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Auction: 23199 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 26: English and World Gold Coins and Medals: Featuring the 'Merry Men' Cache of Victorian Sovereigns - e-Auction
Lot: 6497

Henry VIII (1509-1547), Second Coinage, 'Double Ryal' or Sovereign of 20-Shillings, 1541, New Obverse Die, reads FRANE for FRANC in error, (m.m.) hEnRICVS : DEI : GRACIA x REX | AnGLIE : ET x FRAnE x' DnS hIB', saltire stops, King enthroned, holding sword and sceptre, fretted throne back, the crown with more elaborate leaves and the arch above decorated with small crosses not plain bosses and the ornamental border with fleurs below each chain instead of pellets, rev. (m.m.) IhESUS : AVTEM : TRANSIENS : PER : MEDIVM : ILLORVM : IBAT, Royal shield set on Tudor Rose inside ornate floral tressure, alternating leopards and lys in inner spandrels, plain in outer spandrels, 15.01g. 11h, m.m. lis/arrow (BNJ, 1949 - Whitton pp. 69, no. 17 [dies O2/R7]; Bruun [1925] 549 = Heath [1937] 12 same dies; North 1782; Spink 2267), edges made round where removed from mount, a tiny repair above crown, otherwise bright but residually lustrous, the strike surprisingly uniform and regular with only minor softness to peripheries and below shield, struck details generally better than fine, in some areas approaching very fine, nevertheless an excessively rare die pairing, the only example of this combination to appear at commerce in decades

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