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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 471

Richard II (1377-1399), Type IVa, Noble, London, RIC | ARD . DI . GRA . REX . ANGL . Z : FRANC .' DnS .' hIB ' Z . AQT, saltire stops, King in shop holding a sword and shield, scallop on rudder, trefoil by shield, rev. (m.m) IhC .' AVTEM : TRANSIENS : PER : MEDIV : ILLORVM: IBAT, saltire stops, ornate cross, lion and crown in each angle, all within tressure, trefoils in spandrels, R at centre, 7.80g [120.4grns], 10h, m.m. cross pattee (Stewartby IVa2; Schneider I, 158/-; Webb-Ware 4a; North 1304; Spink 1658), struck soft on portrait and to neighbouring rigging, with toning spots in decking, otherwise a most attractive example with much residual flaring, a really good very fine and much as issued, a wholesome, honest rarity

Provenance

Lord Stewartby, Part III, Spink 239, 26 September 2016, lot 921

Shirley-Fox, by bequest, 1939 [with this ticket]


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