Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 121
(x) NGC AU55 | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Seventh Issue, Crown, 1601, Tower, ELIZABETH : D .' G .' ANG .' FRA .' ET : HIBER .' REGINA : (m.m.) :, crowned half-length bust left, wearing decorated dress and wide ruff, holding orb and sceptre, rev. : (m.m.) : POSVI : DEVM : ADIVTOREM : MEVM :, square-topped shield over long cross fourchée, 29.90g [461.43grns], 6h, m.m. 1 (North 2012; S.2582), minor metal stressing as is common for type and a small contact mark before the sceptre, nonetheless a most pleasing strike, especially to the portrait, thus better than commonly encountered, with a pleasing blue tone and light lustre to uniformly dark-grey surfaces, an attractive good very fine, in NGC holder, graded AU55 (Cert. #8222371-001)
Provenance
Baldwin's, Fixed Price List, Summer 2015, BH029 [C167005330]
https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/8222371-001/55/
Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Sold for
£6,000
Starting price
£3200