrait of the Queen and a very handsome piece, near extremely fine / good very fine" - £19,500

R Strauss, Sotheby's, 26 May 1994, lot 79 - sometime cleaned and with one or two old file-marks on edge, fine to very fine

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Sold for
£22,000

Starting price
£9000