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Auction: 24004 - British and World Coins and Medals Spring Auction
Lot: 111

Edward VI (1547-1553), Third Coinage, Fine Silver Issue, 'Sovereign' Type, Penny, 1551-1553, Tower, E : D : G : ROSA : SINE : SPI, King enthroned facing, rev. CIVI-TAS LON-DON in angles divided by square-topped shield over long cross fourchée, m.m. tun, 0.62g [9.6grns], 6h (Shuttlewood 278; North 1942; Spink 2487), a crimped and wavy flan, antique scratches across portrait in an evident attempt at religious iconoclasm, otherwise full and round, struck details a bolder fine / near very fine, and OF THE HIGHEST RARITY, the first handled in these rooms since the Shuttlewood dispersals in 2001

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Sold for
£4,200

Starting price
£700