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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 482

Edward IV, Second Reign (1471-1483), Type XXI, Angel, 1480-1483, Tower, (i.m.) EDWARD x DEI x GRA x REX ANGL. S FRANC, saltire stops, St Michael vanquishing the Dragon, rev. (i.m.) PER x CRVCE x TVA x SALVA x NOS x XPE' REDEMPT, saltire stops, ship surmounted by square-topped shield and mast dividing E and Rose, m.m. pierced cross and pellet, 5.07g [78.2grns], 9h (BM 2021T974 = PAS NARC-0F0A9A no. 2 this coin; Schneider I, 465; North 1626; Spink 2091), minor traces of doubling to legend and subtle crimping to peripheries of flan, otherwise an attractively broad striking on a full flan, the key devices pleasingly bold and uniform, good very fine, scarce thus 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