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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 124

Edward VI (1547-1553), Third Period, Fine Silver Issue, 'Horseman' Crown, 1551, Tower, struck after 1 October 1551 when Sir John Yorke had retired the Mint at Southwark House and returned to the Tower with fellow Under-Treasurer Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, (m.m.) : EDVVARD ' : VI : D ': G ': AGL ': FRAnCi '. Z : hiB ': REX : : 'Boy King' in armour, resting sword on right shoulder, feet in stirrups with protruding spurs, riding Berber horse dressed in caparison and crupper, curvetting right, rev. (m.m.) : POSVI DEVM .' A DIVTORE ': MEV :, square-topped shield over long cross fourchée, 30.808g [475.44grns], 10h, m.m. tun (Lingford Z-13; North 1933; S.2478), historically wiped rubbed, with traces of doubling in legends and metal flawing before head, otherwise with a richer cabinet tone on a rounder flan, strictly good fine / about very fine, but an extremely rare 'true' date-pyx mark combination with an exemplary pedigree through the Montagu, Stewart Thorburn, Mason and Wakeford Cabinets and its official documentation by Edward Hawkins in 1876

Provenance

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

Acquired from Messrs Spink & Son, 10 February 1898 - £3.0.0

Spink Numismatic Circular, February 1898, (P.2604, no. 43153) - “1551. Mm. ton. Type as before. FRANQI’.Z: hIB’: &c. Rev. As last but reads MEV': A mint-mark for this date of excessive rarity : this piece was formerly in the Wakeford and Thorburn cabinets from whom it passed into the late Mr Montagu’s possession. Very fine for the piece. V.F." - £3.0.0

Spink Numismatic Circular, May 1897 (P.2239, no. 38746) - “1551. Mm. ton. Similar type. exceedingly rare with this mintmark. From the Thorburn collection, rev. V.F., RRR. F "- £3.0.0

Hyman Montagu, Second Portion, Sotheby’s, 11 May 1896, lot 839 - "Crown, 1551, m. m. tun on both sides, same as the last coin in type and legends, but date below horse 1551, fine and an exceedingly rare date of this mint mark" - £1.2.0 [Spink]

William John Webster, by private treaty with Hyman Montagu

Major W. Stewart Thorburn, Sotheby’s, 6 July 1887, lot 81 - "Crown, usual type, Rud. pi. x, n. 1, m.m. tun, 1551, very rare" - £2.4.0 [Webster]

James Johnston Mason, by selective private treaty with Major Thorburn, by June 1884

George Wakeford (of Maidstone, Kent), Sotheby’s, 18-20 November 1879, lot 120 [and Frontispiece] - "Crown, same date and type, but m.m. ton, fine and extra rare, perhaps unique, published from this piece in Hks, 2nd ed. p. 290" - £2.10.0 [Mason]

~ Edward Hawkins, Second Edition, The Silver Coins of England (1876), p. 290 - …“Or Ton for Throgmorton. Mr. G. Wakeford…”~



Besides iconography and heraldry, perhaps the most familiar animal to the Tudor household was the horse. In 1514, Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua and legendary Italian horsebreeder sent King Henry VIII four Berber horses

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Sold for
£2,800

Starting price
£5