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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 107

Henry VIII (1509-1547), Third Coinage, Testoon, 1544-1547, Southwark, (m.m.) hEnRIC 'x 8 : D 'x G 'x AGL 'x [FRA 'x Z 'x] hIB 'x REX, Lombardic lettering, crowned 'Holbeinesque' bust facing, rev. (m.m.) *** CIVITAS LONDON ***, crowned Tudor rose, flanked by crowned cypher, 7.732g [119.323grns], 4h, m.m. lombardic S (Hawkins -; North 1842; S.2367), overtly double-struck and with baser patination in fields, otherwise bold and distinctly above average for type, approaching very fine for strike, scarce thus

Provenance

The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection (1870-1941)

Acquired from Messrs Spink & Son, 8 November 1899 - £1.15.0

Spink Numismatic Circular, January 1899 (P.3670, no. 57877) - "obverse somewhat double-struck, rare, very fine" - £1.15.0



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