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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 480

Edward IV, First Reign (1461-1470), Light Coinage, Type VII, Ryal or Rose Noble, 1466-1469, Tower, ED/WARD DI GRA REX ANGL S FRAnC DnS IB, trefoil stops, King standing in ship, holding sword and shield, rose on decking, E on standard beside, rev. (i.m.) IhC AVT TRAnSIEnS REX mEDIVm ILLORVm I BAT, rose-atop radiant sun over floriated cross, crowns and leopards in angles, large fleurs in spandrels, 7.70g [118.8grns], 9h, i.m. crown (BM 2021T974 = PAS NARC-0F0A9A, no. 1 this coin; Blunt & Whitton, type VII; cf. Schneider I, cf. 358ff; North 1549; Spink 1950), slightly creased and doubled in the strike from a rusted obverse die, otherwise residually lustrous on a pleasingly broad round flan, a bolder very fine / good very fine and with an interesting pedigree

Provenance

~ Found near Claybrooke, Harborough District (Leicestershire), as part of a scattered hoard, between July and October 2021 ~

Reported to the British Museum and Disclaimed as Treasure (BM 2021T974 = PAS NARC-0F0A9A)



As part of Spink auction 215, on 4 December 2012, lot 37 - a Richard III Angel, type 2b - was offered in these rooms. As the findspot was in the proximity of the famous engagement at Bosworth Field, not only was the record result predictable, but susbsequently commemorated in the commissioning of Spink 'key rings'. As a single find (PAS LEIC-E209C1) it was not considered as part of the Treasure Act. However the subsequent discovery of these three new coins almost a decade later strongly indicates that these four were all once part of the same related and now officially disclaimed trove.

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Sold for
£5,000

Starting price
£4500