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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 97

NGC AU55 | *Top Pop* | Henry VIII († 28 January 1547), Posthumous Issue, under Edward VI, Half-Sovereign, Tower II, HENRIC 8 . DEI . GRA '. AGL .' FRA .' Z . HIB .' REX, lozenge stops, King enthroned, holding orb and sceptre, rose at feet, rev. IHS · AVTEM · TRANSIENS · PERMEDI · ILLOR · IBAT · lozenge stops, crowned square-topped shield flanked by supporters, K below, 6.07g [93.67grns], 11h, no m.m. (Schneider I, 656; North 1865; S.2392), modest flan splits at 4 and 6 o'clock, the usual sporadic striking softness for issue, approaching very fine and rather wholesome, in NGC holder, graded AU55 *Top Pop* (Cert. #8534300-001) [*Single Finest Certified*]

Provenance

Spink, by private treaty, November 1976 [with ticket]

SCMB, May 1954, G642 - good VF, RR - £12.10.0 [with ticket]

V. J. E. Ryan, Glendining, 28 June 1950, lot 208 - very fine and rare - £8.0.0 [Seaby]



https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/8534300-001/55/

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Sold for
£3,800

Starting price
£2000