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Auction: 24005 - The Official Coinex Auction of Ancient, British and World Coins
Lot: 544

NGC MS64 | Edward III (1327-1377), Fourth Coinage, Transitional Period, Noble, 1361, Tower, E x | DWARD ' x DEI 'x GRA 'x REX : ANGL 'x DnS 'x HIBN : Z : AC-Q, saltire stops, saltire before EDWARD, King standing in ship, holding sword and shield (five lys therein, not noted by Lawrence), ornaments 1-11-11-1, ropes 3/3, quatrefoils 4/3, lis 5, rev. IhC x AVTEM x TRANCIENS x P : MEDIVM x ILLORR x' IBAT, additional lys in second quarter, floriate cross, crowned leopards in angles, pellets to corners of central panel, large E at centre, 7.67g [119.6gr], 12h, m.m. cross potent (Kenyon [1884], p. 25, -, cf. no. 20 [Lockett 3976 = East Raynham, no. 68]; Montagu II, 417; Schneider I, 57; LAL, dies Ce/14; Doubleday 165 this coin; North 1222; S.1499), slight shortness of flan and overt softness to King's portrait, nonetheless an overall bolder striking, residually lustrous, strictly very fine / a pleasing very fine, a very scarce variety, in NGC holder, generously graded MS64 (Cert. #8220521-009)

Provenance

The "Estafefette No. 21" Collection of Ancient, English and World Coins

Margaret Amstell, by private treaty, 2 December 1983 [with her ticket]
~ The accompanying invoice reads: 'The reverse of the Transitional Noble is almost EF+ so is the obverse except for the face which is badly struck (not worn), you hardly ever see Transitional nobles' ~

Spink 32, 1 December 1983, lot 409 - 'portrait flat, otherwise very fine and rare' - £520

"Fourteen lots from the Collection formed by Gordon Vincent Doubleday", Glendining, 5 April 1978, lot 7 - "very fine and rare" - £580

G V Doubleday, Glendining, 7 June 1972, lot 165 - "very fine and rare" - £300.0.0 [Spink]

[It is interesting to note that although acquired by Spink, their bid exceeded that of their commission for Herbert Schneider, who had been willing to tender £175 at the time]
L A Lawrence, collection of Edwardian Gold coins acquired en bloc by Doubleday, 1951



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