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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 118

(x) NGC XF | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Second 'Restoration' Coinage, Sixth Issue, Double Rose Noble of 30-Shillings or Fine Sovereign, 20 April 1584 - 13 February 1585, Tower, ELIZABETH : D .' G .' ANG .' | FRA '. ET : HIB '. RE[G]INA : (m.m.) : Queen seated on ornamented throne, adorned with fine lattice work enclosing pellets, pillars decorated with five larger pellets, holding orb and sceptre, portcullis with chains below, breaking ornate tressure, rev. (m.m.) • A • DNO '• FACTV •' EST • ISTVD • ET • EST • MIRAB'.IN.OCVLIS.NRS • Royal arms in centre of full-blown Tudor Rose, 15.224g [234.94grns], 5h, m.m. A (Brown & Comber A9; Holloway 07-06; HCN 77 = Hird IV, 45 same dies; Lockett 4088 = Schneider I, 778 same dies; North 2003; S.2529), a small pin hole in the Queen's crown, and a split radiating from crimping at 10 o'clock, otherwise on a neater, round flan, the portrait more softly struck, the peripheries bolder, fine to very fine thus, the reverse die struck from the same as the next, albeit in unaltered state, in NGC Black 'Pallas' holder, graded Extremely Fine (Cert. #8534311-002)

Provenance

The "Pallas" Collection of English Coins


Seaby, by private treaty (ref. 770942), 29 June 1977 - £1,300


Lord Cunliffe, collection purchased en bloc by Seaby, 1977 - £700



https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/8534311-002/NGCDetails/

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Sold for
£9,500

Starting price
£3000