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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 168

Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Seventh Issue, Sixpence, 1602, Tower, 1 : ELIZAB .' D .' G .' ANG .' FR .' ET • HIB .' REGI .' beaded inner circles, larger crowned and draped bust 6C left, large rose with stamen filaments behind, rev. 1 : POSVI DEV .' AD-IVTORE-M • MEV .' beaded inner circles, square-topped shield over long cross fourchée, large 16-02 above shield, 2.668g, 7h, m.m. 1 (BCW 1-1/1-c; North 2015; S.2585), an historic scratch before nose to top of crown, otherwise colourfully retoned with some edge raggedness, very fine / fine or marginally bolder, the portrait most pleasingly uniform, a very rare calendar year - pyx-mark muling, and struck in Gloriana's last full Regnal year on the throne

Provenance

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

Acquired from Messrs Spink & Son, 4 February 1899 - £0.4.0

Spink Numismatic Circular, February 1899 (P.3234, no. 51837) - "1601 [sic], m.m. 1, scarce, fine" - £0.4.0


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