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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 481

Edward IV, First Reign (1461-1470), Light Coinage, Type VII, Half-Ryal, 1466-1469, Tower, EDWARD DEI x GRA x REX x AnGL Z FRAnC x, saltire stops, King standing in ship, holding sword and shield, E on standard, ropes 3/1, quatrefoils 3/3, ornaments 1- | -1, rev. (i.m.) DOMINE * NE * IN hVRORE * TVO : ARGVAS : ME [sic], double trefoil stops, ornate cross fleury, crowned leopards in angles, 3.87g [59.7grns], i.m. crown (BM 2021T974 = PAS NARC-0F0A9A, no. 3 this coin; Isladulcie 88; Schneider I, 385/-; North 1534; Spink 1959), very minor traces of stubble rash and crimping, otherwise boldly struck up on a fuller flan, minor scuffs to portrait from soil extraction, otherwise a really pleasingly bold very fine, scarce 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
£3,000

Starting price
£2600