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Auction: 22109 - The David Hoover Collection of Crowns: 1551-1953
Lot: 2008

(x) PCGS XF45 | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Seventh Coinage, Crown, 1601, Tower, ELIZABETH D G ANG FRA ET HIBER REGINA : 1 :, crowned and ornate bust left, holding sceptre pointing to I, rev. : 1 : POSVI : DEVM : AD IVTOREM : MEVM :, garnished and square topped shield over cross fourchée, 29.77g, 11h, m.m. 1 (BCW 1-1/1-a2; Cooper D/6; North 2012; Spink 2582), distracting stress marks, otherwise toned, struck details very fine or marginally better, presented with an historic 17th Century provenance back to a 'Father of English Numismatics', in PCGS holder, graded XF45 (Cert. #34949201)

Provenance
Stacks Bowers, NYINC, 11 January 2019, lot 40302 - $4,000
Heritage, ANA Signature 3066, 17 August 2018, lot 30252 [unsold]
Archbishop Sharp, Morton and Eden 91, 7 December 2017, lot 229 - £2,600



https://www.pcgs.com/cert/34949201



Once owned by Dr. John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York, who pioneered the collecting of British coins at a time when Ancient Greek and Roman coins dominated in popularity. His passion for them ultimately led him to pen his "Observations on the Coinage of England", which would circulate in manuscript form among collectors for about a century until it was finally printed in 1785. After his passing, the collection was passed through the generations until the 1960s, at which point it was dispersed through a number of auctions as well as privately through A.H. Baldwin & Sons and Owen Parsons of Gloucester. The latest installment appeared via Morton & Eden in 2017.

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Sold for
£3,000

Starting price
£2700