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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 111

Henry VIII, Posthumous Issues, temp. Edward VI, Testoon, 1547-1551, Bristol Castle, (Under-Treasurer William Sharrington), (m.m.) hENRIC? 8 ? D .' [trefoil] G .' ANG[L .' F]RA '. Z : hIB .' [trefoil] REX, Roman lettering, crowned 'Holbeinesque' bust facing, rev. (m.m.) CIVITAS BRISTOLIE crowned Tudor rose, flanked by crowned cypher, 7.300g [112.656grns], 12h, m.m. WS (Hawkins -; North 1843; S.2368), on a most pleasingly neat round flan, with minor striking fissures to edge, otherwise superbly struck up for type with a fearsome Holbeinesque portrait, a really pleasingly bold very fine, very rare in this excellent grade

Provenance

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

Acquired privately, by April 1913

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