Previous Lot Next Lot

Auction: 23129 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 33: British and World Coins - e-Auction
Lot: 9874

Selection of Elizabethan Silver (7) | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Second Issue, Shilling, 1560-1561, Tower, crowned bust 3C left, rev. square-topped shield over long cross fourchée, 12h, 5.38g, m.m. martlet, (North 1985; Spink 2555), cleaned and with excavation scratch across the bust, chipped and with separate fragment, fine, better in parts; Third and Fourth Issues, Sixpence, 1561, large crowned bust 3D left, 7h, 2.77g, m.m pheon (North 1997; Spink 2559); Sixpence, 1561, small crowned bust 1F, 10h, 2.99g, m.m pheon (North 1997; Spink 2560); Sixpence 1564, Tower, large crowned bust 3E left, 2.85g, m.m pheon (North 1997; Spink 2561B); Sixpence, 1565, Tower, intermediate crowned bust 4B left, 6h, 2.32g, m.m rose (North 1997; Spink 2561B); Sixpence, 1567, Tower, intermediate crowned bust 4B left, 3h, 2.69g, m.m coronet (North 1997; Spink 2565); Seventh Issue, Sixpence, 1601, crowned bust left, 11h, 2.56g, m.m 1, (North 2015; Spink 2585), the Sixpences field finds and thus lightly pitted or scratched, mostly flat to the portraits, fine, nevertheless the third lightly bent and bright yet a pleasing portrait, very fine (7)

Provenance

i) Found 27 December 2019, Vet's Field, Eastern End, with an accompanying note: 'The small fragment was found separately in the same area on Dec. 10th, 2021, two years after finding the main body of the coin on Dec 27th, 2019. The fragment, at the time, was correctly identified as that of an Elizabethan shilling!'

ii) Found 4 April 2008, Manor Field, Wrogby(?)

iii) Found 2 September 2019, Vet's Field, eastern end

iv) Found 26 June 2012, Broad Heath, 'Roger's Field'

v) Found 26 January 2008, Coppenhall

vi) Found 21 August 2018, Vet's Field, strip at eastern end

vii) Found 10 March 2012, Grimston Road, Peddar's Way


Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Estimate

Starting price
£100