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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 490

Edward VI (1547-1553), Second Period, Second Issue, Gold Crown, 13 April 1549 - April 1550, Tower, (m.m) EDVVARD : VI · D : G : AGL · FRA : Z : HIB : REX, lozenge stops, crowned and cuirassed bust right, rev. (m.m) SCVTVM : FIDEI . PROTE '. EVM, lozenge stops, crowned and garnished oval shield dividing E-R, 2.52g [38.9grns], 2h, m.m. swan (Schneider I, -; Stewartby 2; North 1914; Spink 2442) crimped and softly struck to portrait as usual for issue, a trace of die clashing in obverse fields, otherwise pleasingly round on a honey-golden flan, the centres scarcely fair, the peripheries good fine to near very fine, an excessively rare mintmark for issue, the only other specimen residing in the National (BM) collection

Provenance

Lord Stewartby, Part III, Spink 239, 26 September 2016, lot 992

Baldwin, by private treaty, May 2003 - a ticket [now lost], noted 'one other (pierced) in the BM'

Christie’s, 20 June 1978, lot 186* - £520

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Estimate
£5,000 to £6,000

Starting price
£4500